Sigurd Grava

Sigurd "Sig" Grava (September 25, 1934 – 2009^{[citation needed]}) was an American scholar, professor emeritus, member of the faculty of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, from 1960, as a professor of Urban Planning.^[1]

Grava was born on September 25, 1934 in Riga in Latvia.^[2] He attended City College, New York, graduating in 1955, and then did his master's degree (1957) and Ph.D. (1965) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University,^[1][2] and was a member of the Urban Planning faculty of this school from 1960.^[2] He served as Chairman of the Columbia University Architecture School's Division of Urban Planning from 1970^[3] to 1974, and as Director of the Urban Planning Program in 1990–1993.

He published Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control (Columbia University Press; 1969)^[4][5][6] and Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities (McGraw-Hill; 2003).^[7]