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Kerry Spitzer Visiting Scholar, Mount Holyoke College PhD Candidate, MIT Kerry Spitzer is a Ph.D. student at MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Her research focuses on affordable housing policy and incarceration in the United States. Prior to coming to MIT, Kerry worked for over four years in New York City government. As a budget and policy analyst at the NYC Independent Budget Office she authored reports on the city’s juvenile justice system, jails, and supportive housing programs. Prior to her work at IBO, she was a project manager at the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development in the Inclusionary Housing Program. In addition, she has conducted research for the NYC Department of Homeless Services and Department of Corrections on the population of individuals who cycle between the jail and shelter system. She has also worked for the Supportive Housing Network of New York and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, where she co-authored
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Dr. Eric Gonzales Assistant Professor, College of Engineering Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Massachusetts Amherst Dr. Eric J. Gonzales joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Assistant Professor in January 2014. Dr. Gonzales has a research background in modeling of urban street networks, and his interests are in the operation, management, and design of large-scale multimodal transportation systems. He has research experience with modeling large-scale logistics systems including freight and transit networks, modeling and analysis of different structures of public transit networks and services, and analyzing the dynamics of traffic congestion in street networks. Dr. Gonzales was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers following completion of a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2011. He has been recognized with numerous awards including the University of California Transportation Center’s Outstanding Student of the Year Award for 2010-11 and the Gordon
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and assessing sustainability. At the University of Massachusetts he teaches Planning Tools and Techniques and co-teaches Planning and Judicial Law. Wayne’s Management of Local Government Planning is in press and his most recent publication was Assessing Sustainability (American Planning Association). He has also written on, planning issues of onsite wastewater treatment, financial performance guarantees, and planning on Native American reservations. Wayne has led or served on 23 American Institute for Architects design assessment teams as well as other assessment efforts from Vermont to Haiti. Wayne’s current German Marshall Fund Urban and Regional Policy Fellowship focuses on revitalizing small post-industrial cities. His past Eisenhower Fellowship to Hungary and Fulbright Specialist fellowships to South Africa and to New Zealand all focused on urban revitalization and sustainability. Wayne is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. His other
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Leigh Graham PhD Assistant Professor Urban Affairs, John Jay College, CUNY Doctoral faculty Environmental Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center Graham’s scholarship focuses on organizational, strategic and cultural conflict in urban development and during periods of crisis and change including after disasters. Her work has been published in Housing Policy Debate, Economic Development Quarterly, Industrial & Corporate Change, Solutions, and on the Poverty in America blog (now Economic Justice) at Change.org. She spent five years as a consultant on housing and neighborhood recovery in the post-Hurricane Katrina Gulf Coast. She has also advised non-profit clients on economic development issues and political advocacy efforts. Her clients have included The Ford Foundation, The Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, Alternatives for Community & Environment in Roxbury, MA, and the Women’s Dignity Project in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Graham also lead a technical assistance program for small businesses in Lower Manhattan after September 11th and was the Subject Matter Expert on small business recovery for the 9/11 United Services Group. Zube Lecture Series Lecture Zube Professor Graham has a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from MIT, an MBA from NYU, and a BA in Sociology from Brandeis University. Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:00 pm Procopio Room, Hills 105 Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Zube Lecture Series Institute for International Urban Development (I2UD) from theHarvard Graduatedesign SchoolofDesign. urban in architecture of master his and RISD from B.Arch. his received He Planners. Certified of Institute American the of member a and USA, the in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is at a registered Design architect and Planning Urban in Critic Design and Lecturer a Mr.wasKostaras 1998-2008, FromExcellence. of AwardCharter Urbanism New the forCongress the and Chapter Award Comprehensive Massachusetts Planning Association for Planning American the Design; Urban for Award Honor Architects of Institute American 2001 the with recognized been have projects His decline. economic povertyand by challenged andneighborhoods in cities projects regeneration urban major launched he years, 20 over for Massachusetts in director planning city- former and Authority Redevelopment Boston the at planner urban an As Conference inRecife, Brazil oninnovative urbandevelopment strategies. Lincolnbythe Institutefunded Business Land City of Smart 2013 the and Policy; change- driven waterclimate crisis and urbanizationthe in La Paz / Elon Alto, Bolivia, a 2012 research project September in Naples in Forum Urban World UN international conferences and universities worldwide, most recently at the 2012 at frequently Mr.lectures Kostaras work. his of focus major a is development community sustainable and planning urban through resiliency and adaptation organizations, in Haiti, Bolivia, Belize, Mexico, on has advised Chileprojects, He andfunded by UN-HABITAT, North Africa. the World (USA). Bank, the European Massachusetts Union Urbanand other Cambridge, climate in Development Urban James Kostaras is an urban development expert at the Institute for International Planning intheGlobalSouth: capacity ofcommunities inBelize Department ofLandscape Architecture and Regional Planning James KostarasJames Thursday, November 20,2014 Senior Fellow Procopio Room, Hills105 ulig the Building 4:00 pm
Ziying Tang, Co-founder/Principal Dong Zhang, Co-founder/Principal LARP MLA 2005 Z+T Studio, Shanghai, China Z+T Studio Landscape Architecture
We see Landscape Design as a way Ziying received a Master degree of Landscape to increase the happiness of Architecture from University of Massachusetts, people and society. Amherst in the USA, and a Master degree of Urban Planning and Environmental Design We see Landscape Design as a way from Peking University in China. She worked in Stephen Stimsion Associate (SSA), Landscape to convey our vison of a Architecture, MA, and Martha Schwartz Inc., creating landscape based on speci c site meaningful and full lling way of life. Boston until 2008. both domestically and internationally. This Dong received a Bachelor degree and a Master method is based on the core of Chinese We use diversi ed spaces and degree in Landscape Architecture from philosophy – subordinate to nature. We programs to enrich cultural and Chongqing University, School of Architecture. re ne nature by reproduce infrastructure recreational activities. He also received a Master degree in Landscape (pragmatic demand of engineer) based on Architecture from University of Massachusetts, reinforced culture (by space, symbol, and We use minimal design to Amherst, USA. He had worked at Chongqing form). encourage appreciation of sunlight, Landscape Institute, Turenscape and EDSA Z+T studio will keep in traditional hand-craft Orient in Beijing; Stephen Stimson Associate in shade, rainwater and plants. mode of production, which is a small size of Cape Cod, MA; Martha Schwartz Inc, Boston, studio for custom design. Designers need to MA. We deliver a unique outdoor be in companied with whole procedure from In 2009, Dong and Ziying founded Z+T Studio, concept design to site inspiration, and experience through our skilled use Landscape Architecture in Shanghai, China. coordinate with specialists and pro cient in of materials and craftsmanship. Z+T studio is seeking a design approach for di erent disciplines in details. Tuesday 11/25/14
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