Future Urban Planner
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Location | CA, United States |
| Introduction | My planning interests are in sustainability, eco-friendly transit & alternative energy, smart growth when appropriate, urban revitalization, esp. downtowns and post-industrial/Rustbelt cities, with emphasis on use of sustainable techniques and materials & gentrification and its implications, both good and bad and how it affects everyone. |
| Interests | Urban planning, art, history of classical music, graffiti, the chicken and egg relationship between art, music, literature, and philosophy, new urbanism, sustainable architecture, Rene Magritte, Max beckmann, and Edward Hopper. |
| Favorite movies | the Royal Tenenbaums, L'Annee Dernier `a Marienbaud, Stranger Than Fiction, Dead Poets Society, High Fidelity, Singles, Waking Life, Smokin' Aces, Snatch, Tootsie |
| Favorite music | Sinatra, Mozart, Beethoven, the Pogues, & R.E.M., adore the Red Hot Chili Peppers, used to like the Foo Fighters, still love Green Day- (the old stuff) LOVE Tiger Army, the Meteors, the Dead Weather, the Horrorpops, AFI, Patsy Cline, Kelley Hunt, Calexico, daft Punk, Billie Holiday, Billy Idol, Interpol, Alana Davis, Garbage, Dropkick Murphys, saw Tom Waits in person!!! Flogging Molly, the Tossers, Frontline Assembly, and Skinny Puppy |
| Favorite books | a Better Way to Live by Philip Langdon, anything by Witold Rybczynski, Bill Fulton, & Peter Calthorpe, Close Up: How to Read the American City by Grady Clay, the Old Way of Seeing by Jonathan Hale, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival by Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio (HIGHLY recommended), Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichel, the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, the Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham, This is Modern Art by Matthew Collings |