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Ann Forsyth

researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-8400-6842

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ58346892 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ann Forsyth is the Ruth and Frank Stanton Professor of Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

In 2018, Forsyth won the Margarita McCoy Award for the Advancement of Women in Planning.

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The public source identifies “Ann Forsyth” as researcher, ORCID id # 0000-0002-8400-6842. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Forsyth, researcher and ORCID.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-05-08. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Forsyth, researcher and ORCID providing the first useful test.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q58346892. VIAF identifies the subject as 48610986. The Library of Congress control number is n2003119894. 1 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ann Forsyth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.