CNU Board

CNU Board

Zach Borders

Zach Borders works as an architect, urban planner and designer in the River North neighborhood of Chicago where he also resides. He is co-founder and principal of Civic Art Works, LLC, whose mission is to seek out, restore, preserve and celebrate historic architecture and planning documents. Borders edited ‘Prairie Urbanism’ that focused on urbanism throughout the state of Illinois and the Chicago region for CNU XII and is the author of the upcoming book ‘Washington’. He earned Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies, Master of Architecture and Master of Urban Planning degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Borders is a member of the Chicago Architecture Club and currently serves as the secretary for CNU Illinois.

Stephanie E. Bothwell

Ms. Bothwell is a community planner and an urban and landscape designer. Her practice currently focuses on the role of design in creating healthy, activity-friendly environments. Among her clients are the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Trust for the National Mall. Until recently, she was Director of Urban Design for Downtown DC and prior to that she was Director of the American Institute of Architects' Center for Livable Communities. Since receiving her Masters of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she has been on the faculty of Auburn University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She was also Senior Landscape Architect for the City of Boston's neighborhood revitalization agency. Her projects include the creation of the Orlando Naval Training Center new town, the redesign of Washington, DC's Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, and HOPE VI developments. She has won numerous prizes, and her writing and work appears in a variety of publications. She lectures extensively across the country on the role of landscape in the creation of community.

Hank Dittmar

Hank Dittmar became Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment in January 2005. The Prince's Foundation is an educational charity established by the Prince of Wales to improve the quality of people's lives by teaching and practising timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building. Mr. Dittmar has 25 years of leadership experience in the fields of urban design, transportation planning and development. Prior to assuming the post with The Prince's Foundation, Mr. Dittmar was President and CEO of Reconnecting America, a nonprofit organization focused on building regions and communities around transit and walking rather than solely around the automobile. From 1993 to 1998, Dittmar was the Executive Director of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, the American national coalition for transportation reform. He has also served as a regional planner, an airport director and a public transit manager. His new book, The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development, edited with Gloria Ohland and involving many prominent new urbanists as coauthors, was published in December 2003 by Island Press. He resides in London, England. He currently Chairs the CNU Board.

Victor Dover

Urban designer and town planner Victor Dover, AICP, is a charter member of the Congress for New Urbanism. As principal-in-charge of Dover, Kohl & Partners, a leading new urbanist town planning firm based in Coral Gables, Florida, Dover has was won multiple CNU Charter Awards, including one for the widely praised town of I’On in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Dover-Kohl took home two awards from this year’s awards ceremony in Philadelphia, one for a traditional-neighborhood-based citywide plan for fast-growing Fayetteville, Arkansasand the other for a brownfield redevelopment in Antigua, Guatemala, a joint submission with Castillo Arquitectos. Dover has led more than 100 charrettes and spearheaded planning in Ocean Springs, MS following Hurricane Katrina. Dover played a major role in establishing CNU’s first and largest chapter, CNU Florida, and served as the organization’s founding chair. He has taught courses as a visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture, his alma mater, and also at the Mayors Institute on City Design. He was also a member of the founding board for the National Charrette Institute and has been instrumental in forming the Form-Based Codes Institute.

Ellen Dunham-Jones

Ellen Dunham-Jones serves on the Board of Directors for CNU and the Executive Committee of the Atlanta chapter of CNU. She is a registered architect, Associate Professor and Director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She lectures widely and is the author of over 40 articles and several chapters in books. Her research links contemporary architectural theory and contemporary real estate development. An advocate for alternatives to sprawl, she is co-writing a book on retrofitting suburbs. She has received grants from the Graham and W. Alton Jones Foundations, Seaside Institute, and the MIT HASS Fund. In 2004, she made the DesignIntelligence Honor Roll as one of 30 leaders who bridge practice and education. She co-teaches a lecture course in contemporary architectural theory, serves on the advisory boards for the journals Thresholds and Places, the AIA Atlanta Urban Design Committee, the Atlanta ULI Executive committee, and was an advisor to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Architect Selection Task Force. She was Chair of the Education Task Force of the Congress of the New Urbanism from 1998-2001, served a five-year term on NAAB accreditation visits and co-chaired the 2003 ACSA National Meeting. As a former partner in Dunham-Jones and LeBlanc Architects, she received an AIA award for the design of Free Bridge and the Rivanna Riverfront and two honorable mentions in national design competitions. Dunham-Jones received her AB in architecture and planning, summa cum laude (1980) and M.Arch (1983) with the AIA Henry Adams Certificate of Merit from Princeton University. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2001, she worked as an architect in New York City and taught as an Assistant Professor at UVA(1986-1993) and as Associate Professor at MIT (1993-2000).

Douglas Farr

Doug Farr is the founding principal of Farr Associates, an architecture and planning firm regarded by many as one of the most sustainable design practices in the country. Having a mission to design sustainble human environments, Farr Associate's unique niche is in applying the principles of green building at the scale of the neighborhood and in designing green buildings exclusively for urban contexts. Farr Associates also holds the unique distinction of being the only architecture firm in the world that has designed two LEED-Platinum buildings: the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology. An architecture graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, Doug is on the board of the Congress for New Urbanism and also chairs the LEED Neighborhood Development project, a first ever leadership standard for sustainable land developments, about to enter its pilot phase. Farr Associates designs healthy and valuable places and buildings for its private, not for profit and public sector clients. Having worked for John Vinci, Davis Brody and Paul Rudolph, Farr's own work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, and Doug is a featured speaker on an upcoming six-part PBS series on sustainability and green buildings.

Norman Garrick

Norman Garrick, associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Connecticut and director of UCONN’s new Center for Smart Transportation, specializes in the planning and design of urban transportation systems, including transit, streets and highways, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. As the Transportation Task Force co-chair, Garrick has been an essential member of the CNU/ITE urban thoroughfares project. At a critical point in the project, Garrick tirelessly reviewed comments on the manual and incorporated the advice in a productive way. Garrick holds a Ph.D. and MSCE from Purdue University, and a BSCE from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. With a career that bridges academic study and engineering practice, Garrick is an effective leader in transportation reform.

Raymond Gindroz

Raymond L. Gindroz is a co-founder and principal of Urban Design Associates. He has been a critic and lecturer in urban design at Yale, visiting professor of urban design at City University of New York, and critic and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon. He has lectured extensively on urban design and architecture throughout the U.S. and Western Europe. He helped pioneer the development of participatory planning methods for neighborhoods, downtowns, and regional plans. Mr. Gindroz has led UDA's effort to revitalize cities, especially the revival of traditional mixed-income neighborhoods. These include inner-city neighborhoods, public housing projects, new suburbs, and rural communities. He holds B.Arch. and M.Arch. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and a Diploma from Centro per gli Studi di Architettura, A. Palladio, Vicenza, Italy.

Jacky Grimshaw

Jacquelyne D. Grimshaw works with the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago where she directs the center's transportation and air quality program and is responsible for the center's research efforts, computer modeling programs, and community development activities. She has extensive experience developing consensus in support of less-polluting transportation options and initiating programs that assist the revitalization of inner-city neighborhoods. Grimshaw previously served as the Deputy Director for Economic Development for the City of Chicago and worked for the Chicago Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. She is a member of the President's Council for Sustainable Development and the Advisory Board of the Surface Transportation Policy Project. Grimshaw holds a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and attended the Public Policy Institute at Governors State University.

Douglas Kelbaugh

Douglas Kelbaugh, FAIA, is Dean and Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College. With experience both in academia and as a practicing architect and planner, Kelbaugh’s work has develop and popularize the urban design charrette. Working with CNU emeritus board member Peter Calthorpe and other partners, Kelbaugh has garnered numerous deign and educational awards, including national honor awards from the AIA and the American Wood Council. His 1976 solar house was the first to use a Trombe Wall and one of many pioneering passive solar buildings. As an author, his books on planning and design include the national bestseller Pedestrian Pocket Book (co-authored with Calthorpe), which helped lay the groundwork for the New Urbanism movement. His books COMMON PLACE: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design and Repairing the American Metropolis (in itlaics), is part of the new urbanist canon.

Katharine Kelley

Katharine Kelley is President of Green Street Properties and leads the company’s real estate development operations and new business pursuits.  She has more than 15 years of experience in the real estate business, including prior work with Post Apartment Development and The Landmarks Group.  She served as Senior Vice President and Executive Committee Member at Post, and acted as one of the catalysts for that company’s movement into “new urbanist” development.  After Post, she honed her entrepreneurial skills as a co-founder and President of Internet company Blue Rock Avenue.  Katharine is an Atlanta native and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  She received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard University.  Katharine also served for several years on the City of Atlanta Zoning Review Board, and currently serves on the Atlanta Habitat for Humanity Advisory Board and the UNC Johnston Honors Advisory Board.  She is married and has three children under the age of 7.

Hon. Mike Krusee

Mike Krusee has represented District 52 of the Texas House of Representatives since 1992. An established leader on issues related to the rapid growth of the Central Texas region, Representative Krusee serves as Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and is a member of the Executive Council of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO). His passionate interest in quality urban planning and design led him to a seat as a board member of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) in 2005. In his role as Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Representative Krusee has ushered in landmark improvements for both the Central Texas region and the entire State of Texas. His authorship of House Bill 3588, an omnibus transportation statute, is now widely held as one of the most comprehensive and visionary in Texas history; the legislation is now a national model for state transportation funding. Mike has been honored by many business and family organizations, including the Texas Association of Businesses and Chambers of Commerce, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, The Free Enterprise PAC, the Texas Eagle Forum, and the Free Market Foundation, for his commitment to conservative principles and free enterprise. A former litigation paralegal, he works for a document retrieval company with offices throughout the state. His five children were all educated in the Round Rock Independent School District.

Steve Maun

Steve J. Maun is the President of LeylandAlliance LLC, a Tuxedo, New York-based company that is taking a leading role in creating traditional neighborhoods across the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Southeast.  Steve has been a student of New Urbanism since its inception, and has fostered the vision now pursued by LeylandAlliance – to build a new company exclusively focused on the creation of new towns and neighborhoods – places that embrace tradition while setting new standards for innovation and environmental responsibility. To carry out its vision, LeylandAlliance forms strong working partnerships with talented and dedicated professionals who share its values and support its vision. Mr. Maun is a graduate of Princeton University and an executive board member of the Seaside Institute and the National Town Builders Association, a leading organization advocating smart growth and traditional neighborhood design.

Connie Moran

Connie M. Moran was elected Mayor of her hometown, Ocean Springs, in June 2005. Previously she was president of her own consulting firm, Moran Consultants, providing marketing and business development services. Ms. Moran has fifteen years experience in state and local government. She served three years as Director of Jackson County Economic Development until March 1999. Prior to this position, Ms. Moran served as Managing Director of the State of Mississippi European Office in Frankfurt, Germany for five years, recruiting new business and industry to the state on behalf of the Mississippi Development Authority. Ms. Moran holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Finance/Economics and International Commerce from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct graduate research in Germany. Ms. Moran is active in community volunteer and civic activities, and serves as a board director for Jackson County United Way and Boys and Girls Clubs. She has also served on the Jackson County Port Authority Board of Commissioners and on the Board of Trustees of the Walter Anderson Museum of Art.

Susan Mudd

Susan Mudd is now consulting with the State Environmental Leadership Program on a Midwest global warming campaign plan. She also works with the Gerald and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation in Chicago reviewing environmental grants. For over 15 years, she was Wisconsin Director of Citizens for a Better Environment. Susan has a J.D., an M.A. in Public Administration and Public Policy, and a certificate in Energy Policy. Her work experience includes air and water quality, pesticides, waste, pollution prevention, transportation and land use, and women’s health and the environment. She currently serves on the boards of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, the Congress for the New Urbanism and Earth Share of Illinois. She represents CNU on the LEED for Neighborhood Development core and partner committees and was a founding board member of the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance.

John Norquist

John Norquist's work promoting New Urbanism as an alternative to sprawl and antidote to sprawl's social and environmental problems draws on his experience as big-city mayor and prominent participant in national discussions on urban design and school reform. John was the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988-2004. Under his leadership, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown housing, and became a leading center of education and welfare reform. He has overseen a revision of the city's zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city's 3.1-mile Riverwalk. He has drawn widespread recognition for championing the removal of a .8 mile stretch of elevated freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million in infill development in the heart of Milwaukee. A leader in national discussions of urban design and educational issues, Norquist is the author of The Wealth of Cities, and has taught courses in urban policy and urban planning at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and at Marquette University. Norquist served in the Army Reserves from 1971 to 1977, earned his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He represented Milwaukee's south and west sides in the Wisconsin Legislature. He chaired the National League of Cities Task Force on Federal Policy and Family Poverty and served on the Amtrak Reform Council. He is married to CNU Board Member Susan Mudd. They have two children, Benjamin and Katherine.

Samuel Sherman

Samuel Sherman Jr. built more than 1,100 houses in suburban Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania before 2000, when he heard a radio interview with Andres Duany and embraced New Urbanism. Since then, he began Sam Sherman Associates LLC, and New Urban Ventures, to pursue New Urbanist developments in Philadelphia. Their Spring Arts Point development is rising on blocks that had languished for decades under Philadelphia’s “urban renewal” plan. The brownfields development won the Bronze Award from 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania for excellence in design and sustainability. Sherman is a board member of CNU’s Pennsylvania chapter, the Association for the New Urbanism in Pennsylvania. He is president of the Building Association of Philadelphia (and is its national legislative representative to the National Association of Home Builders), and a member of the Urban Land Institute. He also sits on the board of Neighborhoods Now! and is on the executive committee of the Francisville Community Development Planning Group. Sherman served on Philadelphia Mayor-elect Michael Nutter’s sustainable development committee, and is part of his transition team, helping to look at restructuring the city’s Department of Licenses and Inspections.

Dhiru Thadani

Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA is a principal and director of town planning in the firm of Ayers/Saint/Gross, Architects and Planners with offices in Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; and Phoenix, Arizona Since 1980 he has practiced architecture and urbanism in Asia, Europe and North and Central America. Dhiru was born in Bombay, India and moved to Washington, D.C. to attend the Catholic University of America from 1972-1978 where he received his undergraduate and graduate education in architecture. During his thirty-three years in Washington, D.C. he has taught, practiced, and has worked to place architecture and urbanism in the public eye. Since its formation in 1993, Dhiru has been a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and was appointed to the Board in 2005. From 2000 to 2005, he served as Chair of the CNU's Design Task Force, and has undertaken and completed many initiatives. Dhiru has been involved in new developments, urban retrofits, neighborhood revitalization, and infill densification. His goal has been to create neighborhoods that are walkable, and contain a diverse range and balance of workplace and housing. In addition, these new developments support regional planning for open space, and architecture that is responsive to the culture, climate and context. For the past twenty years, Dhiru has been the lead designer for several real estate developments in first and third world countries. The developments range in scale from government-sponsored autonomous new towns for 500,000 inhabitants to smaller resort communities for 900 residents, as well as small-scale residential infill interventions in revitalizing neighborhoods.

Todd Zimmerman

Todd Zimmerman is a managing director of Zimmerman/Volk Associates, the New Jersey-based research and development consulting company. ZVA is generally acknowledged by the country's most experienced practitioners of the New Urbanism to be the leading expert on the residential market feasibility of mixed-income, compact, traditional and sustainable communities. ZVA's work ranges from urban redevelopment to desert new towns; from new mixed-income inner-city neighborhoods to high-end beachfront resorts. Using its unique target market methodology, ZVA has established the optimum market position for over 160 proposed new urbanist communities and urban redevelopments in 40 states from New England to Hawaii. Zimmerman was one of the original CNU task force chairmen, one of the framers of the CNU Charter, and most recently chairman of the CNU Council of Task Force Chairs. He is a frequent speaker-on housing, households, urban and regional settlement patterns, and compact and sustainable development.

Board Emeritus

Peter Calthorpe

Peter Calthorpe has practiced architecture since 1972 and founded Calthorpe Associates in 1983. After attending Antioch College, he studied architecture at Yale University. Calthorpe has lectured widely throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and South America and has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, University of Washington, University of Oregon and University of North Carolina. Calthorpe is the co-author of Sustainable Communities and author of The Next American Metropolis. He has received numerous honors and awards and has been cited by Newsweek as one of 25 "innovators on the cutting edge."

Robert Davis

Robert Davis is President and principal of Seaside Community Development Corporation (SCDC). He is responsible for the planning and development of Seaside, a resort town in the Florida panhandle. Seaside has revived local vernacular traditions in its urban design, its architecture and the construction of its homes. Seaside has been the focus of widespread media attention in Time, The Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, The Atlantic, The New York Times and in broadcasts on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, and the BBC. SCDC has been in business since 1982 and currently employs approximately 120 people.

Andrés Duany

Andres Duany has been a founding partner of two very influential architecture firms: Arquitectonica and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. With the latter firm, he has co-designed the towns of Seaside and Kentlands, along with more than 140 other neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Duany has written a chapter of Architectural Graphic Standards and The Lexicon of the New Urbanism. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, has worked as visiting professor at many other institutions, and teaches planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. DPZ has been the subject of over 800 articles and has received the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture. Along with his B.Arch. from Princeton, his M.Arch from Yale, and his study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Mr. Duany also holds two honorary doctorates.

Elizabeth Moule

Elizabeth Moule is a principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists. The firm specializes in urbanism in new and existing places, campus architecture and planning, civic architecture, and historic preservation and adaptive reuse. The firm's work is published widely, most recently in The International Architectural Yearbook and in two books by James Steele, Los Angeles: The Current Condition and Sustainable Architecture. Their work was shown in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition "Urban Revisions." Ms. Moule is CEO of Meridian Properties, a real estate development company dedicated to new urbanist infill development. She received a B.A. in art history from Smith College, attended the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, and holds a M.Arch. from Princeton. Ms. Moule teaches as a visiting critic at universities in the United States and abroad. She lectures frequently on architecture and urbanism.

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk

Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is an architect and town planner who cofounded Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company in 1980. DPZ has distinguished itself by designing traditional towns and retrofitting livable downtowns into existing suburbs. In 1991, Ms. Plater-Zyberk helped write a groundbreaking Traditional Neighborhood Development Ordinance for Miami-Dade County, Florida. Since 1995, she has been Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture. At Miami, she founded a master of architecture program in Suburb and Town Design and has served as Director for the Center for Urban and Community Design. She has a B.Arch from Princeton and a M.Arch. from Yale. She has been a visiting professor at many major North American schools of architecture, has been a Resident at the American Academy in Rome, and is a trustee of Princeton University.

Stefanos Polyzoides

Stefanos Polyzoides is a principal of Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists. He was born in Athens, Greece, received his B.A. and M.Arch. from Princeton University, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973. He is a registered architect in the states of California and Arizona. Mr. Polyzoides has worked on the practice, theory, and education of architecture and urban design. His projects have included institutional and civic buildings, historic rehabilitation, commercial projects, housing, campus planning, and urban design. He is an associate professor of architecture at the University of Southern California and has been a visiting professor at several other schools, including Princeton University. Mr. Polyzoides' articles have been featured in both national and international journals. He is the author of two books, Los Angeles Courtyard Housing: A Typological Analysis and R.M. Schindler, Architect. In addition, his research has produced four distinguished exhibitions and exhibition catalogs: "Caltech: 1910-1950," "Myron Hunt: 1868-1952," "Wallace Neff," and "Johnson, Kaufmann & Coate."

Daniel Solomon

Daniel Solomon directs Solomon E.T.C., A WRT Company. His work has been widely published and won more than 75 design awards. Solomon holds a bachelor of architecture degree from Columbia University, a bachelor of arts degree from Stanford University and a master of architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He is professor emeritus of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a faculty member for thirty-five years. The author of the books ReBuilding and the recently released Global City Blues, Solomon has written many articles and regularly lectures in the United States and abroad.