A member of the faculty since 1962, Dr. Vigier is the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he was also the Director of the School’s Center for Urban Development Studies (CUDS) from 1987 to 2005. He was the Chairman of the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 1992 to 1998.  He combines 45 years of active professional practice in the United States and abroad with 40 years of teaching. He has been responsible for numerous large-scale regional and urban planning projects in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. His recent professional activities have focused on building the capacity of local public officials in Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Caribbean to manage a sustainable urban environment.  He has been active in the preservation of the non-monumental cultural heritage, notably the rehabilitation of the medina of Fez.  He is the principal investigator on the creation of an inter-active database on the Old City of Jerusalem.  Vigier is the editor of Sprawl: Beyond the Rhetoric (2000, with Nicolas Retsinas), and The New Planning Agenda (1996).  He is the author of Housing in Tunis (1987), Change and Apathy (1970) and articles on planning.  In 1995, he was made a Knight of the National Order of Merit (France).

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