Peter Marcuse
Peter Marcuse (born November 13, 1928 in Berlin) is a German-American lawyer and professor emeritus of urban planning.[1]
Marcuse holds a JD from Yale Law School (1952) and a PhD from UC Berkeley in City and Regional Planning (1972). He was a professor of urban planning at UCLA from 1972 until 1975 and at Columbia University from 1975 to 2003. He has written extensively on the right to the city and the Occupy movement.[2][3]
Marcuse is the son of philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. He has three children with his wife Frances Bessler: novelist Irene Marcuse (born 1953), UC Santa Barbara history professor Harold Marcuse (born 1957), and Andrew Marcuse (born 1965).
Books and publications
- Peter Marcuse (1991). Missing Marx: A Personal and Political Journal of a Year in East Germany, 1989-1990. Monthly Review Press. ISBN 0853458278.
- Peter Marcuse (2002). Of States and Cities: The Partitioning of Urban Space. Oxford University Press. ISBN 019829719X.
- Peter Marcuse (2011). Cities for People Not for Profit: Critical Urban Theory. Taylor and Francis.
References
- ↑ http://www.arch.columbia.edu/about/people/pm35columbiaedu Retrieved January 29, 2013
- ↑ http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-07/occupy-movement-targets-home-evictions-in-u-s-day-of-action.html Retrieved January 29, 2013
- ↑ http://www.salon.com/2011/11/16/liberty_park_can_be_anywhere/singleton/ Retrieved January 29, 2013
External links
- Peter Marcuse's personal page at marcuse.org.
- Critical planning and other thoughts Peter Marcuse's blog.