Vikas Mehta (PhD 06)

He has just accepted The Terence M. Fruth/Gemini Chair of Signage Design and Community Planning and Eminent Scholar of Urban/Environmental Design position at the University of Cincinnati. The chair professorship will develop a new initiative focused on communication in the urban environment (CUE) by collaborating with planning, architecture, design, signage design, communication and other disciplines. Professor Mehta is the author of The Street: a quintessential social public space (Routledge, 2013) and Public Space (Routledge series on Critical Concepts in Built Environment, forthcoming 2015).