Catherine Tumberis the author of Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America’s Smaller Industrial Cities in a Low-Carbon World (MIT Press, 2012). She is a Penn Institute for Urban Research scholar and a Gateway Cities Innovation Institute fellow with theMassachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth. She holds a PhD and an MA in US history from the University of Rochester and a BA in social thought and political economy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Read More Read Less