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Sigurd "Sig" Grava (September 25, 1934 – 2009) was an American scholar, professor emeritus, member of the faculty of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, from 1960, as a professor of Urban Planning.
Grava was born on September 25, 1934 in Riga in Latvia. He attended City College, New York, graduating in 1955, and then did his master's degree (1957) and Ph.D. (1965) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, and was a member of the Urban Planning faculty of this school from 1960. He served as Chairman of the Columbia University Architecture School's Division of Urban Planning from 1970 to 1974, and as Director of the Urban Planning Program in 1990–1993.
He published Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control (Columbia University Press; 1969) and Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities (McGraw-Hill; 2003).
References
- ^ Sigurd Grava. Baker & Taylor Author Biographies (1/2/2000)
- ^ The Organizing Committee. Bulletin of Baltic Studies 1 (1): 24–26 JSTOR 43210266
- Personal notes. Bulletin of Baltic Studies 1 (2): 32 (1970) JSTOR 43210282
- Book Notes. Journal of the American Water Works Association 62 (1): 33 (1970) JSTOR 41265775
- George W. Carey (1971). Review: The Quality of the Urban Environment: Essays on "New Resources" in an Urban Age by Harvey S. Perloff; Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control by Sigurd Grava. Geographical Review 61 (4): 616–618 JSTOR 213399
- Columbia Professor Urges Recycling Water Systems. The New York Times, p. 47 (September 18, 1969)
- Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities, Transportation Research Board (November 25, 2008) (accessed January 1, 2025)
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