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Back when Daniel O’Shaughnessy was a student at Georgia Institute of Technology and thinking of being a civil engineer, Atlanta was undergoing something of a renaissance. (It still is.)
“New life came into the city,” O’Shaughnessy said. “I was always interested in construction—but I slowly realized the importance to me was not so much the buildings as objects but how they interact [with] the way people live and quality of life.”
O’Shaughnessy transitioned into urban planning, earning a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania, and wound up working in former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s office on a fellowship.