Alan Mallach

Alan Mallach is a senior fellow with the Center for Community Progress in Washington, DC, who has worked in, studied and written about cities in the United States and elsewhere for over fifty years. He has taught at Pratt Institute, Rutgers University and elsewhere, lectured widely in the United States, Europe, Israel and Japan, worked for the Brookings Institution and the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and held a number of government positions, including serving as Director of Housing & Economic Development in Trenton, New Jersey. His most recent books include The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the 21^st Century (with Todd Swanstrom) and Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World, which focuses on future economic strategies for smaller cities in a world of slow growth and rapid climate change, as well as many other books including The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America, and many articles on cities, affordable housing and neighborhood change. He is an accomplished pianist, and has also published two books about Italian opera. He holds a B.A. degree from Yale College, and lives in Roosevelt, New Jersey.