Anne Lusk, Ph.D. is a practitioner and academic who, for over 40 years, created climate-responsive environments—the old Stowe High School in Vermont/now the library and art center that stores carbon in the building and grounds, the award-winning biking/walking Stowe Recreation Path, and the 235-acre conserved Mayo Farm. Lusk obtained her Ph.D. in Architecture/Environment and Behavior and Urban Planning from the University of Michigan to learn research methods to change policies. She studied greenways which, if connected to street-side protected bike lanes/cycle tracks, would give all populations safe and green bike networks. For the next 20 years at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Dr. Lusk taught about and conducted research on protected bike lanes because, in the US, biking was unsafe, male-centric, and guided by out-of-date guidelines. Their first article submitted in 2010, showed that protected bike lanes in Montreal had a 28% lower injury rate and 2.5 times as many bicyclists compared to roads without bicycle facilities. Their second article in 2013, showed US transportation engineers had, since 1974, cut and pasted the same language in subsequent guidelines to discourage protected bike lanes. At Harvard Chan, she published about electric vehicle charging stations being off road, so the curbside was for protected bike lanes. She proposed un-unbundling parking spaces in apartments/condominiums to sell the spaces, with EV charging, to nearby neighbors. She also focused on planting trees, yards as carbon storage, and gardens for healthy food.
Experience
–present
Lecturer, Urban Agriculture summer BU
2003–2022
Visiting Scientist/Research Scientist/ Instructor, Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Education
2002
University of Michigan, Ph.D.
1975
University of Vermont, M.A.T.
1971
Les Ecoles de Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, Diplome
Publications
2023
If the Government Pays for Full Home-Charger Installation, Would Affordable-Housing and Middle-Income Residents Buy Electric Vehicles?, https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/5/4436
2022
Home Ec and Climate Change: Time To Consider a Revamp, Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences. Vol 114. No 1.
2020
Designing Better Cycling Infrastructure: Safe cycling benefits people, the planet, and the local economy, https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m848
2019
Bicycle Facilities Safest from Crime and Crashes: Perceptions of Residents Familiar with Higher Crime/Lower Income Neighborhoods in Boston, https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/3/484
2018
“Pedestrian and cyclist preferences for tree locations by sidewalks and cycle tracks and associated benefits: Worldwide implications from a study in Boston, MA.”, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427511731329X
2017
Cycle Tracks and Parking Environments in China: Learning from College Students at Peking University, https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/8/930
2017
Bicycle Facilities That Address Safety, Crime, and Economic Development: Perceptions from Morelia, Mexico., http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/1/1
2017
“Biking practices and preferences in a lower income, primarily minority neighborhood: Learning what residents want.”, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211335517300062
2016
“Addressing electric vehicle (EV) sales and range anxiety through parking layout, policy and regulation.”, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856415002451
2015
Database improvements for motor vehicle/bicycle crash analysis.” Injury Prevention, http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/early/2015/03/30/injuryprev-2014-041317.full.pdf+html
2014
Gender and used/preferred differences of bicycle routes, parking, intersection signals, and bicycle type: Professional middle class preferences in Hangzhou, China, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140514000334
2013
Bicycle Guidelines and Crash Rates on Cycle Tracks in the United States., http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2012.301043
2011
Risk of injury for bicycling on cycle tracks versus in the street, https://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/17/2/131
2010
Bicycle Riding, Walking, and Weight Gain in Premenopausal Women, http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/170/12/1050
Honours
Lifetime Achievement Award 2011 - Congress for New Urbanism, New England and Lifetime Achievement Award 2013 - Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals