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Alex Marshall is a journalist and public intellectual who writes and speaks about urban planning, transportation, and political economy. He is a Senior Fellow of the Regional Plan Association and contributes to publications concerned with urban design, municipal government, architecture, and related matters — including ''Metropolis'' and ''Governing''. Marshall has authored three books: ''How Cities Work: Suburbs, Sprawl and the Roads Not Taken,'' ''Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities, '' and ''The Surprising Design of Market Economies'' (Texas 2012). ==Background== Marshall was born in Norfolk, Virginia to John Francis Marshall, Jr. and Eleanor Jackson Marshall.〔Obituary of John Francis Marshall, Jr., Norfolk, Va., ''The Virginian-Pilot'', July 16, 1995, archived at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=MARS&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=48&GScntry=4&GSsr=2721&GRid=12444689&〕 Marshall's great-grandfather, Albert H. Grandy, founded ''The Virginian-Pilot'' newspaper in Norfolk in 1898, and was its first publisher and editor-in-chief.〔 Marshall attended Woodberry Forest School in the graduating class of 1978.〔Woodberry Forest Magazine and Journal, “Book Report: Recent Publications by Woodberry Alumni”, Fall 2012, p. 63, http://my.texterity.com/woodberryforestmj/fall2012?pg=65. Retrieved August 10, 2013.〕 He received a dual Bachelor of Science degree in political economy and Spanish from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983 and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1988. Marshall studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Design during the 1999-2000 academic year as a Loeb fellow. Marshall lives with his wife Kristi Barlow in Brooklyn, New York where the couple were noted for their (ultimately unsuccessful) effort between 2008 and 2010 to organize a cohousing community in Brooklyn.〔; related slide show, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/11/28/realestate/1130cov_audiov3/index.html; (printed as "Cockeyed Optimists and Steely-Eyed Lenders"); 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alex Marshall (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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