Anthony Townsend is Associate Research Scientist at NYU’s Taub Urban Research Center. Anthony is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds a Master of Urban Planning Degree from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He has served as a consultant to major telecommunications companies and Internet service providers.

He developed two interesting research which are connected to my own interests:
1- The science of location: wireless, geography, urban planning and architecture;
2- Urban geography of digital networks;
3- the resilient city: how cities in the past have endured traumatic episodes, and prevailed to establish new order out of chaos and devastation.