About the Author
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett is the James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning and professor of public policy at the University of Southern California.The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she holds the Kluge Chair in Modern Culture at the Library of Congress. Her research has been featured in the
New York Times,
Wall Street Journal,
Economist, and
New Yorker. The author of three previous books, she lives in Los Angeles, California. Her website can be found
here.