Psychologist (Ph.D.), Environmental Designer/Planner, Engineer ("Grandfather" of Environmental Psychology)
Current employment:
Director, International Center for Culture & Environment
Acting Chair, Department of Liberal & Interdisciplinary Studies, Univ. Internacional de Mexico (USIU-Mexico)
Enrique Aragon Distinguished Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Visiting Professor (Anthropology and Geography), University of Illinois, Chicago; (Environmental Studies) Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and U.S. International University, San Diego
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director of Urban Design, KLM Housing Institute, Norman, Oklahoma
Concurrent Appointments, 1990-94
Culpeper Visiting Professor, Mount Holyoke College (1994)
Fulbright Scholar, Centre for Maaori Studies and Research, New Zealand (1994)
Consultant to Shell (U.K.) on Thornton Research Center (1993)
Visiting Professor, of Environ. Studies, Rampo College of New Jersey (1992-93)
Adjunct Professor, Universidad de las Americas (1992)
Invited Senior Research Professor,Div. of Design, Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana - Azcapotzalco, Mexico (1990)
Visit'g Prof. Architecture, Univ. of Auckland, N.Z. (1990)
Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Professor of Urban Planning, Unit. of Wisconsin - Milw. (1982-88)
Visiting Distinguished Professor, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (1986)
Visiting faculty posts:
20 international visiting professorships, 1965-95: USA, Indonesia, Israel, Australia, Turkey, N. Zealand, Scotland, Malaysia, Canada, Brazil
Publications
100+ articles and book chapters, 100+ invited lectures worldwide; Co-editor, "Ethnoscapes" book series (Avebury Press, U.K.); WHO'S WHO IN WORLD; Right Livelihood Prize ("alternative Nobel") nominee, 1987; Partner, Internat. Design Collaborative, Calif., 1973-80; Co-founder, Environmental Design Research Ass'n (1968).
Publications most relevant to initiative:
Image and Environment & Maps in Minds (w/R. Downs: Aldine and Harper & Row, 1973 and 1977);
Environmental Mapping (Open University, U.K., 1975); Placemaking (w/M. Turan) (Avebury, U.K., 1993);
Environmental Psychology: A Communications Approach (Hamilton, N.Z.: University of Waikato, 1994).
Recent articles co-authored with J. M.Blaut.