Lyndsey Deaton, Ph.D., AIA, AICP, PMP, LEED GA
Assistant Professor
Contact
Richard A. McMahan School of Architecture
Office: Lee 2 - 143
Website: https://lyndseydeaton.com/
Email: ldeaton@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Oregon (2021); M. Building Science Construction, Auburn University (2011); B.S. Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology (2007)
Courses
Architectural Programming and Pre-Design (ARCH 4880/6880); Research Methods (ARCH 8210); Health Facilities Planning and Design Seminar (ARCH 8860); Graduate Studio in Architecture + Health (ARCH 8950/8970); Graduate Comprehensive Studio (ARCH 8920); Graduate Architecture Studio: Selected Topics (ARCH 8960); Fluid Studios; Doctoral Courses (e.g., DBE 8050, 8150, 9900)
Research Interests
spatial equity, urban design, community health, environmental design, displacement & gentrification
Lyndsey Deaton, PhD, AIA, AICP, PMP, LEED GA is a licensed architect and certified planner with projects across the United States, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. She is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at Clemson University, where she teaches and conducts research in the Architecture + Health Graduate Program. She is a Faculty Scholar in the Clemson University School of Health Research (CUSHR). Her work investigates and challenges concepts of health across a wide range of venues, from the design of healthcare facilities to the role of equitable participation in community health planning. She is currently working on two original studies: a Post Occupancy Evaluation Toolkit for Milieu Space in Children's Mental Health Facilities with the University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital and GBBN Architects, and Housing for Affordability, Relationships, Belonging, Opportunity, and Resilience (HARBOR): Designing for Young People in Transition with Greenville's Pendleton Place and LS3P. In the past 20 years, she has worked on 30+ architectural projects and 80+ master planning/urban planning projects. Her designs have been featured in Architect Magazine (2011) and received 30+ awards including the American Planning Association Federal Planning Division Honor Award for Collaborative Planning on NASA Kennedy Space Center Vision Plan and Programmatic Environmental Assessment (2022), the Lafarge Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction (2012), the American Planning Association’s Outstanding Collaborative Planning Project (2016), the Mayor’s Choice Award, City of Eugene (2017). She currently practices as a Senior Architect and Planner with The Urban Collaborative. Dr. Deaton focuses on the role of urban design in shaping community health, especially for vulnerable groups. In 2021, the University of Oregon awarded her a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture for her work titled No Place to Play? Studies of How Adolescents Use Public Space in Dispossessed Communities (book forthcoming). As a peer-reviewed measure of significance, her research has earned the Creativity Professorship (2023), the CUSHR fellowship (2023), the Informal Urbanism Fellowship with the University of Melbourne (2022), the Julie and Roxy Dixon Fellowship (2017), and the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship (2019).
Professional/Research Links
https://www.linkedin.com/company/health-equity-environmental-design-lab
Awards
Creativity Professorship 2023-2025; Georgia Tech's 40 under 40 for “significant contributions in their field at an early age;” Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 23rd Annual Great Places Awards; Architecture Research Centers Consortium (ARCC): 2020 King Student Medal for Excellence in Architecture + Environmental Design Research
Selected Professional Works
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Growing Up in Manila, Philippines“ in Growing Up in Cities of the Twenty-First Century: A Global Study with Young People and Their Urban Environment. Eds. Angela Kruetz and Beau Beza. Princeton: Springer: 2026.
Deaton, Lyndsey and Ghazanfari, Zahra. (2025) “Unintended gentrification: Community perspectives on children’s active mobility in the American South,” in Cities and Health, 1–19. https://doi-org.libproxy.clemson.edu/10.1080/23748834.2025.2544098
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Dispossession, Adolescence, and the Missing Public Spaces of Hyderabad, India,“ in The Routledge Handbook on the Influence of Built Environments on Diverse Childhoods. Eds. Kate Bishop and Katina Dimoulias. Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284406
Deaton, Lyndsey & James Miller. Community Displacement: How Architectural Adaptations Show Resistance to Assimilation, Fabrications, 34:3, 518-544, 2024. DOI: 10.1080/10331867.2025.2452662
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Freedmen’s Town versus Frenchtown: A Spatial History of Black Settlements in Houston, TX,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2020.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Rise of the Humanitarian Planning Committee,” in Interplan Spring 2020.
Gillem, Mark and Lyndsey Deaton. “New Traditions of Placemaking in Central-West Africa,” in Whose Tradition? Ed. AlSayyad, Nezar, Mark Gillem, and David Moffat. London: Routledge, 2017. DOI: 10.4324/9781315640112-13
Gillem, Mark and Lyndsey Pruitt. “Security, Surveillance and the New Landscapes of Migration,” in Ethno-Architecture and the Politics of Migration. Ed. Mirjana Lozanovska. London: Routledge, 2016. DOI: 10.4324/9781315738130
Reviews & Interviews
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Improving Health + Equity with Young People through Architecture,” in Oz (the Journal of the College of Architecture, Planning, and Design at Kansas State University) Volume 46 2024.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Review of Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions by Peter Bosselmann,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review Spring 2023.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Review of Adaptations of the Metropolitan Landscape in Delta Regions by Peter Bosselmann,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review Spring 2023.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Urban Reinventions: San Francisco’s Treasure Island,” by Eds. Lynne Horiuchi and Tanu Sankalia,” in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review, Spring 2019.
Conference Presentations (Delivered)
Hu, S. and Deaton, L. “The Politics of Translating Tradition: Continuity and Reinterpretation of Auto-Centric Planning Traditions” in IASTE Working Paper Series. Spring 2026.
Hu, S., Deaton, L., Fleming, L., Ghazanfari, Z., “Streets of Heat and Hazard: A Pre-Relocation Architectural Analysis of White Horse Road through Adolescent Eyes,” presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium at Kennesaw University in Atlanta, Georgia: 2026.
Deaton, L. Jiang, S., Luria, J., Lied, M. “From Insight to Impact: Co-Evaluating Therapeutic Environments for Pediatric Behavioral Health,” presented at The International Summit & Exhibition on Health Facility Planning, Design & Construction (PDC) in Houston, TX: 2026.
Deaton, L., Anton, Z., Gordon, B., “One Plan, Many Cultures: Co-Creating Defense Communities Across Borders,” presented at the World Town Planning Day Symposium from the American Planning Association, virtual: 2025.
Deaton, L., Nicoletti, M., Zhou, Y., Meggett, K., Ghazanfari, Z., “The Impacts of New-Build Gentrification on Children’s Spatial Justice: The Case of Taikoo Li, Chengdu,” presented at the Environmental Design Research Association at Dalhousie University in Halifax (Kjipuktuk), Nova Scotia: 2025.
Deaton, L., Salian, Y., Meggett, K., Fleming, L., Capurso, G., Ghazanfari, Z., Zhou, Y. “Restorative vs. Pathogenic Public Spaces: Investigating the Impact of Urban Green-Space Parks in Rapidly Growing Mid-Sized Cities,” presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium at University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland: 2025.
Deaton, L. and Griffin, M. “Improving Services for Families Through Physical Space and Environmental Design Decisions,” presented at the Nurturing Developing Minds Conference at Furman University, Greenville: 2025
Deaton, L., Jiang, S., Luria, J., Lied, M. “Transforming Pediatric Mental Health: An Innovative Design and Care Model,” presented at the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo in Austin: 2024.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Gender in a Space Economy: Assessing Fear as a Navigation Lens for Adolescent Girls in Dispossessed Communities” presented at the International Association for the Study of People-Environment Studies at Universitat de Barcelona in Barcelona: 2024
Deaton, L., and Ghazanfari, Z., “Typology as a tool for Understanding Treatment Impacts on Architecture,” presented at the Environmental Design Research Association at University of Oregon in Portland: 2024.
Deaton, L., Ghazanfari, Z., Spencer, A., Denton, G., Cox, T. “Designing an Inclusive Public Realm: Gentrification and Perspectives on Active Transportation in the American South,” presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium at Aarhaus University in Aarhaus, Denmark: 2024.
Deaton, L. Schlacter, R., Loomis, P. “Requirements Based Planning,” presented at the Federal Planning Division National Conference at Washington: 2024.
Deaton, L., Ghazanfari, Z., Spencer, A., Denton, G. “Disrupting Auto-Centric Planning Traditions: Gentrification and Perspectives on Children’s Active Mobility in the American South,” presented at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments at Riydah: 2024.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Disruption of Adolescents’ “Public” Spaces: How resettlement architecture reconfigures access and quality in the built environmental,” presented at the Environmental Design Research Association at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City: 2023.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “Accessible Public Space: Spatializing Adolescent Girls’ Fears on the Urban Fringe of Hyderabad, India,” presented at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium at Texas Tech University in Dallas: 2023
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Disruption of Adolescents’ “Public” Spaces: How resettlement architecture reconfigures access and quality in the built environmental,” presented at the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments at National University of Singapore in Singapore: 2022.
Deaton, Lyndsey. “The Value of Children’s Access to Safe Public Space: Building urban children’s resilience against the shocks and threats of resettlement in Manila, Philippines,” in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Gothenburg, Sweden: 2020
Grants
The LS3P Design Interventions Grant
Clemson CAAC Faculty Research Development Program Grant
Clemson STEM Industry Grant
O’Cain/Matthews Faculty Support Gift
