Faculty

Educational Credentials :

• Master of City Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007
• MA, Urban Geography, Kings College London, 2004
• BA (honors), Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, 2001

Teaching Experience :

• City College of New York, 2022-present
• Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), 2016-2021

Professional Experience :

• Principal, S/Q Projects, 2010-present
• Founding Editor, Urban Omnibus, 2008-2014
• Planner, Pfeiffer Partners, 2008

Selected Publications and Recent Research :

• Publications:
• “Housing Agency: Legacies of John F. C. Turner” Places Journal, November, 2023.
• “Mass Support: Reconsidering Housing Theorist John Habraken” Places Journal, April 2023.
• “Field Notes on Design Activism” Places Journal, November, 2022.
• “Land Power: A Reassessment of Community Land Trusts,” Places Journal, July 2022.
• Citymakers: the Culture and Craft of Practical Urbanism. New York: Monacelli Press, 2017
• “Istanbul: Who Makes a City?” Stranger’s Guide Issue 8: The Mediterranean, Fall 2020
• “Montage Urbanism: On Essence, Fragment and Increment.” Public Culture Volume 26, Spring 2013. (peer-reviewed)
• “The Field of Struggle, The Office and the Flat: Protest and Aspiration in a Mumbai Slum.” Public Culture Volume 26, Spring 2013. (peer-reviewed)
• Shepard, Cassim. “Sensory Devices.” Landscape Futures, edited by Geoff Manaugh. Actar Press / Nevada Museum of Art
• “The Gwanju River Reading Room.” Essay (co-authored with Taiye Selasi) accompanying an architectural folly designed by David Adjaye for the Gwanju Biennale 2013. Hatje Cantz Press
• “Of Timeshares and Tenements” in Domus, May, 2011
• “On Data and Design.” Next City (formerly Next American City) Spring, 2011 “Postopolis: On Urban Portraiture.” Places. Published July, 2010