Plenary Lecture
Energy Balance, Health and Environment
Professor Anne Vernez Moudon
University of Washington
Department of urban Design and Planning
Box 355740
Seattle, WA 98195
Email: moudon@u.washington.edu
Abstract:
To be announced
Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Anne Vernez Moudon is Professor 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
also directs the Urban Form Lab (UFL). Dr. Moudon holds a B.Arch. (Honors)
from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Doctor es Science from the
Ecole
Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Moudon was past-President
of the International Seminar on Urban Morphology (ISUF), a Faculty Associate
at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, in Cambridge, MA; and a Fellow of
the Urban Land Institute in Washington, D.C. She is a National Advisor to the
Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation program on Active Living Policy and Environmental
Studies.
The UFL specializes in the spatial analysis of the built environment using
micro-scale data in Geographic Information Systems. This urban form research
addresses such topics as land monitoring, neighborhood and street design, non-motorized
transportation, physical activity, and access to food environments. The work
has been supported by the U.S. and Washington State Departments of Transportation,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,
the National Institutes of Health, and local agencies.
Dr. Moudon’s has published many articles in urban design, transportation,
and public health journals. Her books include Built for Change: Neighborhood
Architecture in San Francisco (MIT Press 1986), Public Streets for Public Use
(Columbia University Press 1991), and Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic
Information Systems (with M. Hubner, John Wiley & Sons, 2000). She also
published several monographs, such as Master-Planned Communities: Shaping Exurbs
in the 1990s (with B. Wiseman and K.J. Kim, distributed by the APA Bookstore,
1992) and Urban Design: Reshaping Our Cities (with W. Attoe, University of Washington,
College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 1995).
