I am working with Professor Matt Kubik, architect, on the connection between social issues and the built environment. Specifically, we are looking at how competing political ideologies shape different design strategies and interactions with the bui
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I am working with Professor Matt Kubik, architect, on the connection between social issues and the built environment. Specifically, we are looking at how competing political ideologies shape different design strategies and interactions with the built environment. We taught a nationally-televised honors course that examined how modernism has created an urban built environment in the U.S. that undermines sociality and community and explored possible alternatives in new urbanism and social ecology. Recently, in connection with an exhibit of first edition famous printed works, we taught a mini-course that examined how foundational ideologies in Western thought are expressed in the built environment. I have published a number of articles on the political economy of suburban development as well as analysis of the concept of community.
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