Dr.  Deni  Ruggeri   Ph.D.  Landscape  Architecture  and  Environmental  Planning,  MLA,  MRP,  Laurea  in  Architettura     Department  of  Landscape  Architecture           2493  Harris  Street   5234,  University  of  Oregon             Eugene,  OR  97405   Eugene,  OR  97403-­‐5234               Email:  [email protected]   Office  phone  541-­‐346-­‐3619                   CURRICULUM  VITAE   Education   2003-­‐2009     UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA,  BERKELEY-­‐  BERKELEY,  CA   Ph.D.  Program  in  Landscape  Architecture  and     Environmental  Planning   • Dissertation  Title:  Constructing  Identity  in  Master  Planned  Utopia:  the  Case  of   Irvine.  Supervisor  Prof.  Michael  Southworth   • Organized  “Metropolitan  Landscape  Conference”  Spring  2005   • Participate  in  International  Workshop  “The  Landslide  Garden,”  Longarone,  Italy   (Summer  2006)     1998-­‐2001   CORNELL  UNIVERSITY  -­‐  ITHACA,  NY   THE  GRADUATE  SCHOOL     Masters  of  Landscape  Architecture     Masters  of  City  and  Regional  Planning     • Masters  thesis  “Urban  Expansion  in  Italy:  the  Case  of  Milanotre  New  Town.”   Supervisor  Prof.  Roger  Trancik   • American  Society  of  Landscape  Architects  Student  Merit  Award,  March  2000.   • Created  CD-­‐ROM  for  the  American  Society  Of  Landscape  Architects  Convention   “Land-­‐tech”  exhibition,  Boston,MA  Fall  1999     1997-­‐1998   RHODE  ISLAND  SCHOOL  OF  DESIGN  -­‐  PROVIDENCE,  RI       Studies  in  Landscape  Architecture   • Research  on  the  City  of  Fall  River,  MA  in  cooperation  with  local  historical  society.   Research  resulted  in  the  publication  of  a  pamphlet     1989-­‐1996   POLITECNICO  DI  MILANO  -­‐  MILANO,  ITALY       SCHOOL  OF  ARCHITECTURE       Laurea  in  Architettura  (B.Arch.)   • Thesis:  “Olmsted  and  the  Park  Movement:  Their  Influence  on  the  City  Beautiful   Movement.”  Supervisor  Prof.  GianPiero  Calza   • Lectured  on  the  History  of  American  Planning     • Teaching  Assistant  for  the  course  of  Urban  Planning  History         Professional  experience   03/2002-­‐2006     THE  SWA  GROUP  -­‐  LAGUNA  BEACH,  CA  

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2005  -­‐2007  

  2001-­‐2002      

Landscape  designer   • Community  Consensus  Plan  for  Jeffrey  Greenway,  a  three-­‐mile  long  park.  City  of   Irvine  and  the  Irvine  Company.  Park  plan  submittals/design  development,   construction  documents  and  implementation     • Critic  and  Teaching  Assistant  for  2002/2006  SWA  Summer  Internships   • Streetscape  and  park  designs  for  Spanish  Walk  residential  community  in  Palm   Desert,  CA,  Summer  2006     COMMUNITY  DEVELOPMENT  BY  DESIGN  -­‐  BERKELEY,  CA   Landscape  designer   • Participated  in  the  design  of  Los  Angeles  River  Urban  Wildlife  Refuge  for  the  Santa   Monica  Mountain  Conservancy.  Responsible  for  graphic  illustrations  and  diagrams.   Awarded  the  2007  Environmental  Design  Research  Association/Places  Award   DESIGN  WORKSHOP  Inc.-­‐  DENVER,  CO   Landscape  designer   • Streetscape  design,  New  Urbanist  community  of  Ridgegate,  Lone  Tree,  CO.   Investigated  site  grading  and  cut/fill  strategies  to  minimize  environmental  impact.   Design  development  /construction  documents  set  for  parkways  and  streetscape.   Investigated  and  designed  environmental  identity  signage  and  monumentation  

  Summer  2000   THE  SWA  GROUP  -­‐  SAUSALITO,  CA       Summer  Intern   • Worked  on  projects  ranging  from  GIS  applications  to  urban  and  park  design   • Schematic  designs  for  new  parks  for  the  Irvine  Company  in  Irvine,  CA     1995–1996   COMUNE  DI  VERDELLINO  -­‐  VERDELLINO,  ITALY       Assistant  Planner   • Supervised  improvements  of  the  utilities  system.  Generated  over  $500,000  revenue   for  the  city.  Reorganized  archives  and  developed  templates  to  facilitate  building   permitting   • Conducted  participatory  process  engaging  students  in  the  redesign  of  school  yard     1994–1997   COMUNE  DI  CALCINATE  -­‐  CALCINATE,  ITALY       Elected  member  of  the  City  Council       Appointed  member  of  the  City  Planning  Commission   • Led  effort  to  formulate  and  approve  a  new  zoning  ordinance   • Coordinated  project  that  attracted  large  appliance  manufacturer,  which  increased   the  town’s  tax  base  and  provided  150  new  jobs   • Successfully  lobbied  with  Regional  Government  to  prevent  a  landfill  from  being   located  on  the  city’s  territory           Teaching  Experience   2010-­‐present     UNIVERSITY  OF  OREGON  -­‐  EUGENE,  OR   Department  of  Landscape  Architecture  

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2007-­‐2010  

2003-­‐2007  

1998-­‐2001  

1995-­‐1996  

Assistant  Professor  (tenure  track)   Ph.D.  Program  Director   • LA601  Master’s  Project  Clinic     • LA302  Tech  I  -­‐  Crafting  The  Land-­‐Scape     • LA600  Urban  Land  Institute  Hines  Urban  Design  Competition  Workshop       • LA4/508  Urban  Design  Seminar:  Resilient  Utopia     • LA4/559  The  View  From  The  Site:  Making  Landscapes  Work  –  Zero  Week  Course   • LA4/510  Seminar:  Place,  Identity  and  The  Landscape     • LA302  Tech  I  -­‐  Crafting  The  Land-­‐Scape   • LA4/589  Studio  –  Urban  Design     • LA4/589  Studio  -­‐  Site  Planning  And  Design  Studio       CORNELL  UNIVERSITY  -­‐  ITHACA,  NY   Department  of  Landscape  Architecture   Assistant  Professor  (tenure  track)   • LA702  Capstone  Studio  –     • LA497  Rust  To  Green  Service  Learning  Workshop  #1  -­‐  with  Paula  Horrigan  and  Jamie   Vanucchi   • LA5970  Landscape  Architecture  Thesis  Colloquium   • LA497  Urban  Land  Institute  Hines  Urban  Design  Competition  Workshop   • LA3160-­‐6160  Site  Engineering  II       • LA601  Studio  -­‐  Integrating  Theory  and  Practice     • LA301  Studio  -­‐  Integrating  Theory  And  Practice     UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA,  BERKELEY  -­‐  BERKELEY,  CA   Departments  of  Architecture  and  Landscape  Architecture     Graduate  Student  Instructor   • ED1  Intro  to  Environmental  Design  (Instructors:  Randy  Hester,  Peter  Bosselmann)   • LA130  Introduction  to  Landscape  Architecture  (Instructor  Jennifer  Brooke)   • LA121  Design  in  Detail  –  Landscape  Construction    (Instructor  Linda  Jewell)   • LA253  Landscape  Architecture  Colloquium  (Instructor  Deni  Ruggeri)   • LA257  Netherlands  Study  Tour  (Co-­‐instructor  with  Peter  Bosselmann  and  Jane  Wolf)   • LA301  Landscape  Architecture  teaching  seminar  (Instructor  of  record  Matt  Kondolf)     CORNELL  UNIVERSITY  -­‐  ITHACA,  NY   Departments  of  Landscape  Architecture,  City  and  Reg.  Planning,  Hotel  School   Teaching  Assistant,  Research  Assistant     • LA316/516  Engineering  (Instructor  Marvin  Adleman)   • LA318/518  Site  Construction  (Instructor  Peter  Trowbridge)   • LA702  Studio  -­‐  Urban  Design  in  the  Virtual  Realm  (Instructor  Roger  Trancik)   • LA402  Studio    -­‐  Senior  Studio  (Instructor  Jamie  Purinton)       POLITECNICO  DI  MILANO,  ITALY     Dipartimento  di  Pianificazione  del  territorio   Teaching  Assistant  and  Guest  Lecturer   • Storia  della  Città  e  del  Territorio  (Instructor  GianPiero  Calza)  

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• Storia  dell’Urbanistica  (Instructor  GianPiero  Calza)       Papers/publications  (*  peer  reviewed;  **  Invited  submission)   (*)  Yang,  Y.  and  Ruggeri,  D.  (Submitted  for  review  to  Habitat  International  Journal),  “From  Western   Countries  to  China  –  Exploring  the  Travel  of  the  Eco-­‐city  Idea  across  Space  and  Time.”     (*)  Ruggeri,  D.  and  Young,  D.  (Submitted  for  review  to  Journal  of  Landscape  Architecture)  “Community   Without  Technology?  Exploring  the  social  potential  of  web-­‐based  technology  in  Participatory  Design”       (*)  Ruggeri,  D.  (forthcoming)  “My  Mission  Viejo”.  A  Photovoice  Investigation  Of  Place  Identity  And   Attachment  In  Master  Planned  Suburbia.  Journal  of  Urban  Design  (Accepted  for  Publication)     (*)  Ruggeri,  D.  (forthcoming)  “Democracy  Matters,  Beginning  in  the  Classroom:    Moving  Towards  a   Collaborative,  Democratic  Design  Studio.”  In  Paula  Horrigan,  Cheryl  Doble  and  Mallika  Bose  (Eds.),   Erasing  Boundaries,  II.    London:  Earthscan    (Accepted  for  Publication)     (**)  Ruggeri,  D.  (2013)  “A  Traveling  Concept:  The  New  Town  ideal  from  Howard’s  Garden  City  to   Today’s  Ecocity.”  Pascaline  Gaborit,  (Ed).  Brussels:  Peter  Lang,  p.  73-­‐104     (**)  Ruggeri,  D.  (2013).  Book  Review:  The  Principles  of  Green  Urbanism:  Transforming  the  City  for   Sustainability.  Journal  of  Planning  Education  and  Research,  33(1),  p.  132-­‐134     (*)  Southworth,  M.  and  Ruggeri,  D.  (2011)  “Place  Identity  and  the  Global  City”  In  Urban  Design:  Roots,   Influences,  and  Trends.  In  Tridib  Banerjee  and  Anastasia  Loukaitou-­‐Sideris  (Eds),  The  Routledge   Companion  to  Urban  Design.  London:  Routledge,  p.  495-­‐509     (**)  Ruggeri,  D.  (2010),  Death  and  Life  of  a  Modernist  Utopia:  The  New  Town  of  Zingonia,  Italy;”  New   Towns  for  the  21st  Century;  the  Planned  vs.  the  Unplanned  City,  Amsterdam:  SUN,  p.94-­‐103     (**)  Ruggeri,  D.  (2009)  “Revisiting  Urban  Design  Utopia  in  Irvine,  New  Town.”  Die  Alte  Stadt,  (2),  p.247-­‐ 62     (**)  Ruggeri,  D.  (2008)    “Learning  From  Suburbia:  Urban  Design  Lessons  From  America’s  Largest  New   Town.”  Rassegna  di  Architettura  e  Urbanistica.  Anno  XLII,  n.126  p.75-­‐88     (*)  Bosselmann,  P.  and  Ruggeri,  D.  (2007)  The  Future  Metropolitan  Landscape.  Places,  19  (1)  Spring   (Both  authors  were  editors  of  the  entire  Journal  issue)     (*)  Ruggeri,  D.  (2006)  “Community  Participation  and  the  Craft  of  a  Design  Process  for  the  Global  World.”   In  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  Conference  Proceedings,  Vancouver,  BC,  June  14-­‐17,  p.   153-­‐158     (*)  Kot,  D.  and  Ruggeri,  D.  (2005)  “Crafting  Westport.  How  One  Small  Community  Shaped  Its  Own   Future.”in  J.  Hou;  M.  Francis  and  N.  Brightbill  (eds).  Reconstructing  Communities:  Design  Participation  in   the  Face  of  Change.  Davis,  CA:  Center  for  Design  Research,  p.107-­‐116    

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  Invited  keynotes       2013   • “Public  Virtues,  Public  Vices?  Lessons  for  the  Sustainable  Future  of  New  Towns.”    European  New   Town  Platform  General  Assembly.  Basildon,  UK    10.13.2012     2009   • “  Constructing  Identity  in  Master  Planned  Utopia:  The  New  Town  of  Irvine,  CA.”    European  New  Town   Platform  General  Assembly.  Figueres,  Spain  10.1.2009         Conference  papers,  abstracts  and  posters  (*)  peer  reviewed  (**)  invited   2013   • Abstract,  Public  Identity  and  Common  Space  Conference.  La  Sapienza  University,  Rome,  Italy   6.27.2013  (*)   • Poster,  Developing  a  Common  Methodology  for  The  Assessment,  Valuation  and  Management  of   European  Landscapes,  44th  Environmental  Design  Research  Association  Conference.  Providence,  RI     5.29.2013  (*)     • Abstract,  "A  Common  Methodology  for  the  Assessment,  Preservation  and  Management  of  European   Landscapes."  2nd  GreenNet  scientific  Conference-­‐Universität  für  Bodenkultur  –  Vienna,  Austria  (*)   2012   • Paper,  Key  Findings  from  the  Expert  Reviews,  EUROSCAPES  Project  Final  Conference,  Marne  La  Vallée,   France  10.26.2012  (**)   • Paper,  Utopia  revisited.  Landscape,  Identity,  Past  and  Present  of  Modernist  New  Towns,  Council  of   Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  Conference-­‐University  of  Illinois,  Urbana-­‐Champaign,  IL   3.29.2012  (*)   2011   • Paper,  From  Western  Countries  to  China  –  Exploring  the  Travel  of  the  Eco-­‐city  Idea  across  Space  and   Time.  International  Association  for  China  Planning  Conference-­‐  Renmin  University.  Beijing,  China   6.17-­‐19.2011  (*)   • Abstract,  Towards  the  Craft  of  a  New  Pedagogy  for  Landscape  Architecture.  First  Rete  Vitruvio   Conference-­‐University  of  Bari,  Italy  5.2-­‐6,2011  (*)   • Paper,  My  Mission  Viejo.  A  photo  voice  investigation  of  place  identity  and  attachment  in  master   planned  suburbia.  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  2011  Conference-­‐University  of   Southern  California,  Los  Angeles  4.2.2011  (*)   • Paper,  Democracy  Matters,  Beginning  in  the  Classroom:  Moving  Towards  a  Collaborative,  Democratic   Design  Studio.    2nd  Erasing  Boundaries  Conference-­‐Hunter  College.  New  York,  NY  4.30.2011  (*)   2010     • Abstract,  Towards  The  Crafting  Of  A  New  Pedagogy  For  Landscape  Architecture:  The   Collaborative/Virtual  Design  Studio,  Council  of  Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  Conference-­‐   Wageningen  University,  Maastricht,  Netherlands  5.11-­‐14.2010  (*)   • Paper,  The  Construction  of  Sustainable  Identity  in  Master  Planned  Utopia:  The  Case  of  Irvine,  CA,     41  Environmental  Design  Research  Association  Conference.  Washington,  DC    6.3.2010  (*)     2009   • Paper,  Death  and  Life  of  a  Modernist  Utopia.  The  New  Town  of  Zingonia,  Italy.  International  New   Town  Institute  Conference.  Almere,  Netherlands  6.6.2009  (*)   2004  -­‐  2008   • Paper,  Building  Utopia,  Italian  Style.    Silvio  Berlusconi  and  The  New  Town  of  Milanotre,  International  

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Planning  History  Conference.  Chicago,  IL  7.10-­‐13.2008  (*)   • Paper/discussant,  Learning  From  Suburbia:  Urban  Design  Lessons  From  America’s  Largest  New  Town,   A  suburban  World  Conference-­‐Virginia  Polytechnic.  Reston,  VA,  4.8.2008  (*)   • Paper, The  Wasted  Suburban  Landscape,  Technical  University  of  Eindhoven  Urban  Wastelands   Conference.  Eindhoven,  Netherlands  5.11.2007  (*)   • Paper,  Community  participation  and  the  craft  of  a  design  process  for  the  global  age.  Council  of   Educators  in  Landscape  Architecture  Conference-­‐University  of  British  Columbia.  Vancouver,  BC   6.14.2006  (*)   • Paper,  Crafting  Westport  as  a  Metaphor  for  Envisioning  the  Future,  Association  for  Community   Design  Conference.  New  York,  NY  March  2005  (*)   • Paper,  Learning  From  a  Small  Town;  Community  Participation  as  the  Foundation  for  a  21st  Century   Design  Process,  MX  Design  Conference-­‐  Universidad  IberoAmericana.  Mexico  City,  10.26-­‐28.2005  (*)   • Paper, Crafting  Westport.  How  One  Small  Community  Shaped  Its  Future,  Community  Design  in  the   Pacific  Rim  Conference-­‐University  of  Washington.  Seattle,  WA  9.24.2004  (*)    

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