I am an engineer-economist and planner by training, an urbanist and philosopher of the built environment by vocation. I have taught, written, and worked on large scale urban and regional developments, transportation policy and planning, and civil infrastructure systems analysis, throughout the United States and abroad.  I undertake consulting assignments, formerly through the MATRIX group, a firm I founded in 1985, and now as an independent contractor.  I also work with the Cooperative Research Programs of the Transportation Research Board, U. S. National Academy of Sciences.  I previously served five years as Director of the Academy’s Building Research Board and formerly held senior management positions with PRC Engineering, Inc.; PRC Nigeria, Ltd.; and Alan M. Voorhees & Associates, Inc.  I received my university education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. (A more detailed CV is available here.)
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Recent Posts
- The Origins of Infrastructure
- Performance-Based Infrastructure Management: From Theory to Practice
- Battling Aging Infrastructure, the Enemy Is Us
- Learning to Live with New Infrastructure Technology
- Are We Selling the Future Too Cheap?
- “Sustainability†may be fundamentally unsustainable, but we have a chance
- Addendum on Abuja: Estimating costs
- What’s it worth?—Considering the value of our infrastructure
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