Sara Jensen Carr, PhD

Associate Professor of Architecture, Urbanism, and Landscape
Northeastern University


Sara Jensen Carr is an assistant professor at The School of Architecture at Northeastern University. Her teaching and research focuses on the connections between landscape, human health, urban ecology, and design. Her current book in progress, The Topography of Wellness: Health and the American Urban Landscape, examines landscape responses to six historical urban epidemics and the implication for current and future practice. Sara holds a Master of Architecture from Tulane University, and a Master of Landscape Architecture and PhD in Environmental Planning from University of California Berkeley, where she was the co-founding editor of the ASLA Award-winning GROUND UP Journal.