Tracy Metz is a journalist and author covering urban issues. Tracy, a native of California, is director of the John Adams Institute, the center of American culture in the Netherlands and has her own monthly live talkshow Stadsleven, about living in cities. She also writes for NRC, Het Parool, De Groene Amsterdammer and Architectural Record. She was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

She is the author of a number of books, including FUN! Leisure and Landscape, about the impact of our leisure activities on the way we use and perceive our surroundings. Her most recent book is Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch, dealing with the extreme makeover of the Dutch landscape to accommodate a new relationship with water.