Benjamin Miller’s work as an environmental policy planner has focused on the past, present, and future infrastructure of the New York metropolitan region, particularly its solid waste management systems and freight transport networks. He has served as director of policy planning for the New York City Department of Sanitation and deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Environmental Coordination; is the co-founder of CommunityCartography, Inc. (now part of Halcrow, Ltd.); and has taught or conducted research at NYU’s Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program, Hunter College’s Graduate Planning Department, and Columbia’s Earth Engineering Center. He is currently the senior research associate for freight programs at the University Transportation Research Center, Region 2. He has written articles on infrastructural history and planning for scholarly and general publications and is the author of Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York, the Last Two Hundred Years (Basic Books: 2000).