Brief Bio of Kathy Poole

KATHY POOLE is a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). She is a registered landscape architect and practitioner, principal of Kathy Poole, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. Her passion is what she calls Civic Hydrology, the potential to use water infrastructure to build better cities and communities. Civic Hydrology explores "better" in three contexts:

• how water can structure growth, organize institutions, and catalyze city-making and reinvigoration.

• how ecologically positive water strategies and techniques can support healthier cities for all urban residents, human and otherwise.

• how water can contribute to cities rich in civic expression, particularly in ways that strengthen and clarify citizens’ relationships to the city and reinvigorate civic life.

Her water research blends theoretical, technical, and historical studies and includes many disciplines—ecology, engineering, urban design, cultural history, landscape architecture, and architecture. Her Civic Hydrology studies span historical and contemporary works and have been recipients of numerous grants and fellowships. Her intention is to offer a set of tools for all of the partners that it takes to build better communities and cities—designers, administrators, engineers, planners, and most importantly citizens.