Retrofitting Suburban Atlanta

Citation: Dunham-Jones, Ellen. “Retrofitting Suburban Atlanta.” Atlanta Studies. September 25, 2018. https://doi.org/10.18737/atls20180925.

Ellen Dunham-Jones, professor of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, delivered the Cliff Kuhn Memorial Keynote Lecture at the sixth annual Atlanta Studies Symposium, held at the Robert W. Woodruff Library at Emory University on April 20, 2018.

Dunham-Jones is an authority on sustainable suburban redevelopment and the co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. In her keynote lecture, below, Dunham-Jones examined the changing shape and demographics of Atlanta’s suburbs.

 

Karen Beck Pooley is a Professor of Practice of Political Science and co-directs the Small Cities Lab at Lehigh University. She also serves as the Director of Research and Analytics at czb LLC, an urban planning and neighborhood revitalization consulting firm. She previously ran Allentown’s Redevelopment Authority and was a Deputy Director within New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Wellesley College, a Master of Urban Planning & Policy from New School University’s Milano Graduate School, and a Ph.D. in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.