About the author: Peter Bosselmann
Peter Bosselmann is professor of urban design at the University of California,
Berkeley. International teaching positions include universities in Europe,
Australia, and Asia. He directed design workshops in China, Vietnam, Mexico,
Italy, and France and was commissioned to work on urban design plans in
San Francisco, New York, Toronto, and Tokyo. In 2007 he established an urban
research laboratory in Milan, the fourth such laboratory that he modeled after
the well-known Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory. His previous
publications include the 1997 book Representation of Places.