Ann Forsyth

Trained in planning and architecture, Ann Forsyth focuses on the social aspects of physical planning, urban design, and urban development. A Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University, from 2002-2007 Forsyth was Director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota and Professor and Dayton Hudson Chair of Urban Design with appointments in both the architecture and landscape architecture departments. From 1999-2002 she was an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard Design School. Forsyth taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1993-1999 where she was co-founder and co-director of the Urban Places Project from 1995-2000. Forsyth has won over fifty awards, citations, and fellowships for individual and collaborative professional and research work. Her publications include articles, reviews, and chapters in planning, geography, and design. She has written three books: Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate Over Urban Growth (Gordon and Breach/Routledge, 1999), Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands (University of California Press, 2005), and Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns (with Laura Musacchio, Wiley, 2005). Forsyth received her B.Sc. in Architecture from the University of Sydney, an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell. She is a Certified practicing Planner in the Planning Institute of Australia.