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Daniel Abramson
Assistant Professor of Urban Design & Planning;
Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture; Full member of China Studies and Canadian Studies faculties
University of Washington, Seattle
Ph.D. Tsinghua University;
M.Arch., M.C.P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) Harvard
Biography
Daniel Abramson joined the faculty of Urban Design and Planning at The University of Washington in September 2001, having conducted research and taught classes as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia's Centre for Human Settlements and School of Community and Regional Planning. He holds a B.A. degree from Harvard University and a Masters in Architecture and City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he obtained his doctorate from Tsinghua University while conducting research and planning in Beijing and other Chinese cities from 1992 to 1997. He was the first American to earn any graduate-level degree from a Chinese university.
Professor Abramson's research focuses on transnational comparative aspects of urban design, historic preservation and neighborhood planning, as well as particular problems in the physical, social, and cultural transformation of Chinese cities. He is the leading faculty member in a multi-university collaboration to research and consult on a Ford Foundation-funded community-based preservation and revitalization planning project in the city of Quanzhou, Fujian Province, and has led numerous field studios for planning and architecture students in China. |
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