Ellen Dunham-Jones (born January 27, 1959) is an architectural educator and urbanist 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, graduating with an AB in architecture and planning in 1980 and a Master of Architecture in 1983. She is a registered architect in New York State.

Career

She is a professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, where she also serves as director of its MS in Urban Design 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's March 23, 2009, cover story
  • Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism
  • #71 on Planetizen'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.[unreliable source?]

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