Margaret Crawford
History of architecture; urban design and planning; urban history and theory; U.S. built environment studies; urbanism in China.
Margaret Crawford holds degrees in architectural history, housing, and urban planning. Before coming to Berkeley, Crawford chaired the History, Theory, and Humanities Program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles and, from 2000–2009, was professor of urban design and planning theory at the Harvard GSD, teaching history and design workshops and studios. Her scholarly work includes Building the Workingman’s Paradise: The History of American Company Towns, The Car and the City: The Automobile, the Built Environment and Daily Urban Life, and two editions of Everyday Urbanism, along with numerous articles and book chapters on immigrant spatial practices, shopping malls, public space, and other issues in the American built environment. In 2008, Doug Kelbaugh called Everyday Urbanism "one of the three leading paradigms today in urban design." Since 2003, Crawford has been investigating the effects of rapid physical and social changes on villages in China’s Pearl River Delta. She recently co-edited Critical Texts in Chinese Urbanization, a four- volume collection of English-language studies of Chinese urban development. She is currently working on regional design projects in the Salinas Valley.
ARCH 170B Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism from 1750 to the Present
ARCH 219 Listening to the City
ARCH 279X Rethinking Suburban History
ARCH 279X/CY PLAN 290 Histories and Theories of Urban Intervention
ARCH 219 Publics and Their Spaces
ARCH 179 Change and Mobility in the American City
Nansha Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta (with Alan Berger), 2004
Everyday Urbanism (with John Chase and John Kaliski), 2000
Everyday Urbanism, Expanded Version (with John Chase and John Kaliski), 2008
Everyday Urbanism: Margaret Crawford vs. Michael Speaks (Rahul Mehotra, editor), 2005
Building the Workingman's Paradise: The Design of the American Company Town, 1995
"Contesting the Public Realm; Struggles over Public Space in Los Angeles," Journal of Architectural Education, 1995
"On Public Space, Quasi-Public Space and Public Quasi-Space," Modulus, 1995
"Daily Life on the Home Front: Women, Blacks, and the Struggle for Public Housing," in World War II and the American Dream: How Wartime Building Changed A Nation, edited by Donald Albrecht, 1995
"Mi Casa es su Casa: The Politics of Everyday Life in East Los Angeles," Assemblage, 1994
"The World as a Shopping Mall," in Variations on a Theme Park: Scenes from the New American City, edited by Michael Sorkin, 1992
"Can Architects be Socially Responsible?" in Out of Site: A Social Criticism of Architecture, edited by Diane Ghirardo, 1990
