Mr. Campanella teaches and writes about landscapes, urban form and the design of cities. He is associate professor of urban planning and design at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a 2009-2010 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His books include The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008); Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale University Press, 2003); and Cities From the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). Dr. Campanella holds his PhD in urban and landscape history from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MLA from Cornell University. He has taught at MIT, Nanjing University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was a Fulbright fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a recipient of the John Reps Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History and the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.
Paper Abstract: American Curves: The Public Works Legacy of Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano