Taylor Davey

Taylor Davey

Taylor Davey

Taylor Davey is a fifth-year PhD candidate working at the intersection of transnational governance, environmental expertise, and urban political ecology. Her work focuses on the rise of greenhouse emissions inventorying and the development of sustainability indicators since the 1990s. Looking at the influence of accounting and financial risk techniques, the dissertation takes the Canadian cities of Toronto and Edmonton as historical touchstones to investigate the relationship between expert-driven discourses and the localization of global governance agendas. Of interest is the changing scalar politics of climate, the way new local policy objects are developed as part of this agenda, and how concepts like the local or regional “climate” can become a more radical political resource.

Taylor holds Master of Urban Planning from Harvard University as well as a Bachelor of Architectural Studies and a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo, where she has also worked as an instructor. Taylor was the recipient of a SSHRC award and was awarded the OAA Guild Medal for her M.Arch research, which focused on Medellín the Social Urbanism program in Medellín, Colombia, and the politics of its dissemination as “best practice” model. She has also worked as an editorial intern at Log, The Architectural Review, and is an editorial assistant for the Harvard GSD publications office. Prior to her academic career, Taylor worked as an intern in multiple architectural offices in Toronto. Taylor is currently located in Cambridge, MA and is available at taylordavey@g.harvard.edu

Project:  CDP and the New Environment of Urban Disclosure