Wolfram Höfer is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. He received is doctoral degree from the Technische Universität München and serves as Director of the Rutgers Center for Urban Environmental Sustainability (CUES), his community outreach projects have a focus on suburban cultural landscapes. He developed numerous community outreach projects in the field of adaptive re-use of brownfields, urban resiliency, and infrastructure. His current research explores underlying cultural narratives that shape planning and design approaches to cultural landscapes within the suburban context.