Thomas J. Campanella

professor of Urbanism and City Planning at Cornell University

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Thomas J. Campanella is a professor of urbanism and city planning at Cornell University. He has held has Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships, and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the James Marston Fitch Foundation. Campanella's books include The Concrete Dragon: China's Urban Revolution and What It Means for the World (Princeton Architectural Press); Cities From the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America (Princeton Architectural Press); and Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale University Press), winner of the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.
He also co-edited The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover From Disaster (Oxford University Press) with Lawrence J. Vale. He divides his time between Ithaca and the Marine Park neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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