Peter Marcuse, Presente!

Peter Marcuse (1928-2022) was an emeritus professor of urban planning and a German-American lawyer. Peter Marcuse, the professor, was born in Berlin, Germany, on November 13, 1928. He was the son of Herbert Marcuse. In 1933, with the start of the Third Reich, he immigrated to the United States. He graduated from Yale Law School with a JD in 1952 and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from UC Berkeley in 1972. He decided to pursue a profession as a lawyer and began practicing in New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen and took part in the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964. After obtaining his Ph.D. at Columbia University, he became a professor of urban planning at UCLA from 1972 to 1972 after obtaining his Ph.D. at Columbia University. Peter Marcuse wrote "The Right to the City and the Occupy Movement." His wife, Frances, and three children make up a lovely family. Irene Marcuse is a novelist who died last year, Harold Marcuse, a history professor at UC Santa Barbara, and Andrew Marcuse, the third kid.  Throughout his career, the professor had written a number of other popular works, including Of State and Cities, Cities for People, Not for Profit, and many others. His colleague in social theory, David Madden, wrote: “RIP to our wonderful comrade Peter Marcuse, an immensely inspiring scholar, mentor, teacher, writer, researcher, urban planner, activist, and friend. His brilliance and humanity was evident in all of his work. I cannot overstate how much he will be missed!” Peter was also a member of Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism CCDS