Gary Hack
Professor Emeritus of Urban Design, MIT & University of Pennsylvania

Gary Hack is professor emeritus of urban design at MIT and the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.  From 1996-2008 he served as dean of the School of Design.  He studies, teaches and practices urban design.  He has prepared plans for cities, neighborhoods and developments in over 35 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 and headed the effort of preparing urban design guidelines for the project.  He is the author of Site Planning: International practice, and co-author/editor of Global City Regions: their emerging forms, Urban Design in a Global Perspective, Local Planning Practice, 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 was educated in architecture, obtaining a B.Arch from the University of Manitoba, Canada, 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.