Eugenie L. Birch

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Eugenie L. Birch is an American scholar and city planner specializing in international and domestic planning history and urban revitalization.

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Academic posts

Birch is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and the Chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the Co-Director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research and co-editor, University of Pennsylvania's City in the 21st Century series. [1]

Appointments

Birch has served as the President for the International Planning History Society [2] and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning History , and Planning Perspectives . Birch is the co-editor, with Susan Wachter, of the Social Science Research Network Urban Research eJournal. She served as chair of the Planning Accreditation Board from 2004-2006. [3] She has also been President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the President of the Society of American City and Regional Planning History. [4] [5] In 2000, Birch was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners and made a member (honorary) of the Royal Town Planning Institute. [6]

Birch has held past teaching appointments at Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, CUNY Graduate Center, and Hunter College, and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand and Yale University.

Birch's civic commitments include serving as chair, Board of Directors, Municipal Art Society of New York. [7] She is chair, UN-HABITAT's World Urban Campaign. [8] and the president, General Assembly of Partners (GAP), a civic engagement platform engaged in the preparations for the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development. In the early 1990s she was a member of the City Planning Commission, New York City and in 2002, she served on the jury to select the designers for the World Trade Center site.

Education & awards

Birch received a bachelor's degree in History cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and a Master's and Ph.D. in Urban Planning from Columbia University. She held a Fulbright Fellowship to Ecuador. She is a recipient of the Journalism Prize of the American Planning Association (1994), the Margarita McCoy Award for Outstanding Contribution to Furthering Women in the Planning Academy (1994), the Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service (2006), the Planning Distinguished Educator Award (2009), the Lawrence Gerckens Award for Excellence in Planning History (2009), and the American Planning Association's President Award (2013). [9] [10] [11] [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "PennDesign | Eugenie L. Birch". Design.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  2. ↑ "IPHS - About the IPHS". Planninghistory.org. Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-20. Retrieved 2013-07-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ↑ "Governing Documents & Archives | ACSP: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning". ACSP. Archived from the original on 2013-07-09. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  5. ↑ "Past Board Members". SACRPH. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  6. ↑ "Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners". Planning.org. 2013-06-26. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  7. ↑ "MAS Board of Directors 2012-2013 – The Municipal Art Society of New York". Mas.org. Archived from the original on 2013-09-06. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  8. ↑ ". World Urban Campaign | Biography". Un-Habitat. 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  9. ↑ Birch, Eugenie L. (2007). "2006 Jay Chatterjee Award for Distinguished Service". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 26 (3): 369. doi:10.1177/0739456X07300017. S2CID   144380189.
  10. ↑ "Eugenie Birch Receives 2013 APA President's Award". SACRPH. 2013-04-16. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
  11. ↑ "Gerckens Prize". SACRPH. Retrieved 2013-07-18.
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