{"id":13,"name":"Andrew Rudd","url":"","description":"Andrew Rudd is an urban designer with a passion for landscape. He worked on urban biodiversity for 17 years at UN-Habitat in Nairobi and New York and is now a consultant in Berkeley, California. He also manages a portfolio of projects related to urban sprawl and landscape connectivity. Before that he worked for five years in UN-Habitat\u2019s Nairobi office, where he served on the agency\u2019s delegation to the Rio+20 conference and managed the Urban Patterns for a Green Economy publication series, a photographic investigation of fast-growing cities and UN-Habitat\u2019s participation in the Shanghai Expo. Previously Andrew worked as an architect in New York. He has been a contributing author to Urban Environment Education Report (forthcoming), Global Street Design Guide (forthcoming), Assessment Report on Cities and Climate Change II (2015), Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities (2013), Cities and Biodiversity Outlook: Action and Policy (2012), Working Towards a Balanced and Inclusive Green Economy (2011) and Open Space on the Aylesbury: Between Public and Private (2007). Andrew studied architecture at Yale and urbanism at the LSE.","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/andrewrudd\/","slug":"andrewrudd","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":62072,"full":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled.jpg","blog_id":1,"192":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-96x96.jpg","24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-48x48.jpg","250":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-250x250.jpg","125":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/IMG_6969-scaled-125x125.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}