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.

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. 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.

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. Retrofitting Suburbia featured in Time March 23, 2009, cover story Fellow of the Congress for the New Urbanism 71 on Planetizen's list of the Top 100 Most Influential Urbanists of All Time

In popular culture Dunham-Jones appeared as herself on the show Adam Ruins Everything.