Professor Michael Dear to Speak at Spaces and Flows Conference in Los Angeles

We are pleased to announce that Professor Michael Dear will join us as a plenary speaker at the Spaces and Flows Conference.

Michael Dear is professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and Honorary Professor in the Bartlett School of Planning at University College, London (England). Michael’s current research focuses on comparative urbanism, and the future of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. He was founding editor of the scholarly journal Society and Space: Environment & Planning D, and is a leading exponent of the Los Angeles School of Urbanism. His books include: From Chicago to LA: making sense of urban theory, Postborder City: cultural spaces of Bajalta California, and The Postmodern Urban Condition, which was chosen by CHOICE magazine as an “Outstanding Academic Title” in 2000. His latest edited volume, entitled Geohumanties: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place, will be published in 2010. Michael has been a Guggenheim Fellowship holder, a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and Fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy. He has received the highest honors for creativity and excellence in research from the Association of American Geographers, and numerous undergraduate teaching and graduate mentorship awards.