Michael McCulloch is a Fellow of the Michigan-Mellon Project on Egalitarianism and the Metropolis, and Lecturer in the Urban and Regional Planning program at Taubman College. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Urban Design from Columbia University, and is a registered architect. Michael’s research and design work have engaged cities including Bangkok, New York, and most recently, Detroit, and address issues of urban ecology, capitalist political economy, post-industrial culture, and housing. His study of worker’s houses in early twentieth century Detroit was awarded a fellowship by the American Council of Learned Societies, and Michael’s essays have appeared in Preservation Education and Research and the Journal of Urban History.