Sigurd Grava
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Sigurd "Sig" Grava (September 25, 1934 – 2009[citation needed]) was an American scholar, professor emeritus, member of the faculty of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, from 1960, as a professor of Urban Planning.[1]
Grava was born on September 25, 1934 in Riga in Latvia.[2] He attended City College, New York, graduating in 1955, and then did his master's degree (1957) and Ph.D. (1965) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University,[1][2] and was a member of the Urban Planning faculty of this school from 1960.[2] He served as Chairman of the Columbia University Architecture School's Division of Urban Planning from 1970[3] to 1974, and as Director of the Urban Planning Program in 1990–1993.
He published Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control (Columbia University Press; 1969)[4][5][6] and Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities (McGraw-Hill; 2003).[7]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Sigurd Grava. Baker & Taylor Author Biographies (1/2/2000)
- 1 2 3 The Organizing Committee. Bulletin of Baltic Studies 1 (1): 24–26 JSTOR 43210266
- ↑ Personal notes. Bulletin of Baltic Studies 1 (2): 32 (1970) JSTOR 43210282
- ↑ Book Notes. Journal of the American Water Works Association 62 (1): 33 (1970) JSTOR 41265775
- ↑ George W. Carey (1971). Review: The Quality of the Urban Environment: Essays on "New Resources" in an Urban Age by Harvey S. Perloff; Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control by Sigurd Grava. Geographical Review 61 (4): 616–618 JSTOR 213399
- ↑ Columbia Professor Urges Recycling Water Systems. The New York Times, p. 47 (September 18, 1969)
- ↑ Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities, Transportation Research Board (November 25, 2008) (accessed January 1, 2025)
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