Dr. Peter Laurence is director of graduate studies and associate professor of architecture at Clemson University School of Architecture. Peter has been a student of Jane Jacobs's work for many years, with studies in business and entrepreneurship, architecture, and urban history drawing him to her books on cities, economies, and civilizations. He is the author of Becoming Jane Jacobs (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016 http://a.co/gcobJqR), an intellectual biography that focuses on the origins of The Death and Life of Great American Cities and the influences of her early life and career on her later books. Peter’s other writings on Jacobs, urban history, and urban design have been published in Journal of Urban Design, Journal of Architectural Education, and Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, in addition to edited volumes including Reconsidering Jane Jacobs (Planners Press), Alternative Visions of Postwar Reconstruction (Routledge), A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture (Ashgate), and The Penn Resolution: Educating Urban Designers for Post-Carbon Cities (Penn Design). In 2006, he served as a consultant for the creation of Rockefeller Foundation's Jane Jacobs Medals and, in 2008, helped lead “Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil,” an international symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Penn-Rockefeller Conference on Urban Design Criticism, which Jane Jacobs was part of just before writing Death and Life. Peter continues work on Jacobs and is now writing a reader's guide to The Death and Life of Great American Cities. He also helps spearhead TheUrbanismProject.org, which promotes urbanism and urban design education in architecture curricula. More about his work can be found at peterlaurence.academia.edu.