Vinit Mukhija is Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA. He is the author of Remaking the American Dream: The Informal and Formal Transformation of Single-Family Housing Cities and coeditor of The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor and Just Urban Design: The Struggle for a Public City, all from the MIT Press.

Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA. She is the author of ten books, including The Informal American City: Beyond Taco Trucks and Day Labor (MIT Press).