Thomas J. Campanella
Professor of Urbanism and City Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thomas J. Campanella is a professor of urbanism and city planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. His books include The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolutionand What It Means for the World; Cities From the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America; and Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm, winner of the Spiro Kostof Award. Campanella has received Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships and has held visiting appointments at Columbia University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is currently working on two books for Yale University Press—Brooklyn: A Secret History and Designing the American Century: The Public Landscapes of Clarke and Rapuano. He divides his time between North Carolina and Brooklyn, where he was born and raised.
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