{{Short description|American editor}} {{Undisclosed paid|date=July 2023}} {{for|the systems and software safety analyst|Nancy Leveson}}

'''Nancy Levinson''' is an editor and writer working at the intersection of journalism, scholarship, architecture, and urbanism.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://muledesign.com/2017/07/goat-salon-q-a-with-nancy-levinson|title=GOAT Salon: Q&A with Nancy Levinson - Mule|website=Mule|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> She has been the editor and executive director of ''Places'' journal since 2008''.'' She was the Founding Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab at The Design School at Arizona State University, and a founding editor of ''Harvard Design Magazine'' at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

== Education == Levinson gained her BA from Yale University and her Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=https://placesjournal.org/author/nancy-levinson/|title=Nancy Levinson {{!}} Places Journal|work=Places Journal|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Career == Levinson began her career with a short period in architectural practice before moving into architectural journalism. She has published in a wide range of media, both professional and scholarly, including the ''Journal of Planning Literature, Yale Journal of Architecture'', ''I.D.'', ''Metropolis'', ''Landscape Architecture'', ''The Christian Science Monitor'', and ''Architectural Record'', for which she was a contributing editor.<ref name=":2" /><ref name="ArtsJournal: PIXEL POINTS">{{Cite web|url=http://artsjournal.com/pixelpoints/about/aboutnancy.shtml|title=ArtsJournal: PIXEL POINTS|website=artsjournal.com|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> She has also edited books for the Princeton Architectural Press and contributed chapters to ''Architecture and Film'', edited by Mark Lamster, and ''Judging Architectural Value''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Architecture and film|date=2000|publisher=Princeton Architectural Press|others=Lamster, Mark, 1969-|isbn=1568982070|edition= 1st|location=New York|oclc=42842390}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.papress.com/html/product.details.dna?isbn=9781568982076|title=Architecture and Film|website=www.papress.com|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/judging-architectural-value|title=Judging Architectural Value|website=University of Minnesota Press|language=en|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Judging architectural value|date=2007|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|others=Saunders, William S.|isbn=9780816650101|location=Minneapolis, MN|oclc=71833337}}</ref> Levinson also spent a period as ‘editor in the archives’ at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Levinson |first1=Nancy |title=1939: The Future in Flushing Meadows |url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/issues/2/what-the-future-looked-like/1553/1939-the-future-in-flushing-meadows |website=Canadian Centre for Architecture |accessdate=8 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Levinson |first1=Nancy |title=Detroit: The Invisible Content of a Photograph |url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/issues/9/let-us-assure-you/1591/detroit-the-invisible-content-of-a-photograph |website=Canadian Centre for Architecture |accessdate=8 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Levinson |first1=Nancy |title=New York: Capital of the Twentieth Century |url=https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/articles/issues/9/let-us-assure-you/1542/new-york-capital-of-the-twentieth-century |website=Canadian Centre for Architecture |accessdate=8 May 2020}}</ref>

In 1997 Levinson co-founded ''Harvard Design Magazine'', the biannual publication of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with William Saunders, and continued co-editing the publication until 2001. Issues she directed and edited addressed a wide range of topics, including metropolitan form, monuments, spectacle culture, and post-communist Eastern Europe.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5071-history-of-the-present-cities-in-transition|title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Places Journal|website=www.grahamfoundation.org|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/9|title=Harvard Design Magazine: No. 9 / Constructions of Memory: On Monuments Old and New|website=www.harvarddesignmagazine.org|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/13|title=Harvard Design Magazine: No. 13 / East of Berlin: Postcommunist Cities Now|website=www.harvarddesignmagazine.org|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> From September 2004 until November 2006 Levinson wrote Pixel Points for the ''Arts Journal'', an early manifestation of architectural blogging.<ref name="ArtsJournal: PIXEL POINTS"/>

Levinson became the founding director of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab and Professor of Practice at the Design School at Arizona State University in 2007.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://asunow.asu.edu/content/purl-director-named-editor-places|title=PURL director named editor of 'Places'|date=2008-11-07|work=ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://purl-asu.tumblr.com/|title=The Phoenix Urban Research Lab|website=purl-asu.tumblr.com|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> She was appointed editor of ''Places Journal'' in 2008, replacing long-time editor Donlyn Lyndon, and maintained both roles until she was appointed full-time at ''Places''.<ref name=":0" />

Levinson also contributes to architectural culture as a design juror and public speaker.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/architecture/atmosphere/2015/levinson.html|title=Levinson {{!}} Atmos 2015 Emergence|website=umanitoba.ca|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://terrain.design.upenn.edu/speakers/nancy-levinson.html|title=in the terrain of water {{!}} Penn Design • NANCY LEVINSON|website=terrain.design.upenn.edu|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref>

== Editorial practice == Levinson focuses on the opportunities presented by digital and online media for reaching new audiences and expanding the impact of scholarly work.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levinson|first=Nancy|date=2013-10-01|title=Print and Pixel|url=https://placesjournal.org/article/print-and-pixel/|journal=Places Journal|language=en-US|issue=2013|doi=10.22269/131001|issn=2164-7798|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Under Levinson’s editorship, ''Places'' moved from print to online and built a substantial and wide-ranging interdisciplinary readership.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://placesjournal.org/news/from-the-editor-2009/|title=From the Editor|work=Places Journal|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://landscapearchitecturemagazine.org/2014/10/22/places-journal-has-a-new-place/|title=PLACES JOURNAL HAS A NEW PLACE|date=2014-10-22|work=Landscape Architecture Magazine|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref> Levinson has expanded the mandate of the journal under the tagline “Public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism”''.''<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://placesjournal.org/|title=Places Journal|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref> Her editorial direction is described as “harnessing the moral and investigative power of public scholarship to promote equitable cities and sustainable landscapes.”<ref name=":3" />

Levinson has led funding campaigns to support the research and publication on topics that might not otherwise be addressed. This has resulted in funding from the Graham Foundation for three initiatives – History of the Present: Cities in Transition,<ref name=":3" /> Future Archive<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5232-future-archive|title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Places Journal|website=www.grahamfoundation.org|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> and the Writers’ Fund.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5526-places-journal-writers-fund|title=Graham Foundation > Grantees > Places Journal|website=www.grahamfoundation.org|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> The Inequality Chronicles, a series investigating racial, social and economic inequality in American cities, was funded by The Kresge Foundation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://placesjournal.org/series/the-inequality-chronicles/|title=The Inequality Chronicles: A Series on Places Journal|work=Places Journal|access-date=2018-05-01|language=en-US}}</ref>

Levinson has also used ''Places'' as a foundation on which to build a range of related enterprises that seek to expand participation, readership and the dissemination of scholarship on the built environment. Initiatives include Places Books, a collaboration between Places and Princeton Architectural Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://press.princeton.edu/catalogs/series/title/places-books.html|title=Browse Princeton Catalog in Places Books {{!}} Princeton University Press|website=press.princeton.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-04-29}}</ref> The first in the series is ''Where are the Women Architects?'' by Despina Stratigakos, which has been well received across academia and the architectural profession.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Where are the women architects?|last=Despina|first=Stratigakos|isbn=9781400880294|location=Princeton|oclc=935925102|date = 2016-04-12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-where-are-the-women-architects-despina-stratigakos-princeton-university-press|title=Where are the Women Architects?, by Despina Stratigakos|last=Samuel|first=Flora|authorlink=Flora Samuel|date=June 2, 2016|website=Times Higher Education}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiparlour.org/where-are-the-women-architects/|title=Where are the Women Architects|last=Thompson|first=Kerstin|authorlink=Kerstin Thompson|date=October 10, 2016|website=Parlour: women, equity, architecture}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://spacing.ca/national/2017/01/24/book-review-where-are-the-women-architects/|title=Book Review: Where Are the Women Architects? - Spacing National|date=2017-01-24|work=Spacing National|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref> The Places Reading List is a collaborative tool that allows readers to share knowledge and generate content.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://placesjournal.org/news/places-journal-launches-new-tool-for-interdisciplinary-public-scholarship/|title=Places Journal launches new tool for interdisciplinary public scholarship|work=Places Journal|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.archdaily.com/609192/places-journal-launches-new-tool-for-sharing-articles-about-architecture-landscape-and-urbanism|title=Places Journal Launches New Tool for Sharing Articles about Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism|date=2015-03-13|work=ArchDaily|access-date=2018-04-29|language=en-US}}</ref>

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