Eric Allison

A speaker and author, Dr. Allison has written on several subjects, including urban planning and preservation, business, and fiction. His works on business include Managing Up, Managing Down, a practical book on middle management techniques for supervisors (Simon & Schuster, 1984; co-authored with Mary Ann Allison) and The Raiders of Wall Street (Stein & Day, 1986). A murder mystery, Through the Valley of Death, was published by Doubleday in 1983, also co-authored with Mary Ann Allison.

Dr. Allison's awards include a 1998 appointment by Mayor Giuliani as a Centennial Historian of New York City and election to membership in the Salzburg Congress on Urban Planning and Development and the Institute for Urban Design. He is profiled in Who's Who in America.

Eric Allison is founder of the graduate Historic Preservation program and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Architecture. He has taught historic preservation and planning at Pratt since 1996. He has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation from Columbia University and an M.S. in City & Regional Planning from Pratt.

Dr. Allison's research interests are on the place of historic preservation in the creation and maintenance of livable cities and in the application of Complex Systems Theory to human society, including the future of cities, virtual communities, and the changing nature of the nation-state.