Ann Forsyth is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard University Graduate School of Design; director of the master in urban planning program; and co-leader of the Healthy Places Design Lab and the New Towns Initiative. Trained in planning and architecture, she works mainly on the social aspects of physical planning and urban development, and explores how we can build more sustainable and healthy cities. She has contributed to three main areas of research and practice: documenting and assessing innovative and high-density planning and design in suburban/metropolitan areas; evaluating and proposing how the physical environment can improve health; and examining how to connect research and practice.
