Esther (Esthi) Zipori is a postdoctoral research fellow at SCARP working with Kelly Clifton on the ReROW project and is part of the SUPER lab.
Trained as an architect and infrastructure planner, Esthi's work spans research, design and planning, and education. She has taught at the J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, and at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in the City College of New York in New York City. Her teaching focuses on architecture and planning theory and design practices through the lenses of social-technical systems, automobility, and sustainable transitions.
Esthi graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture, a Master of Infrastructure Planning, and a PhD in Urban Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers in 2014, 2015, and 2022, respectively. Her dissertation, “The Future of Urban Street in the United States: Visions of Alternative Mobilities in the Twenty-First Century,” provides a snapshot of contemporary design “battles” between technology, design, and livability standards. It also finds that the automobility system has injected itself into the fabric of sustainable urban design understanding and has stagnated the transition to alternative mobilities.
Esthi’s research interests include the automobility system (past, present, future), sustainable (and sufficient) urban planning, alternative mobilities, and transitions (society and technology).
