Alan Mallach

Alan Mallach, an urbanist, writer and thinker on housing, cities and neighborhoods, is the author of The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America. A senior fellow with the Center for Community Progress in Washington DC, he has worked at the Brookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, taught at Rutgers University, the Pratt Institute, and elsewhere, lectured in the United States, Europe, Japan, China and Israel, and served as director of housing & economic development for the city of Trenton, New Jersey. In his latest book Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: Learning to Thrive Without Growth, he explores the future prospects for small cities, and outlines a path forward for cities facing the daunting challenges of a future world of climate change and declining population and economic growth. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, an accomplished pianist and author of two well-received books on 19th century Italian opera. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale College and has lived for the past forty years in Roosevelt, New Jersey.