Lawrence A. Herzog (Ph.D.), Professor, Graduate Program in City Planning, School of Public Affairs, San Diego State University, San Diego, California.
Herzog is a consultant and writer specializing in planning, sustainable development and urban design in the United States, Mexico and Latin America.
He has written or edited 11 books on urban planning, design and global/cross-border development, including: Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro (Routledge, 2015); From Aztec to High Tech: Architecture and Landscape Across the Mexico-U.S. Border (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999); and Where North Meets South (CMAS/University of Texas Press, 1990. He has published some 50 articles in refereed design, planning, and social science journals. Awards include: Fulbright Scholar (Peru), Senior Fulbright Specialist Award (United Kingdom), the Faculty Monty Award (SDSU); Outstanding International Scholar Award (SDSU), Outstanding Teaching Award (SDSU), the Graham Foundation fellowship in the Fine Arts, as well as the Donald Robertson award (Urban Studies.)
In the countries of Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Italy, the U.K., France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, Herzog has held visiting scholar/professor appointments, and has served as urban/regional planning consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (in Peru and Bolivia), the American Institute of Architects, the U.S. Embassy to Mexico, the Public Policy Institute of California, the California Department of Transportation, the Robert Wood Foundation, and San Diego Dialogue.
He has written over 50 Op-Ed essays, and, won the Society for Professional Journalism Award in 2017 for Op-Ed writing in the San Diego region. He was a TEDx speaker at the U.S.-Mexico TEDxMonumento event on the border in 2015.
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