A specialist in urban design, he uses film theory and video techniques extensively in his studio mentoring at Parsons The New School for Design (http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/ ) and in research for his own design firm, Urban Interface, LLC (http://www.urban-interface.com/). In 2007 he published, with Jean Gardner, Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today. This is the first book based on the understanding of how digital imaging differs from the pencil drawing traditionally used in architecture and urban design. It uses theory of imagery developed in cinema. This approach to visualization is especially relevant to ecological systems due to their dynamism over time, their spatial heterogeneity, and the spatial fluxes they support. A patch dynamics perspective resonates strongly with a cinemetric approach to representation.