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Date of lecture: February 28, 2024
Abstract
As our urban areas get denser, how can we make transformative changes that recapture degraded or abandoned industrial land, convert roadways to pedestrian spaces, embed social and environmental justice into communities, prepare for future impacts of climate change, and make our environment more beautiful? By becoming a landscape architect!Examples of these transformations will be highlighted and inspire the next generation of our optimistic profession.
Bio
Signe Nielsen has been practicing as a landscape architect and urban designer in New York since 1978. Her body of work has renewed the environmental integrity and transformed the quality of spaces for those who live, work and play in the urban realm. Ms. Nielsen believes in using design as a vehicle for advocacy to promote discourse on social equity and community resilience and has served on multiple panels to effect positive change. A Fellow of the ASLA, she is the recipient of over 100 national and local design awards for public open space projects and is a Professor of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture at Pratt Institute. Born in Paris, Ms. Nielsen holds degrees in Urban Planning from Smith College; in Landscape Architecture from City College of New York; and in Construction Management from Pratt Institute.