Martin J MurrayMartin J. Murray is a Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College urban planning faculty. He is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current research engagesthe fields of urban studies and planning, global urbanism, cultural geography, distressed urbanism, development, historical sociology, and African studies. In addition to six books and three co-edited volumes, he has produced close to eighty journal articles and book chapters that focus on diverse geographical areas of the world at different historical periods, ranging from colonial Indochina to contemporary southern Africa. Read More Read Less