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Ellen Dunham-Jones Biography

Ellen Dunham-Jones is Coordinator of the MS in Urban Design. She teaches “Theories of Urban Design,” “Retrofitting Suburbia” and urban design studios.

A leading authority on suburban redevelopment, she and June Williamson wrote Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. The book documents successful retrofits of vacant big box stores, dead malls, aging office parks, etc., into more sustainable places. The book received the PROSE award from the American Association of Publishers as best architecture/urban planning book of 2009, was featured in Time Magazine’s March 23, 2009 cover story, “10 ideas changing the world right now” and is the subject of her 2010 TED talk and 2012 TED-NPR Radio Hour interview. She appeared in the 2011 documentary Urbanized, the 2012 PBS series “Designing Healthy Communities” and was recently interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition, in anticipation of the National Bike Summit, and for AIA Atlanta’s Shoptalk series. She continues to build her database of suburban retrofits, lecture widely, and is working on a follow-up book on successful strategies for retrofitting suburbs to meet 21st century challenges.

Ellen’s published over 60 additional papers linking contemporary architectural theory and practice. “Irrational Exuberance: Rem Koolhaas in the Nineties” in the 2013 book Architecture and Capitalism was named one of the ten most popular essays of 2013 by The Design Observer Group.

She has served in several national leadership roles including Board Chair of the Congress for the New Urbanism, AIA Design and Health Leadership Group, the Hanley Wood Sustainability Council, and the advisory boards of the Journal of Urbanism, Places, (in)Forma, the Livability Index, and is chair of the board of Commons Planning. In 2015 she was honored to be inducted in the inaugural classes of both the Brooks Byers Institute of Sustainable Systems Fellows at Georgia Tech and the CNU Fellows.

She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Princeton University and taught at UVA and MIT before joining Georgia Tech’s faculty to serve as Director of the Architecture Program from 2001-2009.

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Ellen Dunham-Jones Speaking Topics

Retrofitting Suburbia

As suburbs and small towns age, they are facing challenges they were never designed for. These include a shrinking middle class, an aging population, an affordable housing crisis, flooding and wildfires brought on by climate change, increased traffic and reduced access to nature, rising poverty levels alongside underperforming infrastructure and decreased tax revenue due to the increasing number of dead malls, dying office parks, and near vacant strip malls. Yet, it is exactly these type of obsolescent parking-lot dominated properties that provide communities with the opportunities to address their challenges.

Drawing on the speaker's database of over 2,500 suburban retrofits, a viral TED talk, and two award-winning books, the speaker will illustrate the three main retrofit strategies: redevelopment into walkable, mixed-use communities, reinhabitation with more community-serving uses, and regreening to create new amenities and repair the local ecology. She will customize the talk with 15-25 successful case studies that are particularly applicable to the challenges that the audience is wrestling with and show them how to layer multiple solutions through effective design. Attendees will come away inspired, optimistic, and ready to both imagine and implement change.
What Would a Non-Sexist Suburb be Like?

The massive suburbanization of the US in the second half of the 20th Century established an idealized model of the commute-to-work Dad, the stay-at-home wife, and 2.5 kids and a dog. The government thanked Rosie the Riveter for building tanks at custom-built factory towns with 24-hour daycare and take-out food kitchens. In an explicitly sexist division of labor, she was told her patriotic duty now was to give the job back to the men, get married, move to a starter home in the suburbs, and become Mrs.Consumer. That version of the American Dream spread such that 75% of urbanized land in the US is zoned exclusively for single-family houses. Yet, today 80% of women with a full-time job have children in the home • in part because home ownership has required a dual-income household for two generations. While men are doing more caring for the children and home than they used do. Women still carry the bulk of the burden of the triple shift, working at a job, caring for children and the home, and caring for parents. So, why are we still building that model of suburbia?

More women than men are graduating from college and aspiring to the big job AND the big house in the 'burbs. Yet, they are also self-limiting their job selection so as to be close enough to the school in case a child gets sick. Who is best served by this monoculture model of single-use, single-size subdivisions where every trip must be made by car? How can we better integrate care and independence for those in need into the design of our neighborhoods? How can we retrofit suburbs to build the social capital needed to realize the goals of "It takes a village..."? What can we learn from other countries about gender mainstreaming and city planning for women?

The speaker's presentation will inform the audience about how the current model has evolved by policy more than consumer demand and provoke them to recognize the impacts of neighborhood form on their own behavior. The audience will be encouraged to share their own experiences either during Q&A or in a follow-up workshop.

Ellen Dunham-Jones Videos

Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia

http://www.ted.com Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years' big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come:...
The Weitzman School of Design Presents Ellen Dunham-Jones

The Department of City and Regional Planning welcomed Ellen Dunham-Jones, professor of architecture and urban design at Georgia Tech.
Ellen Dunham-Jones Lecture University of Tennessee

Lecture was hosted by the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design on Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

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How do I book Ellen Dunham-Jones to speak at my event?

Our experienced booking agents have successfully helped clients around the world secure speakers like Ellen Dunham-Jones for speaking engagements, personal appearances, product endorsements, or corporate entertainment since 2002. Click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page to check availability for Ellen Dunham-Jones, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536 to discuss your upcoming event. One of our experienced agents will be happy to help you get speaking fee information and check availability for Ellen Dunham-Jones or any other speaker of your choice.
What are the speaker fees for Ellen Dunham-Jones

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What topics does Ellen Dunham-Jones speak about?

Ellen Dunham-Jones is a keynote speaker and industry expert whose speaking topics include Architecture, Design, Education, Influential Women, Manufacturing, Professors, Research & Exploration.
Where does Ellen Dunham-Jones travel from?

Ellen Dunham-Jones generally travels from Atlanta, GA, USA, but can be booked for private corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. For more details, please contact an AAE Booking agent.
Who is Ellen Dunham-Jones’s agent?

AAE Speakers Bureau has successfully booked keynote speakers like Ellen Dunham-Jones for clients worldwide since 2002. As a full-service speaker booking agency, we have access to virtually any speaker or celebrity in the world. Our agents are happy and able to submit an offer to the speaker or celebrity of your choice, letting you benefit from our reputation and long-standing relationships in the industry. Please click the Check Availability button above and complete the form on this page including the details of your event, or call our office at 1.800.698.2536, and one of our agents will assist you to book Ellen Dunham-Jones for your next private or corporate function.
What is a full-service speaker booking agency?

AAE Speakers Bureau is a full-service speaker booking agency, meaning we can completely manage the speaker’s or celebrity’s engagement with your organization from the time of booking your speaker through the event’s completion. We provide all of the services you need to host Ellen Dunham-Jones or any other speaker of your choice, including offer negotiation, contractual assistance, accounting and billing, and event speaker travel and logistics services. When you book a speaker with us, we manage the process of hosting a speaker for you as an extension of your team. Our goal is to give our clients peace of mind and a best-in-class service experience when booking a speaker with us.
Why is AAE Speakers Bureau different from other booking agencies?

If you’re looking for the best, unbiased speaker recommendations, paired with a top-notch customer service experience, you’re in the right place. At AAE Speakers Bureau, we exclusively represent the interests of our clients - professional organizations, companies, universities, and associations. We intentionally do not represent the speakers we feature or book. That is so we can present our clients with the broadest and best performing set of speaker options in the market today, and we can make these recommendations without any obligation to promote a specific speaker over another. This is why when our agents suggest a speaker for your event, you can be assured that they are of the highest quality with a history of proven success with our other clients.

Ellen Dunham-Jones is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Retrofitting Suburbia and What Would a Non-Sexist Suburb be Like?. The estimated speaking fee range to book Ellen Dunham-Jones for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Ellen Dunham-Jones generally travels from Atlanta, GA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Patrick M. Condon, Douglas Farr, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Timothy Beatley and Jeff Speck. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Ellen Dunham-Jones for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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