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Abramson, Daniel

Daniel Abramson is Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from Tsinghua University, a M.C. in City Planning and a M.A. in Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. in History from Harvard University. Currently he focuses on community resilience and adaptive planning in disaster recovery and hazard mitigation, as well as periurban and rural responses to rapid urbanization. Beside his appointment in Urban Design & Planning at UW, he is adjunct in the Departments of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, and a member of the China Studies and Canadian Studies faculty. Before teaching at UW, he held a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Human Settlements, where he initiated the first Ford Foundation-funded urban community-based planning project in China, in Quanzhou, Fujian.