The LOEB Fellowship

Hillary Brown, FAIA, is Professor Emerita with the City College of New York. She was the program director of CCNY’s interdisciplinary master’s program, Sustainability in the Urban Environment, developed jointly with the Grove School of Engineering and CCNY’s Division of Science. She is founding Director of CUNY’s Resilient Urban Systems lab, researching applied, cross-sector strategies for improving municipal infrastructure performance while promoting economic and civic benefits. In 2019, Hillary was elected to the National Academy of Construction for her leadership in sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

For six years, Hillary served on the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE) under the National Academies’ National Research Council and is a Fellow of the Post-Carbon Institute. She is Senior Advisor to the Ecologic Institute, U.S.;  affiliated faculty of the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center; and a Senior Research Fellow at the CUNY Institute of Urban Systems. Hillary’s two books, Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works (Island Press 2014) and Infrastructural Ecologies: Alternative Development Models for Emerging Economies (MIT Press 2017) describe integrated approaches to infrastructure planning. Her third book is “Revitalize | Resettle: How Main Street USA Can Provide New Beginnings for America’s Climate Displaced (Palmetto, 2024).