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Professor Thomas L Blair

Thomas L Blair (born June 9, 1926) is an American sociologist, urban planner, social critic and cyberactivist. Blair is a major figure With Alfred McLung Lee in the founding of the Society for the Study of Social Problems 1951 and with David Brower in founding Friends of the Earth 1971 and The Environmental Handbook. He is a retired Professor of Social and Environmental Planning at the Polytechnic of Central London, and is author of 5 books and 54 E-books on topics such as urban planning, urban renewal and racial justice, fair media practices and social change, human settlements action planning. In addition, Blair is a long-time resident in Britain and has a unique trans-Atlantic grasp of the perils and progress of Black communities reported in his website chronicleworld.co.uk

Degrees: BA Sociology Northeastern University, MA Sociology and African Studies at Boston University, doctoral studies in sociology at Columbia University, PhD in Sociology and Latin American Studies, Michigan State University and in England MA Sociology and Urban Studies Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Honors: John Hay Whitney Foundation in Latin American Studies 1953-1954, the Ford Foundation in African Studies 1960-1962 and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts FRSA.