Ocean Howell is an academic expert in the history of urban planning, design and architecture and the history of race. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of history and architectural history in the Clark Honors College. Ocean studies the processes through which buildings and...
Ocean Howell is an academic expert in the history of urban planning, design and architecture and the history of race. At the University of Oregon, he is an assistant professor of history and architectural history in the Clark Honors College. Ocean studies the processes through which buildings and cities both reflect and shape social experience. He can talk about gentrification, spatial politics of urban planning, urban history, and the history of race. He is the author of Making the Mission: Planning and Ethnicity in San Francisco (University of Chicago Press, 2015).