Justin Kollar is a planner, designer, and scholar of infrastructural urbanism. He holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT (2025), master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Harvard GSD (2017), and a BS in Architecture from the University of Michigan. He was a Fellow at MIT’s Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (2020-2025).
Justin
develops the concept of techno-statecraft to
analyze how states, firms, and utilities use infrastructure as industrial
strategy, reshaping resource governance and metropolitan form. His comparative
work in the U.S. and Asia combines spatial analysis, fieldwork, and policy
research to link local planning decisions to broader energy-water-land flows
and governance.
Justin
writes a newsletter called Techno-Statecraft where he posts his research and commentary.
