Martin H. Krieger

Professor

Ralph and Goldy Lewis Hall 317
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0626
Email: krieger@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-3957
Fax: (213) 740-1801
Website: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~krieger
Curriculum Vita
Ph.D. in Physics
Columbia University

Expertise
Aural and photographic documentation of Southern California, planning theory and design theory, urban spatial processes

Biographical Sketch
Martin Krieger, Ph.D., does social-science informed aural and photographic documentation of Los Angeles, including storefront houses of worship and industrial Los Angeles. Professor Krieger has won three consecutive Mellon Mentoring Awards, for mentoring undergraduates, faculty, and graduate students. Professor Krieger has worked in the fields of planning and design theory, ethics and entrepreneurship, mathematical models of urban spatial processes, and has explored the role of the humanities in planning. His eight published books describe how planning, design, and science are actually done. Titles include Advice and Planning (1981); Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989); Doing Physics: How Physicists Take Hold of the World (1992); Entrepreneurial Vocations: Learning From the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers, Antigone, Oedipus, and Prospero (1996); Constitutions of Matter: Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena (1996); What's Wrong With Plastic Trees?: Artifice and Authenticity in Design (2000); Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003); and, Urban Tomographies (2011). He is currently writing a book on photographing Los Angeles and Paris, and on more general issues of urban documentation. Professor Krieger has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He has received grants from a variety of private foundations, and has served as the Zell/Lurie Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at University of Michigan's Business School. He joined the USC faculty in 1984. Martin Krieger authors an online column or blog called This Week's Finds in Planning (700 columns since 1997). He is preparing a book based on those columns, How Students and Faculty Will Make for Stronger Scholarship and a Stronger University. He serves as vice-chair of the University Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure. In November 2006, he was named Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Publications
Krieger, M., “Media Tools for Urban Design”; Companion to Urban Design Eds. T. Banerjee and A. Loukaitou-Sideris, London: Routledge, pp. 238-248; 2011

Krieger, M., Urban Tomographies; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press; 2011

Krieger, M., “Lessons from Charles Marville: Preserving Detail in Media Documentation of Cities, Studying That Detail in Urban Research”; Journal of Planning Education and Research; 2011

Krieger, M., “The City Inscribed and the City Natural—At Your Feet”; Journal of Planning Education and Research 29: 491-493 ; 2010

Krieger, M. with M. Ra, J. Paek, R. Govindan, and J. Evans-Cowley, “Urban Tomography”; Journal of Urban Technology 17: 21-36 ; 2010

Krieger, M. with M. Ra, J. Paek, A. B. Sharma, R. Govindan, M. J. Neely, “Energy-Delay Tradeoffs in Smartphone Applications”; Proceedings ACM Mobisys, San Francisco, California ; 2010

Krieger, M. and T. Holman, A Dozen “Tamales!”: Documenting the Aural Urban Sensorium; Journal of Planning Education and Research; 2007

Krieger, M., "A 1940 Letter of Andre Weil on Analogy in Mathematics"; (MHK is translator) Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 52: 334-341; 2005

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