Frederick Steiner is dean and Paley Professor, and co-executive director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He has written, edited, or co-edited 21 books, including Design with Nature Now and Megaregions and America’s Future (both from Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, distributed by Columbia University Press). He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.