Ann Forsyth, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University
Trained in planning and architecture, Ann Forsyth's work focuses on the social aspects of physical planning, urban design, and urban development. Her major research has focused on the issue of good urban form, specifically attempts to create more active, affordable, diverse, and sustainable environments.
Forsyth has practiced professionally as a planner in both the US and Australia and has won over fifty awards, citations, and fellowships for individual and collaborative professional and research work. These include a Fulbright scholarship and national awards from the American Planning Association, American Institute of Certified Planners, American Society of Landscape Architects, and Planning Institute of Australia. She has received funding from a number of sources including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Federal Highway Administration, USDA Forest Service, US HUD, Lincoln Land Institute, and Graham Foundation. Forsyth has been review editor of the Journal of Planning Education and Research, a co-editor of Planning Theory journal, and is currently a co-editor of Progressive Planning Magazine. Overall, her publications include the three books and over ninety reviews, monographs, chapters, and articles in planning, geography, and design journals.
Before joining Cornell, Forsyth was Director of the Metropolitan Design Center at the University of Minnesota and Professor and Dayton Hudson Chair of Urban Design with appointments in both the architecture and landscape architecture departments Forsyth was co-founder and co-director of the Urban Places Project from 1995-2000. From 1999-2002 she was an Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard Design School. Forsyth taught at the University of Massachusetts from 1993-1999 and has had visiting appointments at Columbia University, the University of Sydney, and Macquarie University.
She received her B.Sc. in Architecture from the University of Sydney, an M.A. in Urban Planning from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell. She is a Certified practicing Planner in the Planning Institute of Australia.
For additional information, see Ann Forsyth's biography at Cornell
Ann Forsyth is part of the research faculty team leading the Design for Health project.
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