An urban designer and registered architect, she has authored design guidelines and consulted on numerous urban planning projects throughout the U.S. She has taught at Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Utah, and the Boston Architectural College. She is co-author, with Ellen Dunham-Jones, of the book "Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs" (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) and her writing has been published in the book "Writing Urbanism: A Design Reader" (Routledge, 2008) as well as the journals Places and Harvard Design Magazine.