Therese Tierney

One year later, "Intelligent infrastructure: Zipcars, Invisible Networks and Urban Transformation" has been released in a second edition by University of Virginia Press!!!

T.F. Tierney is a Visiting Scholar of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley and the founding director of URL: Urban Research Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. URL focuses on urban infrastructure, policy, and people. Recent research includes affordable housing, sustainable cities, and social equity. In 2013, Tierney was a US Delegate to Smart & Digital Cities in France; she was selected for the quality of her research in the application of new technologies to build the next generation of cities.

Tierney's book "The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Networked Society" (Routledge 2013) was a finalist for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Award (2014). Tierney holds a PhD in Architecture with a Designated Emphasis in New Media from the University of California Berkeley, a BArch from California College of the Arts. During 2006, she was a predoctoral researcher at the MIT media lab.