Esther (Esthi) Zipori is a postdoctoral research fellow at SCARP working with Dr. Kelly Clifton. She is part of a trans-disciplinary research cluster, Rethinking the Right-of-Way (ReROW), where she also acts as a coordinator and is embedded within the Sustainable Urban Planning & Engineering Research Lab (SUPER lab).
Trained as an architect, infrastructure planner, and social scientist, Esthi's work spans research, design, planning, and education. She has deep academic teaching experience having taught at the 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, as well as 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 an analysis of contemporary ideas on the future of urban streets from technology, design, and policy actors. 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).
