Jane Jacobs was an American-Canadian journalist,author,theorist,and activist who influenced urban studies,sociology,and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that "urban renewal" and "slum clearance" did not respect the needs of city-dwellers.
Urban renewal is a program of land redevelopment often used to address urban decay in cities. Urban renewal involves the clearing out of blighted areas in inner cities in favour of new housing,businesses,and other developments.
Graduate School of Architecture,Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University,a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and prestigious architecture school. It is also home to the Masters of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design,Historic Preservation,Real Estate Development,Urban Design,and Urban Planning.
East Liberty is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania's East End. It is bordered by Highland Park,Morningside,Stanton Heights,Garfield,Friendship,Shadyside and Larimer,and falls largely within Pittsburgh City Council District 9,with a few areas in District 8. One of the most notable features in the East Liberty skyline is the East Liberty Presbyterian Church,which is an area landmark.
Lizabeth Cohen is the current Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies in the History Department at Harvard University,as well as a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. From 2011-2018 she served as the Dean of Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Currently,she teaches courses in 20th-century America,with a focus on urbanism,the built environment,and public history. She has also served as the Chair of the History Department at Harvard,director of the undergraduate program in history,and director of the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History,among other administrative duties.
The Los Angeles Conservancy is a historic preservation organization in Los Angeles,California. It works to document,rescue and revitalize historic buildings,places and neighborhoods in the city. The Conservancy is the largest membership based historic preservation organization in the country. The group was formed in 1978 to preserve Los Angeles Central Library,which was threatened with demolition. The organization has over 7000 members and 400 volunteers. There used to be a volunteer Modern Committee,dedicated to the preservation of postwar architecture as well as a Historic Theaters Committee that produces the annual "Last Remaining Seats" film series of classic films in the historic movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles. The executive director since 1992 has been Linda Dishman. The Conservancy hosts an annual preservation awards ceremony at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel and works closely with the business,political and development communities to find preservation solutions for historic buildings. Some of the Conservancy's biggest success stories have included Bullocks Wilshire,the Cathedral of Saint Vibiana,the Wiltern Theater and the oldest operating McDonald's in Downey,CA.
Louis Edward Sauer is a Canadian-American architect and design theorist of dual American and Canadian nationality,known for his role in the renewal in Society Hill,Philadelphia and his contributions to low-rise,high-density housing. Sauer worked with housing developers to produce low-rise high-density housing projects throughout the 1960s and 70s.
Dolores Hayden is an American professor emerita of architecture,urbanism,and American studies at Yale University. She is an urban historian,architect,author,and poet. Hayden has made innovative contributions to the understanding of the social importance of urban space and to the history of the built environment in the United States.
The Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse is a monumental courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut,located on the east side of the New Haven Green. Built between 1913 and 1919,the structure was spared from a planned demolition in the 1960s,and instead renovated to continue its useful life. For many decades,it also served as a post office,although the post office moved to another location in 1979. It is an excellent example of Classical Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Frederick R. "Fritz" Steiner is an American ecologist who currently serves as the Dean and Paley Professor for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design,having succeeded Marilyn Jordan Taylor in 2016. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Academy in Rome. He teaches courses in the areas of landscape analysis,landscape architecture theory,and environmental impact assessment. His specialization is in ecological planning,historic preservation,environmental design,green building,and regional planning.
Brenda A. Levin is a Los Angeles-based architect and advocate for historic preservation. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA),her major projects include the restoration of iconic L.A. landmarks like the Bradbury Building,the Griffith Observatory,the Wiltern Theatre,City Hall,Grand Central Market,and Dodger Stadium.
Daphna Greenstein is an Israeli architect and landscape architect. Greenstein professioned in various design and planning aspects:landscape architecture,environmental design,and architecture. She specialized in designing a wide range of projects in the public realm.
Dana Hudkins Crawford is an American architectural conservation developer and preservationist working in Denver,Colorado. She has been involved in almost every renovation project in downtown Denver,from the initial designation of the LoDo District and creation of Larimer Square to the Union Station. She was recognized by her alma mater,Radcliffe College,for the Larimer Square project,was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame,and in 2013 the hotel at the restoration project of Union Station was renamed as the Crawford Hotel in honor of her contributions to preserve the history of Denver.
Antoinette Forrester Downing was an American architectural historian and preservationist who wrote the standard reference work on historical houses in Rhode Island. She is credited with spearheading a movement that saved many of Providence's historic buildings from demolition in the mid 20th century and for her leadership was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1978.
Lynn Meskell is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who currently works as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Achva Benzinberg Stein is a landscape architect,a founding principal of the landscape architecture and design firm Benzinberg Stein Associates. She is also the founding director of the Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture at City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture.
Preservation Pittsburgh is a non-profit advocacy group founded in 1991 to support the preservation of historic,architectural,cultural,and environmental sites and buildings within Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.
Sara Zewde is an American landscape architect,co-founder of Studio Zewde,and assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Andrea R. Roberts is an American educator,researcher,college professor,guest speaker,and planning historian,who is an associate professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning for cultural planning at the University of Virginia. Her research centers around intentional communities built by Black people. She is Co-director Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia. She founded The Texas Freedom Colonies Project in 2014. Her work centers around unrecorded histories and endangered historic black settlements,towns known also as freedom colonies founded in 1866–1930. Roberts is a 6th generation Texan. Her ancestors were enslaved Africans that founded freedom colonies.
Susan M. Ross,OAQ,MRAIC,FAPT,is a Canadian architect,educator,and academic who has held positions in multiple Canadian universities and worked nationally and internationally. She is known for her publications and teachings in sustainable Heritage Conservation in Canada. Her research into sustainable heritage conservation is expansive and ranges from understanding historic urban infrastructure landscapes to discerning the intersection of heritage and waste through deconstruction and reuse. Ross was inducted into the College of Fellows of the Association for Preservation Technology in 2013.
