Allison Arieff is a writer and editor whose work focuses on workplace design. Currently, she is the Editorial Director of Print for the MIT Technology Review.Previously, Arieff was Senior Editor of City Monitor The New Statesman. Before that, she was the editorial director for the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR (the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association). From 2007-2020, she wrote a regular column about architecture, design, cities and technology for the Opinion section of The New York Times.Early in her career, Arieff held editorial positions at Random House, Oxford University Press, and Chronicle Books. In 2000, she helped found the architecture and design magazine Dwell, and she became its Editor-in-Chief.Arieff received her B.A. in History from the University of California Los Angeles and her M.A. in Art History the from University of California Davis.