Blair Lorenzo is a world-renowned urban theorist, whose writings are both widely read and highly influent… wait, what do you mean this has to be accurate!? Bah. Blair Lorenzo has been studying cities and what makes them work for much of her adult life. She completed her undergraduate degree at New York University’s Gallatin School, a school in which students create their own program utilizing all the resources of the University, concentrating on urban theory, urban history, and the philosophy of the urban, with a particular focus on the impact and function of transportation. Blair describes her approach to cities as, “urbanism qua urbanism,” that is, the study of the city as an entity unto itself: to understand how and why cities function (or fail to function), how they came into their present forms, and ways in which to put this understanding into practice in order to make cities more livable and successful places. Over the course academic career, she has slowly been composing a book on the history of the American city, attempting to lay out how and why they have taken the shapes they have through a lens concerning eras of transportation technologies and cultural forces, while also investigating the theories of urbanity and methods of planning that each era has tended to engender. Blair also has a professional background in computers and IT, in web design, and counts amongst her hobbies a love reading, learning, getting lost on Wikipedia, and drawing.
Fragments of a green urbanism 