I am currently Vice President for Programs at the Woodrow Wilson Center and Director of the Center’s Urban Policy Laboratory. I received his MA and PhD degrees in Political Science from the University of Toronto (1973, 1977), and an AB degree with Highest Honors in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1971). I have lectured widely and have been a scholar/lecturer-in-residence at the Juridical Faculty of Leningrad State University (1974-1975), the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1979, 1981, 1984, 1986), the Laboratoire de Geographie at the University of Paris-X (Nanterre)(2001, 2002), the Law Faculty of Kyoto University (1996, 2002, 2004), and the Academia di architettura at the Università della Svizzera italiana (Mendrisio)(2006). My latest work – Washington’s U Street: A Biography (2010) –explores the tentative mixing of classes and in one of the Nation Capital’s most important neighborhoods. My other book-length works include a trilogy examining the fate of Russian provincial cities during the twentieth century.