Wade Graham, Author of Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World, earned a Ph.D in American history from UCLA and has taught at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University since 2009. Today, he is a writer, historian, and landscape designer with a practice in Los Angeles. His writing explores cultural history, urbanism, and environment, and is featured in Los Angeles Times, the New York, and Harper’s. Other books by Graham include Braided Waters: Environment and Society in Molokai, Hawaii and American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyard, What Our Gardens Tell Us About Ourselves.