About the Authors
Sabina Shaikh
Sabina Shaikh is a Senior Instructional Professor in the Committee on Environment, Geography and Urbanization (CEGU) and the College at the University of Chicago. She serves as the faculty director of Chicago Studies, and the faculty co-lead of the Environmental Frontiers Initiative at the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation. Her research, funded by the National Science Foundation, Neubauer Collegium and CISSR focuses on connections between environmental change, livelihoods, migration and urbanization in the Mekong basin of Cambodia.
Emily Talen
Emily Talen is Professor of Urbanism at the University of Chicago. Her research is devoted to urban design and the relationship between the built environment and social equity. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. Her books include New Urbanism and American Planning, Design for Diversity, Urban Design Reclaimed, City Rules, and Neighborhood.