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Ross King is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning at the University of Melbourne, and was educated as an architect and urban planner at the University of Sydney. He was also a graduate student under Louis Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also sat at the feet of such modernist luminaries as Le Corbusier, Lewis Mumford, and Arnold Toynbee. He has practiced as an architect, planner, and policy analyst, taught at the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne, and researched (among other things) the complexities of urban housing markets, the cultural contexts and economic effects of urban and landscape design, and theories of design.King, Ross is the author of 'Emancipating Space Geography, Architecture, and Urban Design' with ISBN 9781572300460 and ISBN 1572300469.
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