Sarah Ichioka | |
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Born | California, US |
Nationality | American British |
Education | Yale University (BA) London School of Economics (MSc) |
Sarah Ichioka is a British–American urbanist and writer based in Singapore.[1][2][3] The founder of strategic consultancy Desire Lines, Ichioka is a proponent of regenerative design, biomimicry, and the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into urban planning.[4][5][6] Ichioka served as the Director of the Architecture Foundation, an independent center for urbanism and architecture in the United Kingdom from 2008 to 2014.[7][8] In Singapore, Ichioka has advocated for the rewilding of green spaces as a strategy for increasing resilience and minimizing intensive management, and for the government to adopt more urgent language about addressing climate change.[9][10]