Vikas Mehta, PhD, is the Fruth/Gemini Chair, Ohio Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design, and Professor at the School of Planning, University of Cincinnati. His work focuses on the exploration of place as a social and ecological setting and as a sensorial art in creating a more responsive, equitable, stimulating, and communicative environment. Dr. Mehta is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of six books including most recently Public Space: Notes on why it matters, what we should know, and how to realize its potential.
Danilo Palazzo, PhD, is Director of the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Before moving to Cincinnati, he was on the faculty of the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. Dr. Palazzo has authored, with Frederick Steiner, Urban Ecological Design (2011). He co-edited Companion to Public Space (2020) with Vikas Mehta, and Routledge Companion to Professional Awareness and Diversity in Planning Education
