Paula Horrigan
Paula Horrigan is a landscape architect, editor, and scholar. She is an Emerita Professor of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. Her focus is on placemaking and democratic design. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and has spearheaded Cornell University’s Rust to Green (R2G) Utica Action Research Project since 2010.
She co-edited Service Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries (New Village Press, 2011) with Tom Angotti and Cheryl S. Doble. She is the recipient of several awards for sustainability and planning, including the Environmental Design Research Association Great Places Book Award in 2015. Her latest work is Fieldwork in Landscape Architecture: Methods, Actions, Tools (Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 2023), co-edited with Thomas Oles.
For over a decade, Horrigan has led communities in Utica, New York in a large-scale placemaking project, the One World Garden. She lives in Utica.