Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Geography
MIT

James Wescoat is the Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Landscape Architecture and Geography at MIT, where he taught courses on “Islamic Architecture and the Environment,” “Water in Planning, Policy, and Design,” “Disaster-Resilient Design,” along with urban landscape design workshops in India and the U.S. Jim served as co-director of the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. His research concentrates on water systems in South Asia and the US from the site to river basin scales. His current work includes multi-scale water planning in South Asia, and an historical geography of South Asian cities from the 8th c. to the present.

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