About Dr. Allison

Eric Allison is founder and Academic Coordinator of Pratt Institute's graduate Historic Preservation program and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Architecture. He has taught at Pratt Institute since 1996.

Dr. Allison's research interests are on the place of historic preservation in the creation and maintenance of livable cities; preservation and neighborhoods; and questions of heritage policy and implementation in a changing society.

He has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Historic Preservation from Columbia University and an M.S. in City & Regional Planning from Pratt Institute.

Dr. Eric Allison in the News:

June 15, 2011
New Yorker’s Lessons For Detroiters

Listen to Dr. Eric Allison talking with Chris McCarus of MichiganNow.org outside the Detroit Historical Museum.

“Dr. Allison is taking the long view backwards and forwards to see how cities can rebuild themselves. ...His new book is Historic Preservation and The Livable City. It has lessons from New York that Detroiters can learn. Allison describes how New York hit bottom in the mid-1970’s.”

 
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  • Dr. Allison welcomes inquiries from the press in the following areas:

  • Preservation Policy

  • Heritage Preservation

  • Preservation Planning

  • Preservation Advocacy

  • Livable Cities


  • Contact Eric Allison:
  • email: eallison@pratt.edu
  • Pratt Institute's Historic Preservation program: coordinator profile
  • Eric Allison is a principal of the The Allison Group, LLC