Michael James Dear is an urban geographer and educator. He has written several books, including Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.[1][2] He teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley.
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Life and work
editDear was born in Treorchy, Wales.[citation needed]
In 1988, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
He worked at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
He currently teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States (he has been at Berkeley since 2009).[4] He is a fellow of the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences of Stanford University in Stanford, California.
He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[5]
Publications
edit- The Postmodern Urban Condition. Blackwell/Wiley, 2000. ISBN 978-0-631-20988-1.
- Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0199897988.
- Oxford University Press, 2015. Paperback edition, with new chapter.
Further reading
edit- McNeill, Donald; Tewdwr-Jones, Mark (2010). "Michael Dear". In Hubbard, Phil; Kitchin, Rob (eds.). Key Thinkers on Space and Place (2nd ed.). Sage. pp. 134–140. ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5.
References
edit- ^ Michael Dear: Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. The Huffington Post. Accessed December 2016.
- ^ Why Walls Won't Work. Oxford University Press.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation". gf.org. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ "Michael-Dear". ced.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-01.
- ^ Professor Michael Dear FLSW. Learned Society of Wales.