Gary Hack

Gary Hack is Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and Professor Emeritus of Urban Design at MIT. He studies, teaches and practices urban design. He has prepared plans for cities, neighborhoods and developments in over 50 cities in the US, Canada and Asia. His work includes plans for the redevelopment of Prudential Center in Boston, the transformation of the West Side Waterfront in New York, and other large scale urban development projects. He collaborated on the winning entry in the competition for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center in New York. He is the author of Site Planning: international practice, Global City Regions: their emerging forms, Urban Design in a Global Perspective, and other publications. He has served as the chair of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and has been a member of many design review committees. Professor Hack grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada, and has lived in Boston, Ottawa, Philadelphia and New York for much of his adult life. He was educated in architecture, obtaining a B.Arch from the University of Manitoba and an M.Arch from the University of Illinois, and in city and regional planning, with an MUP from the University of Illinois and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Dalhousie University. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.