Recent Comments

Capsule Bio

Dr. Anthony Townsend is Research Director at the Institute for the Future, an independent research organization based in California's Silicon Valley, and Senior Research Fellow at New York University's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management. His writing, public speaking and consulting focus on urbanization, ubiquitous computing and technology-led innovation and economic development. He lives and works in the New York City area. Anthony was named one of Planetizen's "Leading Thinkers in Urban Planning & Technology" and "Top 100 Thinkers" tracking the Internet of things by Postscapes.


My h-index - a measure of scholarly impact that measures citations of my research by others - as of November 2011 is 15. You can see the data behind this calculation here, or find more information about the h-index here.




Photo by Jonathan Barkat.

Social

Facebook FacebookTwitter TwitterDelicious DeliciousFlickr FlickrLinkedIn LinkedInSlideShare SlideShare

NYU

I’ve been involved with NYU for over a decade in a variety of roles:

  • 1996-1998 as a student at the Wagner Graduate School of public service, studying urban planning and working at the now-defunct Taub Urban Research Center
  • 2000-2002 as a research scientist at the Taub Urban Research Center
  • 2001-2004 as an Adjunct Professor of Public Adminstration at the Wagner Graduate School, teaching courses in GIS, data visualization and smart cities.
  • 2003-2004 as an Adjunct Professor of Communications at the Tisch School of the Arts’ Interactive Telecommunications Program
  • 2004-2005 as a Research Professor affiliated with the Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Management
  • 2010-2012 as a Visiting Scholar at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management
  • In SPring 2012, I taught a course in the urban planning program on smart cities (the syllabus)
  • Since January 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow at the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management