Alex Bitterman Editor

Alex Bitterman, MArch, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Architecture and Design at Alfred State University of New York in Alfred, New York and a fellow of the New York State Council for the Humanities. Bitterman is founding editor of Multi: The Journal of Diversity in Design and a member of the editorial board of Critical Studies in Men's Fashion, published by Intellect.

Daniel Baldwin Hess, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Urban Planning at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is co-editor of the journal Town Planning Review and is co-editor of Housing Estates in Europe: Poverty, Ethnic Segregation, and Policy Challenges (Springer, 2018) and Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries: The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (Springer, 2019).

Together, the two co-editors have expertise in urban geography, city planning, architecture, urban identity, morphology and design, social exclusion, segregation, and inequity. Hess and Bitterman are authors of more than a dozen articles about gay neighborhoods including: “Effects of Gentrification and Real Estate Market Escalation on Lesbian and Gay Neighborhoods” (Hess, 2018, Town Planning Review); “Rainbow diaspora: the emerging renaissance of gay neighbourhoods.” Bitterman, 2020, Town Planning Review); “Gay Ghettoes Growing Gray: Transformation of gay urban districts across North America reflects generational change” (Bitterman and Hess, 2016, Journal of American Culture); “For Many Gay Men, the Current Pandemic Is Triggering HIV/AIDS Trauma” (Bitterman, 2020, The Advocate); “Will Gay and Lesbian Neighborhoods Resurge?” (Bitterman and Hess, 2016, Washington Blade); “The Queer-normative Influence Towards an Inclusive and Multisthetic Transformation in Men’s Fashion” and “Getting Beyond the Fear of Queer: The transition from gender-specific fashion to inclusive style” (Bitterman, 2016, Critical Studies in Men's Fashion).