Noah Allison

Noah Allison is a critical urban studies scholar whose transdisciplinary work explores metropolitan inequities and opportunities and the processes that cause them. He examines these dynamics by focusing on territories' power structures, urban development, social politics, spatial contestations, and everyday life. He is currently undertaking three projects. The first analyzes the intersections between multiculture urbanism and issues like spatial exclusion, informality, and insurgent citizenship through a food lens. The second examines how fear influences city planning in two American metropolises. The third project, a co-authored book, studies the effects of consolidating wholesale food markets in New York City, Mexico City, and Paris. Previously, Noah was a visiting urban studies faculty member at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto's Culinaria Research Centre, and taught at the City University of New York and The New School. Before his academic career, he worked as an urban planner and architectural historian for nearly a decade. Noah teaches research design, city planning, and urban inequality courses at Barnard.