Michael Mehaffy

Portland

Michael W Mehaffy, Ph.D., is an author, researcher, educator, and practitioner in urban design and strategic urban development, with an international practice based in Portland, Oregon. He has held teaching and/or research appointments at six graduate institutions in five countries, and he is on the editorial boards of two international journals of urban design. He is also on the boards of four NGOs in sustainable development and livability, including the Portland-based Sustasis Foundation, where he is Executive Director, and the London-based International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism, a patronage of the Prince of Wales, where he is Chair of its international body, the INTBAU College of Chapters. Michael is noted for his published research and professional articles on the works of Christopher Alexander, Jane Jacobs, urban morphology, urban self-organization, architecture, computer science, and philosophy.