Billy Fleming (landscape architect) explained

Billy Fleming is a landscape designer, city planner, and climate activist who currently serves as the Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He is the founding director of the Center and is known for fusing climate justice and policy work with the landscape architecture and planning professions.[1] He teaches, writes, lectures, and works on the intersection of climate change and the built environment, often through the policy framework known as the Green New Deal. He was one of the key instigators and organizers of the "Green New Deal Superstudio."[2]

Education

Fleming earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, followed by a Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Formerly, he was a policy adviser in the White House Domestic Policy Council during the Obama Administration, a co-author of the Indivisible Guide, a co-creator of the Data Refuge Project, and worked briefly as a landscape designer, city planner, and community organizer.[3]

He became the founding Wilks Family Director of the McHarg Center in 2017, where he's led a variety of public research projects, events, and coursework dedicated to the Green New Deal and its role in bringing climate justice into the design professions.[4]

In 2018, he became a Senior Fellow with Data for Progress where he contributed to the publication of low-carbon public housing policy briefs tied to the “Green New Deal for Public Housing Act” introduced in 2019[5] by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders.[6]

In 2019, he worked with Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, and Karen M'Closkey to organize Design With Nature Now to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg's landmark book. The celebration involved a conference, three exhibitions, a book, and a special issue of the journal Socio-Ecological Practice Research.

In 2020, his studio teaching won the Award of Excellence in Student Collaboration from the American Society of Landscape Architects.[7] The studio's work served as the template for the Green New Deal Superstudio collaboration between ASLA, the Landscape Architecture Foundation, the McHarg Center, Columbia, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.[8]

Selected publications

References

  1. News: Saval. Nikil. 2020-09-28. Design for the Future When the Future Is Bleak. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-10-19. 0362-4331.
  2. Web site: Staff . L. A. M. . 2022-04-07 . The Year of the Superstudio . 2022-05-21 . Landscape Architecture Magazine . en-US.
  3. Web site: 2017-10-13. Billy Fleming. 2020-10-19. The McHarg Center. en.
  4. Web site: Architects take Climate Action! Archinect speaks to practitioners and educators taking on the challenge of adapting to the climate emergency. 2020-10-19. Archinect. en.
  5. Web site: Green New Deal For Public Housing. 2020-10-19. Data For Progress. en-US.
  6. News: 2019-11-14. Bernie Sanders and AOC Unveil a Green New Deal for Public Housing. en. Bloomberg.com. 2020-10-19.
  7. Web site: Designing a Green New Deal ASLA 2020 Student Awards. 2020-10-19. www.asla.org.
  8. Web site: Home. 2021-02-23. www.gndsuperstudio.com. en-US.
  9. Book: Design with Nature Now. 978-1558443938. Steiner. Frederick R.. 2019.
  10. Web site: A Blueprint for Coastal Adaptation. 2021-02-23. Island Press. en.
  11. Fleming. Billy. 2019-04-16. Design and the Green New Deal. Places Journal. 2019 . en-US. 10.22269/190416. free.
  12. Web site: To Rebuild Our Towns and Cities, We Need to Design a Green Stimulus. 2020-10-19. jacobinmag.com. en-US.
  13. News: 2018-10-17. Why the U.S. Can't Approach Climate Adaptation Like the Netherlands. en. Bloomberg.com. 2020-10-19.
  14. Web site: 2019-12-07. The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal. 2020-10-19. The McHarg Center. en.
  15. Web site: Fleming. Billy. A Stimulus Plan for the Planet. 2021-02-23. Los Angeles Review of Books. 18 May 2020 .
  16. Fleming . Billy . January 2022 . Crises and Contestations: The Promise and Peril of Designing a Green New Deal . Architectural Design . en . 92 . 1 . 20–27 . 10.1002/ad.2769 . 245723384 . 0003-8504.
  17. Fleming . Billy . 2021-07-03 . Frames and Fictions: Designing a Green New Deal Studio Sequence . Journal of Architectural Education . 75 . 2 . 192–201 . 10.1080/10464883.2021.1947673 . 237436210 . 1046-4883. free .

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