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Billy Fleming is a landscape architect, 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.

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.[2]

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.[3]

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[4] by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders.[5]

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.[6] 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.

Selected publications

  • Design With Nature Now (with Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, and Karen M'Closkey, 2019) [7]
  • An Adaptation Blueprint (with Carolyn Kousky and Alan Berger, 2021)
  • "Design and the Green New Deal," Places Journal [8]
  • "To Rebuild Our Towns and Cities, We Need to Design a Green Stimulus," Jacobin Magazine [9]
  • "The Dutch Can't Save Us From Sea-Level Rise," CityLab [10]
  • "An Atlas for the Green New Deal," via the McHarg Center [11]

References

  1. ^ Saval, Nikil (2020-09-28). "Design for the Future When the Future Is Bleak". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  2. ^ "Billy Fleming". The McHarg Center. 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  3. ^ "Architects take Climate Action! Archinect speaks to practitioners and educators taking on the challenge of adapting to the climate emergency". Archinect. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  4. ^ "Green New Deal For Public Housing". Data For Progress. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  5. ^ "Bernie Sanders and AOC Unveil a Green New Deal for Public Housing". Bloomberg.com. 2019-11-14. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  6. ^ "Designing a Green New Deal | ASLA 2020 Student Awards". www.asla.org. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  7. ^ "Design with Nature Now". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2020-10-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Fleming, Billy (2019-04-16). "Design and the Green New Deal". Places Journal. doi:10.22269/190416.
  9. ^ "To Rebuild Our Towns and Cities, We Need to Design a Green Stimulus". jacobinmag.com. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  10. ^ "Why the U.S. Can't Approach Climate Adaptation Like the Netherlands". Bloomberg.com. 2018-10-17. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
  11. ^ "The 2100 Project: An Atlas for the Green New Deal". The McHarg Center. 2019-12-07. Retrieved 2020-10-19.
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