Education
Rutherford H. Platt is Professor of Geography Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and also is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Cities, City University of New York (CUNY). He directs the Ecological Cities Project, a program of research and outreach based in Northampton, Massachusetts (www.humanemetropolis.org). Dr. Platt holds a B.A. in political science from Yale and both a J.D. (law) and Ph.D. (geography) from the University of Chicago. He specializes in public policy concerning urban land and water resources. He is author/editor of many publications on cities, nature, and people, most recently: The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st Century City and a companion DVD (University of Massachusetts Press and Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006). In 2002, he was honored as a Lifetime National Associate of The National Academies and he is listed in Who’s Who in America.