Serena Alexander, Ph.D. was recently appointed Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Department of Transportation Climate Change Center and the Office of the Under Secretary. She is an associate professor at the department of urban and regional planning at San José State University and a research associate at the Mineta Transportation Institute. Alexander’s research broadly focuses […]
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He was a towering figure in architecture and urbanism, one of the biggest influences on the New Urbanism movement, and the author or principal author of many books, including “A Pattern Language.”
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