Brian McGrath is Professor of Urban Design and former Dean of the School of Constructed Environments, Parsons School of Design He is the f0under of urban-interface, an urban design consultancy with expertise in architecture, ecology and media. His books include: Urban Design Ecologies AD Reader (2012), Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design (2012), co-edited with S.T.A. Pickett and Mary Cadenasso. Digital Modeling for Urban Design (2008), Cinemetrics, co-authored with Jean Gardner (2007), and Transparent Cities (1994), McGrath is a Principle Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Thailand in 1998-99 and was an India China Institute Fellow in 2006-2008. He received his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University, his Bachelor of Architecture from Syracuse University and attended the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York.