Thomas J. Campanella is associate professor of urban planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a visiting professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He has also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Nanjing University in China and was a Fulbright fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His previous books include Cities From the Sky (2001) and Republic of Shade (2003), winner of the Spiro Kostof Award.