Allison Arieff (born October 29, 1966Adam Bluestein
So What Do You Do, Allison Arieff? (Interview)
mediabistro, July 29, 2003. Retrieved 2012-03-05. ) is the Editorial Director of Print for the MIT Technology Review. An American writer and editor, she was, most recently, Senior Editor of City Monitor - The New Statesman. She was previously editorial director for the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR (the

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). From 2007-2020, she wrote a regular column about architecture, design, cities and technology for the

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section of ''

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''. Early in her career, she held editorial positions at

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and

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. In 2000, Arieff helped found the architecture and design magazine '' Dwell'', and in 2002, following the departure of founding editor Karrie Jacobs, she was promoted to

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. During her tenure the magazine expanded its readership, and received a number of awards, including a

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for general excellence. She left the magazine in 2006. She has been an editor at ''

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'', worked at ''Good'' magazine and was a senior content lead for the design and consulting firm

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from 2006 to 2008. Arieff holds a B.A. in history from

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, and an M.A. in art history from

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. She completed her PhD coursework in

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Bibliography

*''Prefab'' (book design by Bryan Burkhart),

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(2002) (subject:

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s) *''Trailer Travel: A Visual History of Mobile America'' (design by Burkhart, photography by Phil Noyes), Gibbs Smith (2002) (subject:

mobile home A mobile home (also known as a house trailer, park home, trailer, or trailer home) is a prefabrication, prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or ...

s) *''Spa'',

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(2004) (subject:

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References

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