Garden History & DesignAnna Bierbrauer
2021 The Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
Erasure and Acceptance of Aridity in the American West
Bierbrauer’s research combines political ecology, environmental history, and critical physical geography with the landscape architecture and planning professions, to understand historical and current equity issues related to water and vegetation in cities of the American West. Using geospatial methods, archives, and interviews, she will examine how cities have suppressed aridity in the past. As water resources become strained and climate patterns more extreme, this will contribute to an understanding of how cities can re-introduce aridity with a lens of equity and environmental justice.
The Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
To further the study of history and design in the American garden and to look to the future of gardens and their unique place in our environment.
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