Michael Mehaffy
Michael Mehaffy, Ph.D. is a development consultant, planner, designer, author, educator, researcher, and executive director of the International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) conference series as well as the Oregon-based Sustasis Foundation. He was the first Director of Education for The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment in London, and an advisor to the then-Prince of Wales. His education program developed there later evolved into Master’s and Ph.D. programs in sustainable urbanism at the University of Oxford.
Beyond resilience: Toward ‘antifragile’ urbanism
Let’s embrace and empower the collective skill in producing beautiful and well-adapted habitat, which is evident throughout human history.
The emperor's new buildings
A book review of Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism by James Stevens Curl.
Thinking globally, building locally
A gathering in Italy will join new urbanists with international allies to explore and learn from great urbanism past and present.