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Alex Marshall, an independent journalist in New York City, is the author of How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl and The Roads Not Taken (University of Texas 2001). His articles and columns have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, Metropolis Magazine, The Washington Post, Salon Magazine, George magazine, Architecture, Newsday, The Wilson Quarterly, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications. Marshall was a Loeb Fellow in 1999-2000 at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University, and a bachelor's in Political Economy and Spanish from Carnegie-Mellon University. He is a native of Norfolk, Va and a former staff writer at The Virginian-Pilot.
For the past decade, Marshall has specialized in writing about the affairs, politics, culture and architecture of cities. He has focused on the physical, social and cultural changes that have occurred in cities as technological and economic forces wrench them into new shapes and forms. He has shaken conventional wisdom with his views on everything from New Urbanism, to standard economic remedies, to the role of romance novels. Marshall has been quoted in numerous publications, including The New York Times, the Utne Reader, U.S. News and World Report and The Miami Herald. In addition to his other projects, he is working as a senior editor at The Regional Plan Association in New York. He speaks around the country and in Europe.
[last updated early 2002]