Sigurd Grava

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Sigurd "Sig" Grava (September 25, 1934 – 2009{{cn|date=January 2025}}) was an American scholar, professor emeritus, member of the faculty of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, from 1960, as a professor of Urban Planning.

Grava was born on September 25, 1934 in Riga in Latvia.The Organizing Committee. Bulletin of Baltic Studies 1 (1): 24–26 {{jstor|43210266}} He attended City College, New York, graduating in 1955, and then did his master's degree (1957) and Ph.D. (1965) at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University,Sigurd Grava. Baker & Taylor Author Biographies (1/2/2000) and was a member of the Urban Planning faculty of this school from 1960. He served as Chairman of the Columbia University Architecture School's Division of Urban Planning from 1970Personal notes. Bulletin of Baltic Studies 1 (2): 32 (1970) {{jstor|43210282}} to 1974, and as Director of the Urban Planning Program in 1990–1993.

He published Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control (Columbia University Press; 1969)Book Notes. Journal of the American Water Works Association 62 (1): 33 (1970) {{jstor|41265775}}George W. Carey (1971). Review: The Quality of the Urban Environment: Essays on "New Resources" in an Urban Age by Harvey S. Perloff; Urban Planning Aspects of Water Pollution Control by Sigurd Grava. Geographical Review 61 (4): 616–618 {{jstor|213399}}Columbia Professor Urges Recycling Water Systems. The New York Times, p. 47 (September 18, 1969) and Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities (McGraw-Hill; 2003).[https://trid.trb.org/View/875170 Urban Transportation Systems. Choices for Communities], Transportation Research Board (November 25, 2008) (accessed January 1, 2025)