Prof. Dr. Peter Marcuse
Peter
Marcuse is a lawyer and planner who teaches urban planning at
Columbia University in New York City. He has been President of the Los Angeles
City Planning Commission and chaired the Housing Committee of a Community Board
in New York City. He has also taught in both West and East Germany, Australia,
the Union of South Africa, Canada, Austria, and Brazil.
He has written
extensively on housing, urban development, the history of planning, the ethics
of planning, and globalization.
His most recent books, with Ronald van Kempen,
Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?, Blackwell, 1999, and Of States and
Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space, 2002, Oxford University Press.
He is
currently much involved in the debates about the redevelopment of lower
Manhattan after the September 11 attacks and the implications of the so-called
“war on terrorism” on urban development globally.
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