June Williamson is associate professor and department chair at the City College of New York’s Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. She is the acclaimed author of Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb (Island Press, 2013).
Ellen Dunham-Jones is professor of architecture and directs the urban design degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was voted one of the world’s 100 most influential urbanists by Planetizen and hosts the Redesigning Cities podcast.
The authors’ first book in the series, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley 2009, 2011, Mandarin 2013), was deemed "the Bible of the retrofitting movement" in the Chicago Tribune. It was featured in The New York Times, CBS Evening News, Urban Land, Architectural Record, and The Architect’s Newspaper, and received the 2009 PROSE award for architecture and urban planning from the American Association of Publishers.