Margaret Crawford (Harvard University)
Margaret Crawford is Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before joining the faculty of the GSD, she previously taught at several institutions including the Southern California Institute for Architecture, the University of Southern California, and the University of Florence. Her main research interest is in the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. She is the author of Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns (Verso, 1995), which looks at the rise and fall of professionally designed industrial environments. She has also edited The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism (University of Michigan Press, 1992), and has published a number of articles on the American built environment.