Anne Lusk, Ph.D.

Title:

Lecturer

Education:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, NIH Ruth L. Kirshstein F32 Training Grant, 9/2006 – 8/2010

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, 5/2002 – 12/2002

Ph.D. Architecture – Environment and Behavior/Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 2002

M.Sc. Architecture, University of Michigan, 2000

M.A.T. Aesthetics in Housing and Historic Preservation, University of Vermont, 1975

Diplome Fashion Design, Les Ecoles de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, Paris, 1971

B.A. Home Economics, Ohio University 1970

Email:

alusk@bu.edu

AnneLusk@gmail.com

Phone:

617-879-4887 h/w

617-872-9201 c

Research Interests:

Protected bike lanes

Electric vehicle home charging

Equity

Historic properties as carbon storage

Urban agriculture

Websites:

Google Scholar

Research Gate

Linked In

Twitter AnneLuskPhD

Honors:

  • Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals – Lifetime Achievement Award (2013)
  • Congress for New Urbanism/New England – Lifetime Achievement Award (2011)
  • Preservation Award – Brookline Preservation Society (2008)
  • Stowe Conservation Commission Award – Conservationist of the Year (2004)
  • Giving in our Community Award – The Vermont Women’s Fund (2004)
  • University of Michigan – Martin Luther King Service and Leadership Award (2001)
  • TIME magazine Local Hero – Creating Single Volunteers, now a worldwide-organization (1997)
  • National Recreation and Park Association – National Voluntary Service Award (1992)
  • U.S. Department of the Interior – National Take Pride in America Award (1989)
  • George H.W. Bush White House 119th Point of Light for the Stowe Recreation Path in Stowe, VT (1989)

Course: 

MET ML 714 B1 Urban Agriculture

Overview:

Anne Lusk, Ph.D. is a practitioner and academic who, for over 40 years, created climate-responsive environments—the old Stowe High School in Vermont/now the library and art center that stores carbon in the building and grounds, the award-winning biking/walking Stowe Recreation Path, and the 235-acre conserved Mayo Farm. In order to learn research methods to change policies, in 2002, Lusk obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture/Environment and Behavior and Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. She studied greenways which, if connected to street-side protected bike lanes/cycle tracks, offer everyone safe and sustainable bike networks. For 20 years at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Lusk taught about and conducted research on protected bike lanes because, in the US, biking was unsafe, male-centric, and guided by out-of-date guidelines. With co-authors, their first article submitted in 2010, showed that protected bike lanes in Montreal had a 28% lower injury rate and 2.5 times as many bicyclists compared to roads without bicycle facilities. Their second article in 2013, showed US transportation engineers had, since 1974, cut and pasted the same language in subsequent guidelines to discourage protected bike lanes. Their research helped win federal approval for protected bike lanes. At Harvard Chan, she published about electric vehicle charging stations being off road, so the curbside was for protected bike lanes. She proposed changing condominium bylaws to allow condo owners to sell parking spaces with EV charging to nearby neighbors. She also focused on planting canopy trees, maintaining historic yards as carbon storage, and creating rich soils for vegetable gardens.

Selected Publications: