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Michael Dear

b. 1944

Welsh geographer

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About Michael Dear

Born 1944. Michael Dear is a British landscape architect, urban planner, geographer and university teacher.

Michael James Dear is an urban geographer and educator. He has written several books, including Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. He teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley.

Life and work Dear was born in Treorchy, Wales.

In 1988, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

He worked at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

He currently teaches City and Regional Planning at the College of Environmental Design of the University of California, Berkeley, in the United States (he has been at Berkeley since 2009). He is a fellow of the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences of Stanford University in Stanford, California.

He is a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Publications The Postmodern Urban Condition. Blackwell/Wiley, 2000. . Why Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. Oxford University Press, 2013. . Oxford University Press, 2015. Paperback edition, with new chapter.

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University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship; Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales; Honorary doctorate from McMaster University
Also known as
Michael James Dear, Michael J. Dear

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Michael Dear?

Welsh geographer

When was Michael Dear born?

Michael Dear was born on 8 December 1944 in Treorchy.

What is Michael Dear's occupation?

Michael Dear is a landscape architect, urban planner, geographer and university teacher.

What nationality is Michael Dear?

Michael Dear is British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Michael Dear

· Wikidata: Q28039165

· DBpedia: Michael Dear

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