College of Architecture and Urban Studies | School of Public and International Affairs

Senior Fellow for International Advancement 100 Sandy Hall 540-231-1695 knox@vt.edu

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ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHY

Education

• Ph.D. in Geography (University of Sheffield, England, 1972)
• B. A. (Hons), 1st Class (Geography, University of Sheffield, England, 1969)

Brief Biography

Paul Knox is a University Distinguished Professor and currently serves as Senior Fellow for International Advancement, reporting directly to the university President. Between 1997 and 2006 he served as Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. As a member of the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning he taught courses on urban and regional development theory and comparative urbanization. He currently teaches courses on European Urbanization and Urbanism. He is a member of the editorial board of seven international journals and has served as Co-Editor of Environment and Planning A (1991-2000), Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs, (1986-1991), and book review editor for Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy (1984-1991). He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Virginia Center for Architecture and a member of Virginia Tech's Ut Prosim Society.

Knox has received numerous honors and awards, including the Textbook Excellence Award for the Humanities and Social  Sciences, Text and Academic Authors Association, for World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments, with Sallie Marston and Diana Liverman in 2005; honorary membership in the American Institute of Architects, for services to the profession in 2000; the Textbook Excellence Award for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Text and Academic Authors Association, for Human Geography, with Sallie Marston in 1999; the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Service Award in 1999; and the Virginia Social Science Association Scholar Award  "For Expanding  Horizons of Knowledge in Geography" in1998.

He is currently working on two book projects. The first concerns the material culture and built environment of contemporary suburbia. The working title is Vulgaria: The Leading Edge of the New Metropolis. The book draws on Michael Ball's concept of the 'structures of building provision,' looking at the role of key actors and institutions in the production of the cultural landscapes that dominate upper-middle-class suburbia- 'Vulgaria.' The second is a work in progress with Heike Mayer, focusing on the Cittaslow movement and its implications for economic development and sustainability.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Sallie Marston, Paul L. Knox, and Diana Liverman, World Regional Geography: Peoples, Places, and Environments.  Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 3rd edition, 2007.
• Paul L. Knox and Sallie Marston, Places and Regions in Global Context, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 4th edition, 2006.
• Paul L. Knox and  Linda McCarthy, Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, 2005.
• Paul L. Knox and Steven Pinch, Urban Social Geography 5th edition, John Wiley, New York, 2005.
• Paul L. Knox, J. Agnew and L. McCarthy, The Geography of the World-Economy, Edward Arnold, London and Routledge, New York, 4th edition 2003.
• A, Azari, R. Bolton, W. Craig, R. Dunphy, C. Howard, R. Johnson, P. L. Knox, H. Miller, and J. Wolch, Livable Communities. Washington, D.C. National Academies of Science, 2002.
• Paul L. Knox and Peter Ozolins (eds.), Design Professionals and the Built Environment. London: Wiley, 2000

ARTICLES

• Paul L. Knox, "Schlock and Awe. The American Dream, Bought and Sold," The American Interest, II (4) March/April 2007, 58-67.
• Heike Mayer and Paul L. Knox "Slow Cities: Sustainable Places in a Fast World" Journal of Urban Affairs, 28 (4), pp. 321-334, 2006.
• Heike Mayer and Paul L. Knox, "Slow City - Città Lente: Ein Modell fuer lebenswerte Stadtentwicklung?" Die Alte Stadt, In press.
• Paul L. Knox and R. Lang, "The New Metropolis: Rethinking Megalopolis," Regional Studies. In press.
• Paul L. Knox, "Internacionalizace Architektury: Profesní Vzdelávání V Ére Druhé Modernity" (The Internationalization of Architecture: Professional Education in the Second Modernity),  Era21  1.06 (Brno, Czech Republic, 53-54.)
• Paul L. Knox, "Creating Ordinary Places: Slow Cities in a Fast World," Journal of Urban Design, 10 (1), 2005, 3-13.
• Paul L. Knox, "Vulgaria: The Re-Enchantment of Suburbia," Opolis, 1(2), 34-47, 2005.
• Paul L. Knox and  Peter J. Taylor, "Toward a Geography of the Globalization of Architecture Office Networks," Journal of Architectural Education, 58 (3), 2005, pp.23-32.
• Paul L. Knox, "Urban Geography as if people and places matter," Urban Geography, 24, 2003, 273-278.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Heike Mayer and Paul L. Knox, "Pace of Life and Quality of Life: The Slow City Charter" in Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases III, edited by Joseph Sirgy, Don Rahtz, and Rhonda Phillips. In press.
• Paul L. Knox, "World Cities and the Internationalization of Design Services"  in Peter J. Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, and  Frank Witlox (eds), Cities in Globalization, pp. 72-87.  London: Routledge, 2006.
• Paul L. Knox, "The Restless Urban Landscape: Economic and Socio-Cultural Change and the Transformation of Washington, D.C.," pp. 281-292 in N. R. Fyfe and J. T. Kenny (eds.), The Urban Geography Reader.  London: Routledge, 2005. 
• Paul L. Knox, "The Built Environment," in M. Carmona and S. Tiesdell (Eds) The Urban Design Reader,  Architectural Press, London.&
• Paul L. Knox, "World Cities and the Organization of Global Space," Chapter 21 in R. J. Johnston, P. J. Taylor and M. Watts (eds.) Geographies of Global Change. 2nd edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, 328-339.
• Paul L. Knox, The Design professions and the built environment in a postmodern epoch, pp. 357-362 in Alexander Cuthbert (Ed.), Designing Cities. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003.