Garnette Cadogan

Senior Research Advisor and Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
IASC Fellow Garnette Cadogan is the Tunney Lee Distinguished Lecturer in Urbanism at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. An essayist whose research explores the promise and perils of urban life, the vitality and inequality of cities, and the challenges of pluralism, Cadogan writes about culture and the arts for various publications and was named by the literary magazine Freeman’s as one of 29 writers from around the world who “represent the future of new writing” in 2017. Cadogan was a Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) at MIT and is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. The editor-at-large of Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas (co-edited by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro), he is at work on a book on walking.

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