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Martin H. Krieger

Expert on planning and design, environmental policy, and ethnicity in Los Angeles
  • Professor of Planning, USC Price School of Public Policy
Office: (323) 653-2198
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Expertise

  • theory of planning and design
  • entrepreneurship
  • environmental policy
  • ethics and development
  • technology and planning
  • science and society
  • Los Angeles and ethnicity
  • religion, theology and planning
  • statistics, society and big decisions
  • philosophy of mathematics
  • visual/photographic documentationin urban planning
  • the use of cell phones to record the world
  • sound recording of Los Angeles
  • Paris in photographs

Additional Information

  • Author, Advice and Planning (1981), Marginalism and Discontinuity
    (1989), Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World
    (1992), Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the
    Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena     (1996), Entrepreneurial
    Vocations: Learning from the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers,
    Antigone, Oedipus & Prospero     (1996), What’s Wrong with Plastic
    Trees: Designing Virtual Authenticity     (2000) and Doing Mathematics (2003)
  • Recipient, Mellon Mentoring Awards, for undergrads, grads and colleagues (2005, 2006, 2007)
  • Fellow, American Physical Society