Billy Fleming (landscape architect)
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Billy Fleming is a landscape designer, city planner, and climate activist who currently serves as an assistant professor at Temple University in the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. Prior to Temple, Fleming founded and served as the inaugural Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design. He is known for fusing climate justice and policy work with the landscape architecture and planning professions.[1] He teaches, writes, lectures, and works on the intersection of climate change and the built environment, often through the policy framework known as the Green New Deal. He was one of the key instigators and organizers of the "Green New Deal Superstudio",[2] the Megapolitan Coastal Transformation Hub,[3] and is a co-founder and strategic director for the Climate and Community Institute.[4]
Fleming earned his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Arkansas' Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in 2011, followed by a Master of Community and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013, and a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017.