Kelly Gregg

Kelly Gregg is currently an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at SUNY Buffalo, where she teaches undergraduate environmental design and graduate planning courses. Her place-based research is positioned at the intersection of urban planning, urban design, and landscape architecture. Specifically her work focuses on street design and pedestrian environments in both an historic and contemporary context. She has been interviewed and quoted in the New York Times for her expertise on pedestrianized streets, and for pedestrian safety on NPR and in the Buffalo News. Kelly currently serves as the track-chair for urban design for the Association of Colligate Schools of Planning (ACSP), and as review co-editor for North America for Planning Perspectives.

In addition to multiple publications from extensive research on the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on street design and public space. Some of her recent publications on pedestrian streets include: a diachronic study of pedestrianization ideas and implementation in Antwerp, Belgium with co-author Conrad Kickert in Planning Perspectives in 2024; a study of post-war pedestrian malls in North America as a type of urban renewal in the Journal of Planning History in 2024, and an article addressing the history and evolution of downtown pedestrianization titled “Gruen vs. Gehl making the contemporary model of pedestrianization” which was published in the Journal of Urban Design in 2023.

She completed her PhD in Planning at the University of Toronto in 2019. She also holds a Master's Degree in Urban Planning (MUP) and Urban Design (MUD) from The University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (BLA) from The Pennsylvania State University.