Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and a faculty member of the Program in the Design of Urban Places, an interdisciplinary program sponsored by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design that offers a Master's of Urban Design Degree. Her research interests encompass urban design theory, history of urban design, history of urban form, public space design, and environment-behavior research. Her writings include The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press 2002), The Urban Design Reader (Routledge, 2006), and numerous journal articles. Macdonald practices urban design through her firm Cityworks. Recent professional projects include redesigns for Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco, Pacific Boulevard in Vancouver, and International Boulevard in Oakland.