Diane Jones Allen
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Diane Jones Allen | |
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| Education | University of Texas at Arlington |
| Occupation | Landscape architect |
Diane Jones Allen, D. Eng., ASLA, is an American landscape architect, founding principal of DesignJones LLC, author, and program director of landscape architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington. Jones Allen’s firm, DesignJones, LLC, received the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Community Service Award in 2016.
Early Life and education
editJones Allen grew up in Baltimore. She attended Washington University in St. Louis, where she received an undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting. Intending to become an art conservator, she was accepted to Maryland Institute College of Art for a masters degree, but did not attend. She attended Harvard University Graduate School of Design's Design Discovery summer program, which launched her interest in landscape architecture. Following this summer experience, Jones Allen attend University of California, Berkeley where she received a Master of Landscape Architecture degree, and was awarded a graduate minority fellowship.
In 2014 Jones Allen received a Doctorate in Transportation Civil Engineering from Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD.
Career
editJones Allen first worked with the firm TerraDesigns Inc. in New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in 2005.
Academia
editJones is an editor of Design as Democracy :Techniques for Collective Creativity, which won the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Book Award.[1]
Projects
editHayden Plaza (New Orleans, LA)[2]
Reflective Properties (New Orleans, LA)[3]
Publications
editDe la Peña, D., Jones Allen, D., Hester Jr., R., Hou, J., Lawson, L., & McNally, M. (2017). Design as Democracy :Techniques for Collective Creativity (1st ed. 2017. ed.). Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press.
Allen, D. (2018). Lost in the transit desert : Race, transit access, and suburban form (Routledge research in planning and urban design). Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.
Yalcin Yildirim, Diane Jones Allen, & Amy Albright. (2019). The Relationship between Sound and Amenities of Transit-Oriented Developments. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(13), 2413.
- ^ "Past Great Places Recipients - Environmental Design Research Association". www.edra.org. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ^ "Hayden Plaza". African American Design Nexus. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ^ "Reflective Properties". African American Design Nexus. Retrieved March 29, 2020.