Dr. Jennifer Reut writes about the built environment—architecture, landscapes, cities, infrastructure—and the way culture, economics, and politics shape and are shaped by places we make.

She is the editor at Landscape Architecture Magazine, where she concocts, assigns, edits, and ushers to publication stories about landscape architecture, very broadly defined. She also writes for the magazine when something piques her interest, primarily features about landscape, culture, cities, race, infrastructure, art, rural communities, and environmental and economic justice.

She is also the founder of Mapping the Green Book, a project that she started in 2011 as a fellow at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that looks at the landscape of cultural, economic, and social networks created by the Green Book and other travel guides for African Americans published in the 20th century. She was a historical advisor on the documentary from Dr. Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns Driving While Black, now streaming on PBS.

Jennifer has an MA and PhD in Architectural History from the University of Virginia.