Michael Dear

Michael James Dear is an urban geographer. He teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States. 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 has written several books, including Why Walls Won’t Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, which was published by the Oxford University Press in February 2013.[1][2]

Michael Dear
Occupation

Born in Treorchy, Wales, he is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[3] In 1988, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Prior to coming to Berkeley in 2009, Dear had worked at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Further reading
  • 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
  1. Michael Dear: Professor of City and Regional Planning in the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley. The Huffington Post. Accessed December 2016.
  2. Why Walls Won't Work. Oxford University Press.
  3. Professor Michael Dear FLSW

See also
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