Anna Bierbrauer

Position title: Faculty, Planning and Landscape Architecture

Email: abierbrauer@wisc.edu

Research Summary

Anna Bierbrauer’s research integrates environmental history, critical physical geography, and geospatial analysis to examine how trees, water, and green space have shaped urban life and planning in U.S. cities. Her work bridges environmental humanities, political ecology, and design practice to investigate how vegetation, hydrologic systems, and infrastructure function as living archives of urban change. At the core of her scholarship, teaching, and design practice is the recognition that environmental challenges emerge from the intertwined dynamics of biophysical processes, institutional decisions, political histories, and cultural values. She approaches these issues holistically and collaboratively, illuminating how patterns of water and vegetation record social histories, infrastructural transformation, and shifting ecological ideals.

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