"Health and the City" - Professor Anne Vernez Moudon
Organized by The Centre for the Future of Places, the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson foundation
International Guest Faculty “Athena Lecture Series” presents Professor Anne Vernez Moudon: "Health and the City"
Anne Vernez Moudon is Professor Emerita of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design and Planning; Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology
and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she directs the Urban Form Lab (UFL http://depts.washington.edu/ufl/). She holds a BArch (University of California, Berkeley), and a Doctor ès Science (École Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland). Dr. Moudon was President of the International Seminar on Urban Morphology (ISUF).
Dr. Moudon lectured at many universities and consulted with organizations in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. She published articles in urban design, transportation, and public health journals. Her books and monographs include Built for Change: Neighborhood Architecture in San Francisco (MIT Press 1986), Public Streets for Public Use (Columbia University Press 1991), Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems (with M. Hubner, John Wiley & Sons, 2000), Master-Planned Communities: Shaping Exurbs in the 1990s (with B. Wiseman and K.J. Kim, APA Bookstore, 1992) and Urban Design: Reshaping Our Cities (with W. Attoe, UW College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1995).