Douglas Lynn Farr is an American architect and urban planner. Farr was born in
Detroit
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,
Michigan
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and received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the
University of Michigan
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in
Ann Arbor and his master's from
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
In 1991, Farr founded Farr Associates Architecture and Urban Design, Inc., a sustainable architectural and planning firm in Chicago, Illinois.
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Farr is Vice Chair of the board for the Congress for the New Urbanism
New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually inf ...
, a member of the LEED Steering Committee and was the inaugural chair of the LEED for Neighborhood Development committee. He is the founder of the 2030 Communities Campaign that seeks to reduce vehicle miles traveled. In 2007 he authored '' Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature''.
Further reading
*Farr, Douglas (2007). ''Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design With Nature''. Hoboken: Wiley.
Chicago MagazineRodkin, Dennis. "The Stalwart."''Chicago Magazine'' April 2008: 93. Tribune Company.
Concrete Thinker
External links
* ttp://www.farrside.com Farr Associates
References
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New Urbanism
American urban planners
Living people
20th-century American architects
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning alumni
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
21st-century American architects
Architects from Detroit
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Michigan alumni