Paul L. Knox has written extensively on urbanization and social change in an academic career spanning fifty years. A former Co-Editor of Environment and Planning A, Co-Editor of the Journal of Urban Affairs, and book review editor for Environment & Planning C: Government & Policy, he currently serves on the editorial board of seven international journals.
A recipient of the Distinguished Scholarship Award of the Association of American Geographers, his textbooks and monographs have been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Spanish. Human Geography (with Sallie Marston) and World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments (with Sallie Marston and Diana Liverman) have been recognized with excellent awards by the Text and Academic Authors Association.
In recent years he has taken his academic subject matter to a broader readership, with trade books on the Palimpsests, Atlas of Cities (winner of the Association of American Geographers Globe Book Award), Strong Island, Small Town Sustainability, London: Architecture, Building and Social Change, and Metroburbia: The Anatomy of Greater London.
He currently serves as University Distinguished Professor and Founding Dean of the Honors College at Virginia Tech.
Books in order of publication:
Metroburbia, USA – 2008
Cities and Design (Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City) – 2010
Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography – 2011
Palimpsests: Biographies of 50 City Districts. International Case Studies of Urban Change – 2012
Small Town Sustainability: Economic, Social, and Environmental Innovation – 2013
Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context – 2015
London: Architecture, Building and Social Change – 2015
World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments – 2016
Metroburbia: The Anatomy of Greater London – 2017
Better by Design?: Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Good City – 2020
Atlas of Cities – 2022
London: A History of 300 Years in 25 Buildings – 2024
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