Gary Hack, AICP
is a Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Dean of the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the leader of a multi-disciplinary school, which includes architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, fine arts, historic preservation and urban design. Dr. Hack teaches, practices and studies large scale physical planning and urban design. He is co-author of Site Planning, 3rd Edition (with Kevin Lynch) and Lessons From Local Experiences (with Robert Eury), and numerous articles and chapters on the subject of the spatial environment of cities. Recently, he has been one of the principal investigators on an international comparative study of how the form of cities have changed over the past 40 years in response to globalization of their economies, widespread motorization, and new communications technologies. Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Hack taught for 25 years at MIT, and was principal in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm of Carr Lynch and Sandell. He is Professor Emeritus of Urban Design at MIT.

Professor Hack has prepared plans for over 30 cities in the US and abroad including, recently, the redevelopment plan for Prudential Center in Boston, the West Side Waterfront plan in New York City, and the new Metropolitan Plan for Bangkok, Thailand. He has also worked with smaller communities on urban design issues preparing downtown development guidelines for the center of Portland, Maine, design review manuals for Hendersonville and Germantown, Tennessee, and guidelines for the development of the entrance corridors and downtown of Charlottesville, Virginia. Earlier in his career, he directed the Canadian Government's housing and urban development research and demonstration programs, initiating several large neighborhood demonstration projects and redevelopment of urban waterfronts in a number of Canadian cities. He has also served as an urban design consultant for projects in Japan, Taiwan, and Saudi Arabia.

Professor Hack earned his Ph.D. in urban studies and planning from MIT and was educated in architecture at the University of Manitoba and the University of Illinois, where he also received his first planning degree. His current professional activities include serving as a board member of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Accreditation Board, Fellowship in the Urban Land Institute and serving as Design Advisor for the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.