Ellen Dunham-Jones (born January 27, 1959) is an architectural educator and

urbanist Urbanism is the study of how inhabitants of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment. It is a direct component of disciplines such as urban planning, which is the profession focusing on the physical design and m ...

best known for her work on re-educating the public how to interact with their environment. She is also an authority on suburban redevelopment.

Education

Ellen Dunham-Jones studied at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

, graduating with an AB in architecture and planning in 1980 and a

Master of Architecture The “Master of Architecture”(M.Arch or MArch) or a “Bachelor of Architecture” is a professional degree in architecture, qualifying the graduate to move through the various stages of professional accreditation (internship, exams) that res ...

in 1983. She is a registered architect in New York State.

Career

She is a professor in the School of Architecture at

Georgia Tech The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

, where she also serves as director of its MS in

Urban Design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban d ...

Program in the College of Design.

Work

Dunham-Jones and June Williamson co-authored ''Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs'' which was awarded the Architecture & Urban Planning category of the 2009 PROSE Award.

Awards and professional leadership

* PROSE Award, 2009 for Professional and Scholarly Excellence from the Association of American Publishers as the 2009 best book of the year in architecture and urban planning. * ''Retrofitting Suburbia'' featured in ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, ...

'' March 23, 2009, cover story * Fellow of 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 ...

* #71 on

Planetizen Planetizen is a planning-related news website and e-learning platform based in Los Angeles, California. It features user-submitted and editor-evaluated news and weekly user-contributed op-eds about urban planning and several related fields. The ...

's list of the Top 100 Most Influential Urbanists of All Time

In popular culture

Dunham-Jones appeared as herself on the show ''

Adam Ruins Everything ''Adam Ruins Everything'' is an American educational comedy television series starring Adam Conover that ran from 2015 through 2019 on TruTV. The series endeavors to debunk common misconceptions held by the public on a variety of topics. Premise ...

''.

References

External links

Georgia Tech School of Architecture Profile Page
Living people American architects American women architects New Classical architects Princeton University School of Architecture alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Georgia Tech faculty Architecture educators American women academics 21st-century American women 1959 births {{US-architect-stub