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

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in 2013. He teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the

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Dear was born in

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, Wales. In 1988, he received a

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. He worked at the

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in Los Angeles. He currently teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the

, in the United States (he has been at Berkeley since 2009). He is a fellow of the

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of the

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at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, and of the

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in Stanford, California. He is a fellow of the

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.Professor Michael Dear FLSW. Learned Society of Wales.
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Publications

*''The Postmodern Urban Condition''. Blackwell/Wiley, 2000. . *''Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide''.

, 2013. . **Oxford University Press, 2015. Paperback edition, with new chapter.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dear, Michael Living people Urban geographers UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design faculty 1944 births Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales University of Southern California faculty

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