Robert M. MacLeod, AIA is a Professor and Director of the USF School of Architecture and Community Design. Professor MacLeod's academic research focuses on urban design and community planning issues within the "unfinished project" of the contemporary city, public space infrastructure, conditions of suburban sprawl, and redevelopment strategies for abandoned commercial centers and edges. He was the founding Director of the University of Florida's Orlando "Citi-Lab" Studio and has served as primary investigator for several funded research projects including the "West Kendall Study", an environmentally sensitive commercial and residential master plan for a 160-acre property south of Miami, bordering the Florida Everglades, and sponsored by the Rouse Company of Columbia, Maryland; "The Ruskin Project", a proposal for contemporary suburban re-development in southwest Florida; and "Intervention as Context", an analytical study of Orlando, Florida, the first of several Orlando-based research studies and projects.