The Annual Sir Peter Hall Lecture: Everyday Urbanism for Planners

Margaret Crawford teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture, urbanism and urban history and studios focusing on small scale urbanity.

Her research focuses on the evolution, uses and meanings of urban space. She has written and edited several books including Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of American Company Towns, The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life and Everyday Urbanism, and, most recently co-edited a four volume compilation on Urbanization in China. She has published numerous articles on shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment. Recent projects include a book investigatingthe rapid physical and social changes in China’s Pearl River Delta and California “ethnoburbs.” She has also taught at SCI-Arc, the Harvard GSD, the University of Southern California, the University of Florence, Italy, and South China University of Technology.  She has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Guggenheim Fellowship, two Fulbright Fellowships to S.China, Quadrant Fellowship, James Marsden Fitch Foundation and Graham Foundation grants.