Paul Knox

Paul Knox has written extensively on urbanization and social change in an academic career spanning fifty years. A former Co-Editor of Environment and Planning A, Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs, and book review editor for Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy, he currently serves on the editorial board of seven international journals. A recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Association of American Geographers, his textbooks and monographs have been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Spanish. Human Geography (with Sallie Marston) and World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments (with Sallie Marston and Diana Liverman) have been recognized with excellence awards by the Text and Academic Authors Association. In recent years he has taken his academic subject matter to a broader readership, with trade books on the Palimpsests, Atlas of Cities (winner of the Association of American Geographers Globe Book Award), Strong Island, Small Town Sustainability, London: Architecture, Building and Social Change, and Metroburbia: The Anatomy of Greater London. He currently serves as University Distinguished Professor and Founding Dean of the Honors College at Virginia Tech. Find out more at https://paullknox.wordpress.com/