Michael James Dear is an
urban geographer
Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment. Scholars, activists, and the public have ...
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. He teaches City and Regional Planning at the
College of Environmental Design of the
University of California, Berkeley.
Life and work
Dear was born in
Treorchy
Treorchy ( cy, Treorci; ) is a town and community (and electoral ward) in Wales. Once a mining town, it retains such characteristics. Situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf in the Rhondda Fawr valley. Treorchy is also one of the 16 c ...
, Wales.
In 1988, he received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
.
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). He is a fellow of the
Bellagio Center of the
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America, after the Carneg ...
at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, and of the
Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences of
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
in Stanford, California.
He is a fellow of the
Learned Society of Wales.
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''. Oxford University Press, 2013. .
**Oxford University Press, 2015. Paperback edition, with new chapter.
Further reading
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References
See also
*Los Angeles School The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement which emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at UCLA and the University of Southern California
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External links
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Faculty page
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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