Ann Forsyth

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Wikipedia

Ann Forsyth is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.[1]

In 2018, Forsyth won the Margarita McCoy Award for the Advancement of Women in Planning. The award, by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Faculty Women's Interest Group, recognizes "individuals who have made an outstanding contribution toward the advancement of women in planning at institutions of higher education through service, teaching, and/or research."[2]

Books

  • Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns (Wiley, 2005)[3]
  • Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and The Woodlands (University of California Press, 2005)[4]
  • Creating Healthy Neighborhoods: Evidence‑Based Planning and Design Strategies (Routledge / American Planning Association, 2017)
  • Constructing Suburbs: Competing Voices in a Debate over Urban Growth (Routledge, 1999)[5]
  • New Towns for the Twenty‑First Century: A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide (co‑editor) (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021)[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Ann Forsyth". November 4, 2025.
  2. ↑ "A Closer Look with Ann Forsyth".
  3. ↑ Forsyth, Ann; Musacchio, Laura; Fitzgerald, Frank (2007). "Reviewed Work: Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns by Ann Forsyth, Laura Musacchio, Frank Fitzgerald - Review by: Michael Rios". Landscape Journal. 26 (2). Temporary Publisher: 322–324. ISSN 0277-2426. JSTOR 43324406. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  4. ↑ Chambliss, Julian C. (October 9, 2009). "Reforming Suburbia: The Planned Communities of Irvine, Columbia, and the Woodlands by Ann Forsyth". Journal of Urban Affairs. 31 (4): 513–514. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9906.2009.00470.x – via CrossRef.
  5. ↑ "BOOK REVIEWS". Journal of the American Planning Association. 66 (4): 437–456. December 31, 2000. doi:10.1080/01944360008976128 – via CrossRef.
  6. ↑ Nelson, Arthur C. (March 4, 2022). "New towns for the twenty-first century: A guide to planned communities worldwide: edited by Richard Peiser and Ann Forsyth, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021, US$55.00 (hardback), 600pp. 132 illus., ISBN 978-0812251913". Journal of Urban Design. 27 (2): 281–283. doi:10.1080/13574809.2021.1979342 – via CrossRef.