Dr. Kheir Al-Kodmany is a Professor of Spatial Planning and Urban Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He has been teaching for 30 years, has published over 100 papers and six books, and ranks among top faculty in the United States. Dr. Al-Kodmany was invited by mayors of numerous cities to help in preparing master plans and lectured in renowned universities worldwide.  He worked for the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, and he continues consulting on architecture and planning projects. He is on the editorial boards of a dozen of journals covering a wide range of topics including sustainability, eco-architecture, urban design, urban planning, e-planning, spatial planning, geographic information systems, visualization systems, and the like.