Ellen Dunham-Jones

Ellen Dunham-Jones (born January 27, 1959) is an architectural educator and urbanist best known for her work on re-educating the public how to interact with their environment. She is also an authority on suburban redevelopment.^[1]

Ellen Dunham-Jones
Born	(1959-01-17) January 17, 1959 (age 66)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Architect
Academic background
Alma mater	Princeton University School of Architecture
Academic work
Discipline	Architecture
Institutions	Georgia Tech

Education

Ellen Dunham-Jones studied at Princeton University, graduating with an AB in architecture and planning in 1980 and a Master of Architecture in 1983.^[2] She is a registered architect in New York State.

Career

She is a professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech, where she also serves as director of its MS in Urban Design Program in the College of Design.^[2]

Work

Dunham-Jones and June Williamson co-authored Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs which was awarded the Architecture & Urban Planning category of the 2009 PROSE Award.^[3]

Awards and professional leadership

• PROSE Award, 2009 for Professional and Scholarly Excellence from the Association of American Publishers as the 2009 best book of the year in architecture and urban planning.^[4]
• Retrofitting Suburbia featured in Time's March 23, 2009, cover story^[5]
• Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism^[6]
• #71 on Planetizen's list of the Top 100 Most Influential Urbanists of All Time^[7]

In popular culture

Dunham-Jones appeared as herself on the show Adam Ruins Everything.^{[8][unreliable source?]}