Summary: New York City-based writer Tom Vanderbilt was Visiting Scholar in residence at the CCA Study Centre in the fall of 2008. Tom Vanderbilt is author of the best-selling book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). He writes on design, technology, science, and culture for such publications as Wired, Slate, The London Review of Books, Artforum, The Financial Times, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, Cabinet, Metropolis, and Popular Science. He is a contributing editor to the design magazines I.D. and Print, and a contributing writer to the popular blog Design Observer. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, 16 October 2008
