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M. Christine Boyer

is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, at the School of Architecture, Princeton University. She is the author of CyberCities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication (Princeton Architectural Press, 1996), The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments (MIT Press, 1994), Dreaming the Rational City: the myth of city planning 1890-1945 (MIT Press, 1983), and Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style 1850-1890 (Rizzoli, 1985). In addition, she has written many articles and lectured widely on the topic of urbanism in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is currently writing a book on Le Corbusier’s writings entitled Le Corbusier: Homme de Lettre; a series of collected essay entitled Twice-Told Stories: City and Cinema; and a series of essays on contemporary urbanism entitled Back to the Future: The City of To-tomorrow. M. Christine Boyer received her Phd. and Masters in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a Masters of Science in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania,The Moore School of Electrical Engineering.