Noah Allison is a critical urban studies scholar whose transdisciplinary work explores metropolitan inequities and opportunities and the processes that cause them. He examines these dynamics by focusing on territories' power structures, urban development, social politics, spatial contestations, and everyday life. He is currently undertaking three projects. The first analyzes the intersections between multiculture urbanism and issues of spatial exclusion, informality, and insurgent citizenship. The second examines how fear influences city planning in two American metropolises. The third project, a co-authored book, studies the effects of consolidating wholesale food markets in New York City, Mexico City, and Paris.  Noah's work has been published in a wide range of scholarly and public venues, including Urban History, Food, Culture & Society, the Journal of Critical Food Studies, Buildings and Landscapes, and Platform.

 

Noah holds a B.A. in Architectural History from UC Santa Barbara, a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from Cal Poly, an M.A. in Gender and Sexuality in Global Politics from the University of London, and a Ph.D. in Public and Urban Policy from The New School.  He has served as a visiting urban studies faculty member at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Culinaria Research Centre.  Additionally he has taught at the City University of New York and The New School.  Before his academic career, he worked as an urban planner and architectural historian for nearly a decade, including positions with the MTA in New York, the California DoT, and the Los Angeles Planning Department's Office of Historic Resources. Noah is currently a term assistant professor in the Barnard-Columbia Urban Studies Program, teaching courses on research design, city planning, and urban inequality.