Billy Fleming (landscape architect)

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Billy Fleming is a landscape designer, city planner, and climate activist who currently serves as the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He is the founding director of the Center and is known for fusing climate justice and policy work with the landscape architecture and planning professions. [1] He teaches, writes, lectures, and works on the intersection of climate change and the built environment, often through the policy framework known as the Green New Deal. He was one of the key instigators and organizers of the "Green New Deal Superstudio." [2]

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Education

Fleming earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, followed by a Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Formerly, he was a policy adviser in the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Obama Administration, a co-author of the Indivisible Guide, a co-creator of the Data Refuge Project, and worked briefly as a landscape designer, city planner, and community organizer. [3]

He became the founding Wilks Family Director of the McHarg Center in 2017, where he's led a variety of public research projects, events, and coursework dedicated to the Green New Deal and its role in bringing climate justice into the design professions. [4] Fleming also serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Architectural Education, which is the flagship, peer-reivewed journal of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture. [5] Along with Rania Ghosn, his work there includes a special issue of the journal titled "Worlding. Energy. Transitions." [6]

In 2018, he became a Senior Fellow with Data for Progress where he contributed to the publication of low-carbon public housing policy briefs tied to the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act” introduced in 2019 [7] by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders. [8]

In 2019, he worked with Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, and Karen M'Closkey to organize Design With Nature Now to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's landmark book. The celebration involved a conference, three exhibitions, a book, and a special issue of the journal Socio-Ecological Practice Research.

In 2020, his studio teaching won the Award of Excellence in Student Collaboration from the American Society of Landscape Architects. [9] The studio's work served as the template for the Green New Deal Superstudio collaboration between ASLA, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, the McHarg Center, Columbia, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. [10]

In 2021, he partnered with Daniel Aldana Cohen to create the Climate and Community Institute, an ecosocialist think-tank dedicated to connecting progressive policy-makers, leaders of the climate and housing justice movements, and leading scholars to develop new research and legislation aimed at tackling the polycrisis. [11]

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  1. ↑ Saval, Nikil (2020-09-28). "Design for the Future When the Future Is Bleak". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  2. ↑ Staff, L. A. M. (2022-04-07). "The Year of the Superstudio". Landscape Architecture Magazine. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  3. ↑ "Billy Fleming". The McHarg Center. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  4. ↑ "Architects take Climate Action! Archinect speaks to practitioners and educators taking on the challenge of adapting to the climate emergency". Archinect. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  5. ↑ "Editorial Board". www.jaeonline.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  6. ↑ Fleming, Billy; Ghosn, Rania (2024-07-02). "(Un)Making Worlds". Journal of Architectural Education. 78 (2): 266–270. doi:10.1080/10464883.2024.2381420. ISSN   1046-4883.
  7. ↑ "Green New Deal For Public Housing". Data For Progress. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  8. ↑ "Bernie Sanders and AOC Unveil a Green New Deal for Public Housing". Bloomberg.com. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
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  10. ↑ "Home". www.gndsuperstudio.com. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  11. ↑ "Climate & Community Institute". Climate & Community Institute. 2024-09-25. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  12. ↑ Steiner, Frederick R. (2019). Design with Nature Now. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, published. ISBN   978-1558443938.
  13. ↑ "A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation". Island Press. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  14. ↑ Fleming, Billy (2019-04-16). "Design and the Green New Deal". Places Journal (2019). doi: 10.22269/190416 .
  15. ↑ "To Rebuild Our Towns and Cities, We Need to Design a Green Stimulus". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
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  17. ↑ "The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal". The McHarg Center. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  18. ↑ Fleming, Billy (18 May 2020). "A Stimulus Plan for the Planet". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  19. ↑ Fleming, Billy (January 2022). "Crises and Contestations: The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal". Architectural Design. 92 (1): 20–27. doi:10.1002/ad.2769. ISSN   0003-8504. S2CID   245723384.
  20. ↑ Fleming, Billy (2021-07-03). "Frames and Fictions: Designing a Green New Deal Studio Sequence". Journal of Architectural Education. 75 (2): 192–201. doi: 10.1080/10464883.2021.1947673 . ISSN   1046-4883. S2CID   237436210.
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  23. ↑ "Field Notes Toward an Internationalist Green New Deal | Field Notes Toward an Internationalist Green New Deal". internationalistgreennewdeal.org. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
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  25. ↑ "Log 60: The Sixth Sphere". Anyone Corporation. Retrieved 2024-09-25.
  26. ↑ Fleming, Billy; Ghosn, Rania (2024-07-02). "(Un)Making Worlds". Journal of Architectural Education. 78 (2): 266–270. doi:10.1080/10464883.2024.2381420. ISSN   1046-4883.
  27. ↑ Fleming, Billy; Story, Brett; Kassie, Emily; Brave NoiseCat, Julian (2024-07-02). "In Conversation with Brett Story, Emily Kassie, and Julian Brave NoiseCat". Journal of Architectural Education. 78 (2): 385–396. doi:10.1080/10464883.2024.2383103. ISSN   1046-4883.
  28. ↑ Fleming, Billy; Stelly, Amy; Hanusik, Virginia (2024-07-02). "In Conversation with Amy Stelly and Virginia Hanusik". Journal of Architectural Education. 78 (2): 512–524. doi:10.1080/10464883.2024.2383100. ISSN   1046-4883.
  29. ↑ Hanusik, Virginia (August 2024). Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana. Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. ISBN   978-1-941332-82-5.
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