Alan M. Berger
Tenured Associate Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at MIT;
Co-Director, MIT Landscape+Urbanism Program;
Director, P-REX Lab
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Project for Reclamation Excellence
Harvard University Center for the Environment
Office: MIT Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, 10-485
Cambridge
Email: aberger@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/aberger/www/
Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning, Urban Design; Transportation, Energy, and Future Mobility, Reclamation and Reuse of Brownfields and Superfund Sites; Geospatial Mapping, Analysis, and Aerial Reconnaissance of Landscape Externalities.
Books
Systemic Design Can Change The World. SUN Architecture: Netherlands ISBN 9789085068761, 62 pages / 210 x 210 mm, paperback, full color, 2009
Landscape + Urbanism Around The Bay Of Mumbai. M.I.T. School of Architecture + Planning, produced in collaboration with the Urban Design Research Institute (U.D.R.I.), Mumbai, India. ISBN 81-901974-8-7, 243 pages, full color, paperback, 2010 Alan Berger, Rahul Mehrotra (editors) With original Essays by Alan Berger and Rahul Mehrotra
Designing The Reclaimed Landscape. Taylor & Francis: New York/London ISBN: 10: 0-415-77303-2 167 pages, 29 color plates, hardcover. January 1, 2008 Edited by Alan Berger
Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America. Princeton Architectural Press: New York ISBN: 156898572X 256 pages, 165 four-color plates, hardcover, June 2006 I.D. Magazine’s 53rd Annual Design Review, Silver Medal for Design Distinction, Planetizen top 10 planning books of 2007
Other Publications
Berger, A. and Brown, C. (2012). "A New Systemic Nature For Mussolini's Landscape Urbanism" in DIRT, edited by M. Born, H. Furján, and L. Jencks, with P. M. Crosby. Philadelphia: PennDesign; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012, pp. 252-261
"The Challenge of Degraded Environments: How Common Biases Impair Effective Policy” with Richard Zeckhauser, Case Brown, and Carolyn Kousky, in Risk Analysis, Society for Risk Analysis Journal, 2010. Perspective, pp 2-11.
“Bringing Hypoxic Dead Zones Back To Life”, by Marcia Stepanek, August 3, 2009, in POP!TECH
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