Social analyst, urban theorist, historian and political activist, member of the editorial board of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso. He is the author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990), Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (2000), Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007), Dead Cities. Ecology, catastrophe and revolt (2007), After Neoliberalism: Cities and Systemic Chaos (2009), Magical Urbanism. Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City (2001) and No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2007), co-written with Justin Akers Chacón.

Regarded as the father of cyberpunk thought, he teaches Urban Theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

He is a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso. He is the author of City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (1990), Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World (2000), Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb (2007), Dead Cities. Ecology, catastrophe and revolt (2007), After Neoliberalism: Cities and Systemic Chaos (2009), Magical Urbanism. Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City (2001) and No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border (2007), co-written with Justin Akers Chacón.
Regarded as the father of cyberpunk thought, he teaches Urban Theory at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.