Guest Speakers Sustainable Infrastructure: The Role of Politics and Governance Diane E. Davis is Professor of Urbanism and Development at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before to moving to the GSD in 2012, Davis served as the head of the International Development Group in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, where she was Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning. Trained as a sociologist, Davis s research interests include the politics of urban development policy, socio- spatial practice in conflict cities, the relations between urbanization and national development, and comparative international development. With a special interest in Latin America, she has explored topics ranging from historic preservation, urban social movements, and identity politics to urban governance, fragmented sovereignty, and state formation. Current research focuses on the urban social, spatial, and political conflicts that have emerged in response to globalization, informality, and political or economic violence in cities of the global south. Her books include Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century (Temple University Press 1994; Spanish translation 1999), Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004; named the ASA s 2005 Best Book in Political Sociology), Irregular Armed Forces and their Role in Politics and State Formation (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Conflicts in the Urban Realm (Indiana University Press, 2011). She also is the author of Urban Resilience in Situations of Chronic Violence, prepared for USAID, which examines the coping and adapting strategies adopted by citizens and authorities to push back against violence in seven cities around the world. Currently Davis directs a three- year project funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundation titled Transforming Urban Transport - The Role of Political Leadership. She also is co- PI of a three year project funded by INFONAVIT focused on developing a new social housing policy for Mexican cities. Davis is a contributing editor for the US Library of Congress, Handbook of Latin American Studies (Sociology: Mexico), and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Planning Education and Research and City and Community.
Talk Title Forthcoming Howard Frumkin is Dean, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, at the University of Washington School of Public Health. Dr. Frumkin is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist, who has worked in academia and public service. From 2005 to 2010 he held leadership roles at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, first as director of the National Center for Environmental Health and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (NCEH/ATSDR), and later as Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health. During his tenure NCEH/ATSDR created programs in Climate Change and in Healthy Community Design; launched training programs for college students, doctoral students, and post- docs; expanded its Biomonitoring and Environmental Public Health Tracking programs; and launched its National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures. From 1990 to 2005, he was Professor and Chair of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University s Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School. Dr. Frumkin currently serves on the Boards of the U.S. Green Building Council, the Bullitt Foundation, the Children and Nature Network, the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute, and the Washington Global Health Alliance, on the Executive Committee for the Regional Open Space Strategy for Central Puget Sound, on Procter & Gamble s Sustainability Expert Advisory Panel, and on Advisory Boards for the Yale Climate and Energy Institute, the National Sustainable Communities Coalition, Green Chemistry Center Northwest, the Partnership for Active Transportation, and the Center for Design and Health at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. He previously served on the national Board of Directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), where he co- chaired the Environment Committee; as president of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC); as chair of the Science Board of the American Public Health Association (APHA); on the National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors; on the Board of the National Environmental Education Foundation; on the National Research Council Committee on Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government, on the Washington Department of Ecology Toxics Reduction Strategy Group, and on Seattle s Green Ribbon Commission. As a member of EPA s Children s Health Protection Advisory Committee, he chaired the Smart Growth and Climate Change work groups. A graduate of the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership, he was named Environmental Professional of the Year by the Georgia Environmental Council in 2004. His research interests include public health aspects of the built environment, climate change, energy policy, and nature contact; toxic effects of chemicals; and environmental health policy. He is the author or co- author of over 200 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health (Island Press, 2004, co- authored with Larry Frank and Dick Jackson; named a Top Ten Book of 2005 by Planetizen, the Planning and Development Network), Emerging Illness and Society (Johns Hopkins Press, 2004, co- edited with Randall Packard, Peter Brown, and Ruth Berkelman), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Jossey- Bass, 2005 and 2010), Safe and Healthy School Environments (Oxford University Press, 2006, co- edited with Leslie Rubin and Robert Geller), Green Healthcare Institutions: Health, Environment, Economics (National Academies Press, 2007, co- edited with Christine Coussens), and Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well- Being, and Sustainability (Island Press, 2011, co- edited with Andrew Dannenberg and Dick Jackson). Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Environmental and Occupational Medicine training at Harvard. He is Board- certified in Internal Medicine and in Environmental and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Collegium Ramazzini and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. He is married to radio journalist Joanne Silberner, and has two children, Gabe (26), a political campaign worker, and Amara (21), a Yale undergraduate.
Urban River Parkways as Routes to Health. An Olmsted legacy reviving from 20th Century coma. Richard Joseph Jackson is Professor and Chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles. A pediatrician, he has served in many leadership positions in both environmental health and infectious disease with the California Health Department, including the highest as the State Health Officer. For nine years he was Director of the CDC s National Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta and received the Presidential Distinguished Service award. In October, 2011 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. While in California he helped establish the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program and state and national laws to reduce risks from pesticides, especially to farm workers and to children. While at CDC he established the national asthma epidemiology and control program, oversaw the childhood lead poisoning prevention program, and instituted the federal effort to biomonitor chemical levels in the US population. He has received the Breast Cancer Fund s Hero Award, as well as Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Public Health Law Association, and the New Partners for Smart Growth. In October, 2012 he received the John Heinz Award for Leadership in the Environment. In fall of 2013 he was the Tisch Distinguished Public Health Fellow at Roosevelt House in Manhattan. Dick Jackson lectures and speaks on many issues, particularly those related to built environment and health. He co- authored two Island Press Books: Urban Sprawl and Public Health in 2004 and Making Healthy Places in 2011. He is host of a 2012 public television series Designing Healthy Communities which links to the J Wiley & Sons book by the same name published in October, 2011. He has served on many environmental and health boards, as well as the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects. He is an elected honorary member of both the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects. Richard Jackson is married to Joan Guilford Jackson; they have three grown children and one grandchild.
Talk Title Forthcoming Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Departments of City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture/Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the history of urban form, street design, and the post-occupancy assessment of streets and neighborhoods shaped by planning and urban design policy. She is also a partner in the San Francisco-based urban design firm, Jacobs Macdonald: Cityworks. She consults internationally on street design and planning projects and has designed multiway boulevards in San Francisco, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Ahmedabad, India. She is author of Pleasure Drives and Promenades: A History of Frederick Law Olmsted s Brooklyn Parkways (Center for American Places, 2012) co-author of The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press, 2002) and co-editor of The Urban Design Reader (Routledge, 1 st edition 2007, 2 nd edition 2013).
Talk Title Forthcoming Lynn A. Richards, MSES, MPA, is a nationally recognized smart growth expert. She will become the next president and chief executive officer of CNU. Formerly with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s Office of Sustainable Communities, Richards will assume her role at CNU July 1. Richards has had a distinguished career at EPA, including authoring significant research and implementing policy changes at the federal, state, and local levels. She helped break down roadblocks and coordinate funding among HUD, DOT, EPA and other agencies that affect the built and natural environment. As an urban design expert, Richards has worked on placemaking issues with state and local governments, helping them reimagine their towns and cities. Richards was awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard's Graduate School of Design for the 2012-2013 academic year. Prior to EPA, Richards lived and worked in the former Soviet Republics from 1988 to 1995, helping environmental groups increase their organizational and political effectiveness. She holds a Masters of Science in Environmental Science and a Masters in Public Affairs from Indiana University. She is passionate about cycling, calling her tandem bike the family station wagon.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.: The Long View of the North American Landscape Frederick Steiner is the dean of the School of Architecture and Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin. He previously worked at the following institutions: Arizona State University, Washington State University, the University of Colorado at Denver, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting professor of landscape architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Steiner was a Fulbright- Hays scholar at Wageningen University, The Netherlands and a Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation at the American Academy in Rome. During 2013-2014, he was the William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. He is a Fellow of both the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Steiner was the second president of the new National Academy of Environmental Design and served as president of the Hill Country Conservancy. He previously served in various capacities on the boards of Envision Central Texas and the Landscape Architecture Foundation. He worked on the Austin Comprehensive Plan (Imagine Austin) and is currently working on the campus plan for The University of Texas at Austin. Steiner earned a Master of Community Planning and a B.S. in Design from the University of Cincinnati and his Ph.D. and M.A. in city and regional planning and a Master of Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Steiner also received an honorary M.Phil. in Human Ecology from the College of the Atlantic. Dean Steiner has published numerous articles and books. His most recent books include Urban Ecological Design (with Danilo Palazzo, 2011), Design for a Vulnerable Planet (2011), Planning and Urban Design Standards (Student Edition with Kent Butler, 2007), The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature (2006), and Human Ecology: Following Nature s Lead (2002).