Dana Cuff is a professor of architecture at the UCLA where she is also Director of cityLAB, an award-winning think tank that explores design innovations in the emerging metropolis (www.cityLAB.aud.ucla.edu). Since receiving her Ph.D. in Architecture from Berkeley, Cuff has published and lectured widely about urban design, the architectural profession, affordable housing, and spatially embedded computing. She is author of several books, including The Provisional City about housing in Los Angeles, and Fast-Forward Urbanism. She heads a major program at UCLA called the Urban Humanities Initiative, funded by the Mellon Foundation.