Peter Marcuse

Peter Marcuse

David Madden, Peter Marcuse (center), David Harvey, and Gregory Baggett at The Graduate Center, CUNY for the In Defense of Housing book launch.
Born (1928-11-13) November 13, 1928
Berlin, Germany
Nationality German, American
Occupation scholar, lawyer, urban planner
Title Harvey Perloff Professor of Planning, University of California at Los Angeles
Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University[1]
Website www.marcuse.org/peter/peter.htm
Academic background
Education JD, Ph.D.
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley[2]
Thesis title Home ownership programs for lower income families: legal and financial implications[2]
Thesis year 1972[2]
Academic work
Discipline Lawyer, Urban Planner
Institutions University of California, Los Angeles, Columbia University[1]

Peter Marcuse (born November 13, 1928) is a German-American lawyer and professor emeritus of urban planning.[3]

Marcuse is the son of philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. He was born in Berlin and immigrated to the US in 1933 at the beginning of the Third Reich. He obtained a JD from Yale Law School (1952) and a PhD from UC Berkeley in City and Regional Planning (1972). He began his career as a lawyer in New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut, where he served on the Board of Alderman and participated in the Freedom Summer in Mississippi in 1964.[4] After he completed his Ph.D. he became a professor of urban planning at UCLA from 1972 until 1975 and at Columbia University from 1975 to 2003. He has written extensively on the right to the city and the Occupy movement.[5][6]

Marcuse has three children with his wife Frances (née Bessler): novelist Irene Marcuse (born 1953), UC Santa Barbara history professor Harold Marcuse (born 1957), and Andrew Marcuse (born 1965).

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