Recent News

July 2016   Appointed Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs

Sep 2015   Assistant Professor, Urban Landscape, at Northeastern University School of Architecture

Sep 2015   Completed PhD in Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

May 2015   "Who’s Smart? Whose City? The Sociopolitics of Urban Intelligence" published in Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities, edited by Geertman, Ferreira, Goodspeed, and Stillwell

Mar 2015   Book chapter, "Place/Out: Planning for Radical Queer Activism," published in Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces, edited by Petra Doan

Dec 2014   Article co-authored with Larry Vale and Shomon Shamsuddin on the state of rebuilding in Banda Aceh is published in Places Journal on the 10th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami

Nov 2014   Facilitated a working group on urban design and infrastructure at the Carmin Symposium on Urban Climate Adaptation at MIT DUSP. Many thanks to organizer Linda Shi and all JoAnn's students

Nov 2014   Guest lecture on design for climate change for Neil Brenner's Urban Interventions class at Harvard GSD

Oct 2014   Presented dissertation research on urban adaptation in Jakarta on a panel at the ACSP conference in Philadelphia

Sep 2014   Attended Deltas in Times of Climate Change conference in Rotterdam, organized by Connecting Delta Cities

Jun-Jul 2014   Research fieldwork in Rotterdam, Bangkok, Banda Aceh, and Jakarta

May 2014   Taught an urban design workshop on "Making City" in New York City, exploring the relationship between urban design and maker culture, co-organized by Parsons The New School for Design and INDA, Chulalongkorn University

May 2014   Moderated a panel on design for resilient coastal cities at MIT Sustainability Summit

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Photo: New house, old plot, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Text & photos by me unless otherwise noted