Grahame Shane, Professor in Columbia GSAPP’s Urban Design Program speaks with Skye Duncan, who gave a lecture at the recent event “UD Sessions: The Expanded Field of Urban Design” featuring alumni of the Urban Design Program. Skye Duncan is an urban designer with over a decade of experience in architecture, urban design, planning, and landscape architecture. She joined National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) in 2014 as the Director of the Global Designing Cities Initiative. Skye previously worked as a Senior Urban Designer at the NYC Department of City Planning in the Office of the Chief Urban Designer. She contributed to the NYC DOT Street Design Manual and helped develop much of the Planning Department’s work on public health and the built environment. She was a contributing author to Active Design Guidelines (2010) and led a team to produce Shaping the Sidewalk Experience (2013). Here she talks about her motivation to study urban design at Columbia, and her current work at the Global Designing Cities Initiative.
