Cleary Larkin
Cleary Larkin
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Cleary Larkin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban & Regional Planning and Director of the Historic Preservation Program. Her coursework focuses on history and theory of historic preservation, historic preservation planning and policy, and the intersections of historic preservation with contemporary challenges such as climate change, social justice and affordable housing. Dr. Larkin’s research interests include interdisciplinary practice; historic land-use decisions as a source of inequity in communities; and the evolution of historic preservation as a discipline. Current research projects include Resilient Landscape and Building Adaptation of the DeMesa Sanchez House (PISA), Florida’s Green Book Sites, and multiple projects for PIN, including Heritage and Housing for Nantucket, Intangible Heritage at Risk, the West Monomoy/New Guinea neighborhood survey, and the Main Street Material History & Streetscapes Assessment.
Prior to her role as Director of UF’s Historic Preservation program, Dr. Larkin was Program Coordinator for the newly formed Florida Resilient Cities (FRC) program at UF’s Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER). The first FRC project focused on sustainable recovery and growth of Port St. Joe, a historic mill town in the Florida panhandle, damaged by Hurricane Michael in 2018. Dr. Larkin continues to work with the African American community in North Port St. Joe as they focus on community revitalization and resilience.
Cleary Larkin has over twenty years of practitioner experience as a licensed architect, historian and preservation planner. She has worked for Frazier Associates in Staunton, Virginia, Beyer Blinder Belle, Architects & Planners in New York City and as Historic Preservation Planner for the City of Gainesville, Florida. She is an advisory member of Gainesville Modern and sits on the Board of the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arkansas, a Master of Science in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. with a concentration in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Florida.
