Sigurd "Sig" Grava (September 25, 1934 – 2009[citation needed]) 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.
[1] Grava was born on September 25, 1934 in Riga in Latvia.
[2] 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,[1][2] and was a member of the Urban Planning faculty of this school from 1960.
[2] He served as Chairman of the Columbia University Architecture School's Division of Urban Planning from 1970[3] 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)[4][5][6] and Urban Transportation Systems.