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Peter Calthorpe
Robert Caro
Henry Cisneros

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Peter Calthorpe, author, CNU co-founder, and leading regional and community planner

A co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a Principal at Calthorpe Associates, Peter Calthorpe is a remarkably influential voice in the worlds of planning and sustainability, advancing the new urbanist vision that successful places—whether neighborhoods, villages, or urban centers—must be diverse in use and user, walkable and transit-oriented, and environmentally sustainable. His work has focused on how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth.

Calthorpe remains one of the most sought after coordinators of regional planning. In Austin and other cities, he is lending his expertise on integrating transit-oriented development (TOD) into regional growth plans, bringing mass transit to the forefront of city development. His firm Calthorpe Associates is responsible for major regional design projects in Portland, Salt Lake, the Twin Cities, and Los Angeles. Calthorpe is now the Lead Planner for the “Louisiana Speaks” planning initiative, and his firm is helping advise the Louisiana Recovery Authority on how southern Louisiana can recover from Hurricane Katrina while restoring wetlands and other ecologically sensitive areas.

During the Clinton Administration, Calthorpe provided guidance for HUD's Empowerment Zone and Consolidated Planning Programs as well as the HOPE VI program to rebuild failed public housing projects. His international work has demonstrated that community design with a focus on environmental sustainability and human scale can be adapted throughout the globe.

Calthorpe has written influential works such as Sustainable Communities with Sim Van der Ryn, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. His latest book, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl with William Fulton, explains how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth.

A graduate of the Yale School of Architecture, Calthrope has taught at U.C. Berkeley, University of Washington, University of Oregon, and University of North Carolina. Calthorpe has received numerous honors and awards, including appointment to the President's Councils for Sustainable Development and, most recently, the Urban Land Institute’s JC Nichols Prize for Lifetime Achievement.

Robert Caro, pulitzer-prize winning author and urban historian

More than three decades after its publication, Robert Caro’s tenaciously researched biography of Robert Moses, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, remains a seminal tome in many a new urbanist’s library. The Power Broker laid bare for a broad audience the disastrous effects on New York’s urban form of excessive road building and neighborhood-clearing urban renewal combined with power politics.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a selection in the Modern Library’s list of the 100 greatest non-fiction books of the 20th Century, the book documented the wholesale destruction of neighborhoods in the rush to build highways, concentrate public housing and remake the city without regard for those elements that make a city viable as a living community.

The New York native’s attention to detail first surfaced at the Horace Mann School in1952, when he helped translate the school newspaper into Russian and mail 10,000 copies to the Soviet Union. He graduated from Princeton University and was a reporter for the New Brunswick, N.J., Daily Home News and, later, Newsday. He was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Caro’s ongoing four-volume work, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” includes The Path to Power (published in 1982), Means of Ascent (1990) and Master of the Senate (2002), which earned Caro his second Pulitzer. It also won the National Book Award, Carl Sandburg Award, John Steinbeck Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Gold Medal in Biography.

Caro, 72, addresses CNU for the first time.

Henry Cisneros, innovative former HUD Secretary, author and affordable housing developer

Henry Cisneros is is best known to new urbanists as the first cabinet secretary to embrace New Urbanism (which he did in 1996 at CNU IV in Charleston, S.C.). As Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton presidency, he was patron of the HOPE VI program, which began replacing deteriorated public housing towers with mixed-use neighborhoods – most of them designed according to new urbanist principles.

A San Antonio native, Cisneros became the city’s youngest alderman in 1975 (though this mark was eclipsed in 2003), and was elected mayor in 1981, becoming the first Hispanic mayor of a large U.S. city. Cisneros won national recognition and re-election – three times – as his administration revived San Antonio’s economy by investing in the city’s infrastructure and downtown. In 1984, the Democrats’ presidential nominee, Walter Mondale, almost chose him as his running mate (though he eventually chose Geraldine Ferraro, of New York).

Cisneros earned Bachelor of Arts and Master’s degrees in urban and regional planning from Texas A&M University, a Master’s degree in public administration from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in public administration from George Washington University. Cisneros, 60, is executive chairman of CityView, and author or co-author of books including Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy, and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design. After leaving the Clinton administration in 1996, he served as president and CEO of Univision Communications from 1997 to 2000. In 1999, Texas Monthly magazine named him “Texas Mayor of the Century.”

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Jim Adams, Principal Architect, ROMA Design Group

Robert Alminana, Principal, Hall Alminana Inc.
Robert Alminana, AICP, LEED AP, is a founding principal of Hall Alminana Inc., a consulting firm devoted to providing participatory planning, coding and design services with an emphasis on SmartCode. Mr. Alminana has managed, organized and participated in many urban revitalization and new neighborhood master plans and specific plans, urban and architectural design regulations, and urban design improvements. Mr. Alminana holds an MArc from University of Miami. He is the co-author, with Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, of “The New Civic Art, Elements of Town Planning."

Erik Anderson, Design Principal, HOK
Mr. Andersen, a Design Principal with HOK, has 21 years of experience in all phases of the design and planning process for a variety of facility types with a specialization in educational and other public and institutional facilities. He has been involved in higher education projects around the country realizing campus goals and visions through a team-oriented participatory approach that brings together the talents of the design, construction and client teams. Mr. Andersen is a Registered Architect in Illinois, a LEED® accredited designer, and is an active member of the Chicago Chapter of the United States Green Building Council.

Geoffrey Anderson, Executive Director, Smart Growth America

John Anderson, Vice President, Planning and Design, New Urban Builders, Inc.

Monte Anderson, President, Options Real Estate
Monte Anderson is the President of Options Real Estate Investments, Inc. a multi-service real estate company specializing in creating sustainable neighborhoods in southern Dallas and northern Ellis counties. Mr. Anderson began his real estate career in 1984 and since that time has concentrated solely on improving the living and working environments in these communities. His company developed Main Station, the first mixed-use development in Duncanville, Texas. He is also responsible for the renovation of the historic Belmont Hotel, a 68-room boutique hotel, café and spa located in the Trinity River Corridor of Dallas and which was the recipient of Preservation Dallas and Preservation Texas awards. His most recent development is a 131-acre mixed-use, traditional neighborhood development currently under construction in Midlothian, Texas. Mr. Anderson is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his community involvement and he currently serves as president of the founding board of directors for the North Texas Chapter of CNU.

Arthur W. Andersson, President, ANDERSSON•WISE ARCHITECTS

GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking
GB Arrington is the Principal Practice Leader for PB PlaceMaking. In his role he is responsible for providing strategic direction and leading PB’s global transit-oriented development (TOD) practice. Before joining PB, he charted a new, award-winning direction for Portland Oregon’s transit agency. His innovative planning and community involvement strategies changed the face of the Portland region and received awards from the White House and the Federal Transit Administration. Mr. Arrington is one of the founders of the Rail~Volution conference, he is an active New Urbanist and chaired the Task Forces for the CNU.

Michael Arth, Pedestrian Villages, Inc.

Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Professor of Geography, University of Connecticut

Janet Attarian, Project Director, Streetscape & Urban Design, City of Chicago

Dena Belzer, Principal, Strategic Economics
Ms. Belzer specializes in connecting regional economic and demographic growth trends to real estate development activity and local policy initiatives. Ms. Belzer’s work draws upon a traditional urban economics framework and innovative analytical techniques to provide strategies for addressing growth and development-related issues. Ms. Belzer has completed many assignments involving interdisciplinary teams where short-term market conditions and long-term economic and demographic trends must inform community-planning efforts. Recent projects include Better Neighborhoods 2002 targeting three transit-oriented districts in San Francisco, revitalization strategies for several major arterial corridors in the Bay Area, and the Smart Growth Action Plan for Menlo Park. Building collaborative efforts among local governments to address regional growth issues is another focus of Ms. Belzer’s work. She helped organize and is now providing ongoing support to the Treasure Valley Partnership, a group of elected officials representing multiple jurisdictions in the Boise, ID region. Ms. Belzer is also working on the “Shaping Our Future” project with cities in Contra Costa County, California, and with mayors, city managers, and county representatives in Monterey County, California to implement city-centered growth policies. At the city level Ms. Belzer has conducted economic analyses for general plans, economic development strategies, economic indicators reports, redevelopment implementation plans and land utilization studies. California cities where she has performed this work include San Leandro, Calistoga, Azusa, Fremont, Oakland, San Leandro, Citrus Heights, Torrance, San Francisco, San Jose, and Watsonville. Ms. Belzer is also an expert on transit oriented development, fostering mixed-use districts, and local-serving retail attraction. She has helped to establish best practices for transit oriented development in multiple communities as well as writing extensively on the topic. Her work on retail revitalization in neighborhood shopping districts has also been recognized as a model for “best practice” by such organizations as Northern California Local Support Corporation. Ms. Belzer received a Master of City Planning from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in Psychology from Pitzer College. She serves on the Boards of the University of California, College of Environmental Design Alumni Association and Community Economics Inc., a non-profit organization specializing in affordable housing finance. Her publications include Visioning the Future: Strategies for Community Change published by HUD, 1994, (contributing author); Transit Oriented Development: From Rhetoric to Reality, published by the Great American Station Foundation and the Brookings Institution Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy, June, 2002; and Countering Sprawl with Transit Oriented Development, in Issues in Science and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, Fall 2002. Ms. Belzer received a National Business Women’s Week Award from the Business and Professional Women, Berkeley in 1996.

Ferd Belz, President , Cherokee Denver LLC
Ferd Belz is President of Cherokee Denver, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cherokee Investment Partners, LLC. Cherokee Denver owns the 50-acre former Gates Rubber Factory in Denver, CO, which is slated for a transit-oriented development of approximately seven million square feet. In his 25-year real estate career, Mr. Belz has developed over $1 billion of projects of virtually every real estate product type including land, hotels, resorts, commercial, residential, retail and mixed-use projects. Mr. Belz received degrees with honors in both architecture and engineering from the University of Kansas and began his career as a licensed architect. He is active in non-profit and service groups and assists in coaching children’s soccer. He and his wife, Christy, live in Denver and have one son, Charlie.

Kyndel Bennett, Managing Director, Cherokee

Jackie Benson, President, Benson Branding and Marketing
Jackie Benson is a Partner with Milesbrand Atlanta. She is a recognized specialist in the field of New Urbanism and Traditional Neighborhood Development. Ms. Benson’s marketing experience includes working with builders, developers and general real estate companies to plan, create, brand, market and sell new homes and communities. Prior to joining Milesbrand and opening the Atlanta office, Ms. Benson was President of Hedgewood Realty for Hedgewood Properties and in the mid 1990’s was Marketing Director for Jenny Pruitt New Homes. Ms. Benson worked with the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association and Southface Energy Institute to develop the EarthCraft House Program, currently one of the most successful green building programs in the country. She is Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Seaside Institute, a member of the Seaside/Pienza Institute, and Chairman of the Organizing Committee for CNU Atlanta, a chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. She has been a speaker for Seminars by the Seaside Institute, for the annual CNU conference, for ULI Master Planned Communities Conference and for the National Association of Home Builders Green Builders Show. In January, 2007, Ms. Benson presented a white paper on Branding Smart Growth Communities for the Environmental Protection Agency, Smart Growth Program.

David Bergman , Principal , Economic Research Associates,

Richard Bernhardt, Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Department Nashville-Davidson County
A town planner for over 30 years, Rick is Executive Director of the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Planning Department. Rick’s practice has focused on creating sustainable communities, neighborhoods and places through the use of traditional design principles. These techniques have been used to develop community-wide and project specific master plans. Prior to joining Metro, Rick was director EDAW’s Town Planning Studio having also served as Orlando’s Director of Planning and Development for seventeen years. His work with the Southeast Orlando Sector Plan and Baldwin Park resulted in the receipt of the initial Catherine Brown award from the Congress for the New Urbanism. Rick was educated at Auburn University (B.S. in Economics) and Ohio State University (Master of City Planning with a concentration in housing and urban structure) and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University in 1997.

Nora Black, Designer, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

Sinclair Black, FAIA, Architect, Black & Vernooy
A native of San Antonio, Sinclair Black earned his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from The University of Texas in 1962, and received his Master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. He became a registered architect in 1965 and soon after, opened his practice and joined the University of Texas School of Architecture faculty in 1967. In his courses at the University, Mr. Black always stressed revitalization of the central city through urban design principles. His Architecture and Urban Design practice has won 27 design awards for a number of projects, including the St. Stephens Master Plan, Central Park Master Plan and Central Market, the Great Streets Master Plan for 260 blocks of Downtown Austin, and the winner of the City Municipal Complex Competition. Sinclair has also served on many city committees, such as the “Town Lake Beautification Committee,” and non-profit boards, such as Trust for Public Land, the Downtown Austin Alliance, and the Executive Committee of the Urban Land Institute, Austin. In addition, Sinclair was a founder of the Environmental Conservancy Group that created Wild Basin Park in western Travis County. The many awards that recognize Sinclair’s accomplishments include two Austin “Community Foundation Awards,” the “Impact Award” from the Downtown Austin Alliance and the Heritage Society of Austin, “Downtowner of the Year” from the Texas Downtown Association, and the “Pioneer Award” from Envision Central Texas. In 1984, the American Institute of Architects, AIA, took note of Sinclair’s life’s work and made him a Fellow. As his long and admirable career continues, we have also taken note and honor Sinclair with an Athena Medal for his excellence in promoting practical, green, and smart urban design.

Howard M. Blackson III, Principal, PlaceMakers and Stantec

Brian Bochner, Senior Research Engineer, Texas Transportation Institute
Brian Bochner has over 35 years in traffic engineering, transportation planning, and thoroughfare design. He was recently ITE technical project manager for Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing of Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities, a new ITE proposed recommended practice. He currently assists FHWA to discuss CSS with practitioners. He served as reviewer and technical resource for newest edition of the MassHighways project development and geometric design manual which has a strong CSS approach. Brian has also worked on context sensitive road designs in Houston and Ft. Worth, Texas; Elgin, Illinois; St. Joseph, Michigan; Denver, Colorado; Frankfort, Kentucky.

Charles C. Bohl, Knight Program Director, University of Miami School of Architecture
Dr. Charles C. Bohl is a Research Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Miami, where he teaches the planning, design and development of livable communities and serves as Director of the Knight Program in Community Building. He is an expert on new town centers and livable community design, and is the author of Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages, a best-selling book published by the Urban Land Institute. He has lectured and consulted widely on planning, urban design and place making in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Bohl publishes across disciplines and his recent publications have included topics such as affordable housing, the rural-urban transect, retail globalization and place making. His most recent work, "Civic Art Then and Now: Towards a Culture of Good Place Making," will appear in a forthcoming book (edited with Jean Francois-Lejeune), Sitte, Hegemann, And The Metropolis: Modern Civic Art And International Exchanges (Routledge, 2008). He is the co-founder and co-editor of the new Journal of Urbanism, a quarterly academic journal devoted to international research on place making and urban sustainability being published by Routledge beginning in 2008.

William E. Borah, Attorney and Author, The Second Battle of New Orleans: A History of the Vieux Carré Riverfront-Expressway Controversy

Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Urban & Landscape Design
Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Urban and Landscape Design, is an expert on the creation of sustainable and beautiful open spaces and is located in the District of Columbia. She consults regularly for organizations on the relationship between traditional neighborhood design and life- long health through activity-friendly environments. Her design consulting includes the redevelopment of a brownfield site to create the new town, East Beach, in Norfolk, Virginia and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in DC. She formerly established and was Director of the American Institute of Architects' Center for Livable Communities. Prior to that, she was Senior Landscape Architect for the City of Boston. Ms. Bothwell is on the Executive Board of the Congress for the New Urbanism, founded CNUDC and participates on the Casey Tree Foundation Technical Advisory Committee. Her writing and other work appear in various publications, and she co-authored The Windsor Forum on Design Education. Since receiving her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she has served on the faculties of Auburn University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Radcliffe College, and the Boston Architectural Center.

Mike Brennan, Planner, Fort Worth South, Inc.

Paul C. Brophy, Principal , Brophy & Reilly LLC,
Paul C. Brophy is a principal with Brophy & Reilly LLC, a Maryland-based consulting firm specializing in housing, community development, and the management of complex urban redevelopment projects. Mr. Brophy has been involved with housing, economic development, and neighborhood improvement in the United States since 1970 as a practitioner, an author, and a professor. His clients include Enterprise Community Partners, Bank of America, the University of Chicago, the Goldseker Foundation; Shorebank; the Ford Foundation; the MacArthur Foundation; the Annie E. Casey Foundation; HUD; and other for-profit, non-profit businesses and financial institutions. Mr. Brophy is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he has worked with the Metropolitan Policy Program on a number of initiatives, including the publication of “Seizing City Assets: Ten Steps to Urban Land Reform,” which he co-authored with Jennifer Vey in 2002. From 1988-1993, Mr. Brophy was president and then vice chair and co-CEO of the Enterprise Foundation. While in these executive positions, Mr. Brophy worked with community groups and local governments around the nation to develop thousands of units of housing for low and moderate-income families, and to improve neighborhoods. For ten years, from 1977-1986, Mr. Brophy held positions in the administration of Mayor Richard S. Caliguiri in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, first as director of the Housing Department and then as executive director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority, where he was responsible for downtown and neighborhood revitalization, and economic development. . Mr. Brophy’s practice centers on the creation and implementation of strategies to improve the health of central cities, with an emphasis on mixed-income housing. Mr. Brophy worked on a number of HOPE VI projects, including Park DuValle, in Louisville, where he played a critical role in setting the vision and financing structure for this large-scale HOPE VI mixed-income community. Mr. Brophy has also worked mixed-income communities in Boston and Baltimore. . Mr. Brophy has co-authored three books, Neighborhood Revitalization: Theory and Practice (1975), Housing and Local Government (1982) and A Guide to Careers in Community Development, (2000), as well as numerous monographs and articles in professional journals, including “Mixed-Income Housing: Factors for Success.”

Tim Busse, Vice President/Director of Architecture, Whittaker Builders Inc.
Tim Busse, AIA is the Town Architect for the New Town at St. Charles. Tim has been involved with almost every facet of building one of the most successful, most affordable TND in the country. Tim has been with Whittaker Builders since 1994, serving as Vice President & Director of Architecture since 1999. Tim graduated from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. He is a licensed Architect in Missouri and been architect of record for a wide variety of projects.

Kent Butler, Ph.D., Director, Associate Dean for Research and Facilities, School of Architecture , The University of Texas at Austin

Julie Campoli, Co-author, “Visualizing Density”, Principal of Terra Firma Urban Design, Terra Firma Urban Design
Julie Campoli is a landscape architect, land planner, and principal of Terra Firma Urban Design in Burlington, Vermont. She has developed innovative graphic techniques to illuminate land use issues, and has presented many workshops and lectures on issues of landscape change, sprawl, and density.

Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Armando Carbonell is senior fellow and chair, Department of Planning and Urban Form, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think tank in Cambridge, Mass. is an urban planner with expertise in city and regional planning, property rights and regulation, and land use and the environment. He also teaches planning at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and served as founding executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency.

Monica Carney, Designer, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Monica Carney, Designer with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company's Charlotte, NC Office, has experience in town planning and traditional neighborhood development with a focus on the Light Imprint Initiative. Monica has her bachelor's degrees in Architecture and History from North Carolina State University. She recently completed her Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from Clemson University.

John Carroll, Principal, Carroll Investments

DeWayne Carver, Senior Project Manager, Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc
DeWayne Carver, AICP, CNU, is a transportation planner with Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc (HPE.) DeWayne is also a League Cycling Instructor (LCI) certified by the League of American Bicyclists, and a bike commuter and tourist. DeWayne's professional practice includes transportation planning and street design for New Urbanist projects, including new towns as well infill and greyfield redevelopment.

Milosav Cekic, Principal, MC/A Architects and Gateway Planning Group

Shannon Chance, AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture, Hampton University
Shannon Chance, AIA, is a licensed architect and a tenured associate professor of architecture at Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia. She is working toward a PhD in Higher Education Administration at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Professor Chance’s research foci include architectural and study abroad education, educational planning, and housing for long-term care. Her design work focuses on traditional design and historic preservation, visitability and accessibility, and environmental sustainability. Her recent work includes two textbook chapters on housing for long-term care in the “Handbook of Long-Term Care Administration and Policy.” Chance received Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees from Virginia Tech and has worked in architectural offices in Switzerland and Virginia.

Rick Cole, City Manager, Ventura, California
Rick Cole has been City Manager of Ventura since 2004. He was recently honored by Governing Magazine as one of their nine "2006 Public Officials of the Year," the only City Manager in the nation to earn that distinction. Governing cited his "intense focus on the details that add up to a vital city." Cole has focused on four key priorities, the ABCS of Ventura government: Accountable government; Balanced budget, Civic Engagement and Smart Growth. Called "one of Southern California's most visionary planning thinkers" by the Los Angeles Times, he previously served six years as City Manager of Azusa, California. Under Cole's leadership, Azusa was described as the "most improved city in the San Gabriel Valley" by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. He brings an unusual background to city management, having previously served as the Southern California Director of the Local Government Commission, Mayor of Pasadena, Executive Director of the West Hollywood Marketing Corporation and co-founder of the Pasadena Weekly newspaper. Cole is widely cited as an urban policy expert and is a member of the Congress for New Urbanism, the Urban Land Institute and the International City/County Manager's Association.

Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission
Judy Corbett is the founder and Executive Director of the Local Government Commission, an organization comprised of local elected officials implementing local solutions to the environmental, economic and social challenges of our day. Corbett holds an MS Degree from the University of California at Davis. With Michael Corbett, Ms. Corbett planned and developed the resource-conserving 60-acre Village Homes neighborhood in Davis, California described in her recent book Sustainable Communities, Learning from Village Homes. She has written and edited numerous publications addressing issues such as transportation, water sustainability, climate change, and others. In 2005, She received the 2005 Distinguished Leader Award from the APA and has been called a Hero for the Planet by Time.

Jaime Correa, Founding Partner, Jaime Correa and Associates

Stephen Coyle, AIA, LEEP AP, Owner, Town-Green

Marianne Cusato

David Cutler, Project Manager, Urban Design and Planning, Torti Gallas and Partners
Mr. Cutler is a Project Manager, Urban Designer, and Planner in Torti Gallas and Partners’ West Coast office. Currently, Mr. Cutler oversees the firm’s urban design and planning efforts for Leander, Texas’ new transit oriented town center, located at the terminus of Austin’s new Capitol Metro light rail line; for the mixed-use redevelopment of a 70-acre portion of Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, two miles from the city’s downtown core; and for the Hope VI restoration and redevelopment of New Orlean’s historic C.J. Peete public housing site, which was severely impacted by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. In addition to his work with Torti Gallas, Mr. Cutler serves as Vice President and Director of Urban Design and Planning for the Angeleno Heights Trolley Line, a non-profit volunteer organization working to restore Los Angeles’ historic electric streetcar service to Angeleno Heights and the surrounding downtown area. Previously, Mr. Cutler has worked with Albert Righter and Tittmann Architects in Boston and with Moore Ruble Yudell Architects and Planners in Santa Monica, contributing to the prestigious American Institute of Architects’ 2006 Firm of the Year Award. Mr. Cutler received a B. Arch from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with his class’ highest academic record.

Chris Czichos, Architectural Project Coordinator, Nine Sixty Nine Development
Chris Czichos is the Architectural Project Coordinator for the Nine Sixty Nine Development. His current projects involve building sustainable communities in the Austin such as Agave and the five star Fiore development. Chris has worked in Austin as a designer for firms such as KRDB, QMET and Page Southland Page. Having studied foreign service and environmental studies at Baylor University, architecture at the University of Texas, Austin and serving as a United States Peace Corp Volunteer in Mali, Chris Czichos’s diverse background has influenced and enhanced the quality of his work.

Ann B. Daigle, Arcade Projects South, Planning & Design
Ann Daigle is an urban design and community planning consultant specializing in the implementation of New Urbanist and Smart Growth principles. She serves as special advisor to the Mississippi Development Authority for the hurricane devastated Mississippi Gulf Coast, and currently lives in Pass Christian. Ann has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors, including as Urban Development Manager for the City of Ventura, CA. As co-founding principal (emeritus) of PlaceMakers, LLC, she initiated the SmartCode Workshops for the SmartCode, a comprehensive transect- and form-based unified land development code for traditional neighborhood planning. From Monroe, LA, Ann has degrees in interior design and architecture. She has been a CNU member for over 12 years, is a member of the new North Texas Chapter of the CNU, and is a contributing member of the New Urbanism Division of the APA and the Urban Land Institute.

James M. Daisa, Senior Project Manager, Kimley-Horn and Associates, inc.

Ward Davis, Developer, Ruskin Heights
Ward, along with partners Morgan Hooker and Dirk VanVeen, is a developer of Ruskin Heights, a DPZ designed TND in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Prior to Ruskin Heights, Ward was the acquisitions manager for a public REIT and a corporate finance investment banker. Ward has an MBA from the University of Virginia as well as degrees from Davidson College and The London School of Economics and Political Science.

David Day, Senior Project Manager, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists,

Bill Dennis, B. Dennnis Town and Building Design

Gabriel Diaz , Architect and Landscape Architect, Labor Studio, and Assistant Professor, , Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Rachel DiResto, Executive Vice President, Center for Planning Excellence

Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince's Foundation
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 teach and demonstrate in practice those principles of traditional urban design and architecture that put people and the communities of which they are a part at the heart of the design process. 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.

Fred Dock, Director, Dept of Transportation, City of Pasadena, Calif.
Mr. Dock is a traffic engineer and transportation planner with 30 years of experience. He is currently Executive Director of the Department of Transportation for the City of Pasadena, California. His experience includes leading the urban street design initiative for CNU and developing a national award-winning form-based street design code. He is one of the authors of the ITE Recommended Practice for Urban Streets, Sustainable Urbanism, and Developing Around Transit.

Bruce Donnelly

Victor Dover, Principal , Dover Kohl & Partners
Victor Dover serves as principal-in-charge for many of the firm's design and planning projects, and is responsible for most presentations. He has led more than 60 charrettes. Victor lectures widely around the nation on the topics of livable communities and sustainable development. PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Dover, Kohl & Partners Town Planning, So. Miami FL, 1987 to present. Certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners Member, American Planning Association Charter Member, Congress for the New Urbanism NCARB Architecture Registration Examination: all portions complete Image Transformation Lab, University of Miami, Proj. Director, 1987 Mavromatidis & Assoc., Kozani, Greece, Associate & Designer, 1986. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Exhibition Designer, 1985. DEGREES University of Miami, Master of Architecture, Suburb & Town Design. Virginia Tech, Bachelor of Architecture, magna cum laude. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Visiting Professor, Graduate Program in Suburb & Town Design, School of Architecture, Univ. of Miami, 1997. Mayors Institute on City Design, Washington University, St. Louis MO, 1995 & 1997. Adjunct Instructor, School of Architecture, Univ. of Miami, 1990-91. Instructor, 1st Year Architecture Studio, Univ. of Miami, 1986. Project Director, Florida Governor's School for Architecture & Design, 1986. Faculty, 1986 and 1991. SERVICE Director, Biscayne Bay Foundation, 1997-99. President, Rotary Club of South Miami, 1996-97. Director, Rotary Club of South Miami, 1994-1999. Assistant Governor, Group III, Rotary District 6990, 1998-99. Co-Chair, Administrative Council, First United Methodist Church of South Miami, 1997-99. Director, Jubilee Community Development Corp. (rep. Miami District, United Methodist Church), 1994-96. Former member, Professional Design Advisory Board, Fairchild Tropical Garden. Board of Advisors, CBD (Communities by Design). COMPETITIONS, AWARDS Citation, Progressive Architecture Awards, Urban Design, 1993. "Top 5" prize, Brickell Ave Bridge Competition, 1990; with Raul and Maricé Chael. Honor Award, Virginia Society Prize, AIA, 1984. EXHIBITIONS "L'Altra Modernita (The Other Modern)", Univ. of Bologna, 2000 "The Art of Building Cities," Art Institute of

Andres Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Andres Duany along with his Partner Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, has been a founding partner of two very influential architecture firms: Arquitectonica and Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. With the latter firm, he has than 140 new towns, inner city neighborhoods and urban cores. He has co-authored The Lexicon of the New Urbanism, Suburban Nation, The New Civic Art and The Smartcode Manual. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, and has been visiting professor at many other iniversities. He has received the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal, the Dreihaus Prize and two honorary doctorates.

Eric Dumbaugh, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Eric Dumbaugh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech, joint Master's degrees in Civil Engineering and City Planning, as well as a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. His ongoing research examines strategies for integrating mobility, traffic safety, and community livability into a holistic, context-based approach to roadway and community design.

Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Architecture Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ellen Dunham-Jones 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 35 articles and several chapters in books. Her research links contemporary architectural theory and post-industrial development. An advocate for alternatives to sprawl, her current focus is 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, chairs the Atlanta ULI Education 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).

Beth Dunlop, Editor-In-Chief, HOME Miami

Geoff Dyer, Director of Canadian Operations, PlaceMakers, LLC; Principal and Urban Designer, T-Six
Geoff Dyer is a senior urban designer and principal for Calgary-based T-Six Urbanists Inc., and a partner and director with U.S.-based Placemakers LLC. Geoff has gained considerable international experience with some of North America's foremost urban design firms and world renowned urban designers. He undertakes progressive planning and form-based codes projects throughout North America using the Transect-based SmartCode regulatory system. Geoff holds a Master in Urban Design from the University of Calgary, is a Knight Fellow in Community Building from the University of Miami, and was a CNU Charter Award recipient in 2005.

Sue Edwards, Director of Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services , City of Austin

Michael M. English, Vice President, Corporate leader, Regional & Community Planning, WilsonMiller
Based in Tampa, Florida, Michael English is a Principal and Vice President of WilsonMiller, a leading, Florida-based multidisciplinary design firm; and leads the company’s community and regional planning business practice. Mr. English is one of the Tampa Bay area's leading authorities on urban redevelopment and transit development and is well known for a career- long commitment to urban design and historic preservation. He served on the Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission for 11 years, serving as chairman five times. The agency is responsible for long range comprehensive planning for Hillsborough County and its three cities - Tampa, Temple Terrace and Plant City. A certified planner with more than 25 years of professional urban planning experience, his credentials include broad experience in urban redevelopment, mixed-use entitlement and historic preservation project management, along with an extensive background in transit planning and sustainable growth policy planning. Mr. English's expertise includes neighborhood and community planning, real estate development, public policy-related government relations and public involvement in the planning and development process. His work spans both the public and private sector throughout the State of Florida. Mr. English has written community redevelopment area (CRA) plans for numerous CRA districts in Florida and served as project director for the award-winning Strategic Action Plan for Tampa’s Channel District; a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, implementation strategic plan. His other local accomplishments include writing both of the community redevelopment area plans for Ybor City, Tampa’s National Landmark Historic District and world famous entertainment district, and managing the award-winning effort to develop an urban redevelopment master plan and streetscape concepts for the "Florida Front Porch" program on behalf of The Heart of East Tampa plan. Mr. English plays an active role in the life of the Tampa Bay community, serving on the Board of Directors, and Transportation Committee, of the Tampa Downtown Partnership and representing WilsonMiller at the Tampa Bay Partnership, the organization spearheading the region’s most recent efforts at developing a regional approach to multimodal transportation. He has helped shape Tampa's future through his past service on numerous community and civic boards of directors including the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization, Tampa & Ybor City Street Railway Society, Tampa Union Station Preservation & Restoration, Inc. and others. He currently serves as a member of the Board and Vice-President of Tampa Historic Streetcar, Inc, the not-for-profit organization charged with overseeing the operating and capital budgets, and operations, of the TECOLine Streetcar System, the community’s 2.5 mile rail transit system that traverses the City’s urban center. Mr. English earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business (finance) at Florida State University and a Master of Arts in Applied Urban Anthropology from the

Philip Erickson, AIA, President, Community Design + Architecture
Philip Erickson, AIA is an architect, urban designer, and planner with over 20 years of experience in the integration land use and transportation patterns, neighborhood and community planning, and economic and social sustainability. The scale of his work, throughout the United States, ranges from definition of region to the detail of place-making. Phil’s experience has focused on the design of neighborhood-scale, transit-oriented, mixed-use development working with private development interests, agency staff, local elected-officials, and local citizens in designing plans that create vital mixed-use neighborhoods and multi-modal corridors. Consensus building and brokering of agreements between various parties is always integral to this work. He was the lead urban design contributor to the recently published ITE Proposed Recommended Practice – Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities. Phil founded CD+A in 1997 and the firm has received national recognition for their Station Area Planning and TOD policy work in the Phoenix region and their Pedestrian Design Guidelines for the San Diego region. Phil is a licensed architect in California with Masters Degrees in City and Regional Planning and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the Vice President President-elect of the AIA East Bay Chapter and is also a member of the following organizations: the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Urban Land Institute, the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (Advisory Council Member), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.

Doug Farr, President and Founding Principal, Farr Associates Architecture & Urban Design
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 create sustainable human environments, Farr's niche is in applying the principles of LEED 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 three LEED- Platinum buildings: Christy Webber Landscapes, 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 the New Urbanism and also chairs the LEED Neighborhood Development project (LEED-ND), a first ever leadership standard for sustainable land developments, currently in its pilot phase. Having worked for Davis- Brody and Paul Rudolph in New York and John Vinci and Perkins and Will in Chicago, Farr's own work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Doug has also found time to write a book: Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature, a book that visualizes Sustainable Urbanism—the growing sustainable design convergence that integrates walkable and transit-served urbanism with high-performance infrastructure and buildings—as the normal pattern of development in the United States by 2030.

Geoffrey Ferrell, Ferrell Madden Associates LLC

Robert Fishman, Professor and Author, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia
Robert Fishman Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning Professor Fishman teaches in the urban design, architecture, and urban planning programs. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. He is a nationally recognized expert in the areas of urban history and urban policy and planning. He has authored several books regarded as seminal texts, on the history of cities and urbanism including Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) and Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier (1977). His most recent work is on "ex-urbs."

Pliny Fisk, III, Director, Center For Maximum Potential Building Systems
Pliny Fisk co-founded the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems in 1975, and currently serves as Co-Director. In addition, Pliny also serves as Fellow in Sustainable Urbanism and Fellow in Health Systems Design at Texas A & M University where he holds a joint position as signature faculty in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the U.S. Green Building Council1s first Sacred Tree Award in the public sector category, the Passive Solar Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Society, the Herrin Distinguished Fellow from Mississippi State University, the Presidential Team Award for the sustainable relocation of towns displaced by the Mississippi Flood, and the National Center for Appropriate Technology1s 15th Year Distinguished Appropriate Technology Award. Pliny received B.Arch., M.Arch., and M.L.Arch. Degrees from the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Freedman, Principal, Freedman, Tung & Bottomley

Toby Futrell

Thomas M. Gallas, CPA, LEED AP , Executive Vice President , Torti Gallas and Partners, Inc.

Norman Garrick, Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Connecticut
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.

Michael Garrison, Professor, School of Architecture, University of Austin

William Geitema, Jr., Arcadia Realty Corp.
AREA OF EXPERTISE: Development of Mixed-Use Master Planned Communities BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE: Since its inception in 1990, Arcadia has developed more than twenty residential and mixed-use communities in DFW, Austin, and San Antonio. These projects have spanned the development spectrum from greenfield to infill and greyfield. Bill is responsible for the company’s entitlements, land planning and development operations. He holds a master’s degree in Real Estate Development from the MIT Center for Real Estate. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bill is interested in creating a geographically weighted opinion/preference mapping system for project design and zoning. This will be an evolutionary continuation of a data collection system he has successfully used in the past to formulate community design guidelines and pricing strategies. The potential uses of the system include: pre-charrette issue targeting; stakeholder weighting; design and feature preferencing; willingness-to-pay modeling; and “latent demand modeling” to supplement conventional market studies.

Bob Gibbs, President, Gibbs Planning Group
Nationally recognized, Robert Gibbs is considered a leading urban planning consultant by some of the most respected mayors, architects and shopping center developers in America . Profiled in the Atlantic Monthly, Consumers Reports, New York Times, Urban Land Institute, and The Wall Street Journal, Gibbs is said to have “an urban planning sensibility unlike anything possessed by the urban planners who usually design downtown renewal efforts”. Charleston 's Mayor Joseph P. Riley describes Gibbs's work as “the Bible for the future of our historic district”. During the past twenty years, Gibbs has been active in developing innovative yet practical methods for applying current trends in residential and commercial development to more than 300 town centers and historic cities across North America, the Pacific Rim and Caribbean . Gibbs has been consulted on almost every new American town center constructed during the past 15 years and has taught an executive Urban Retail Planning session at Harvard's School of Architecture for the past 12 years. Gibbs has consulted for the cities of: Atlanta , Cambridge , Charleston , Chicago , Dallas , Denver , Miami , Naples , Portland and Seattle . Gibbs has also consulted with many new urban towns including: Alys Beach , Kentlands, Rosemary Beach and Seaside . A speaker at the First Congress of the New Urbanism in 1992 and six other CNU's, Mr. Gibbs has been a pioneer and leader in this movement to revive the community- oriented principles of traditional Town Planning and Smart Growth as an antidote to the alienating, formless sprawl of suburbia. Leading clients have included: Calthorpe Associates, Charleston , Cambridge , Chicago , Domino's Farms, Duany Plater-Zyberk, Kentlands, Electronic Data Systems, General Motors, Simon Properties, the States of Florida and Oregon and The Taubman Company. Before establishing GPG, Gibbs spent a dozen years gaining invaluable expertise in retail planning by advising strip-center and shopping mall developers on the psychology of commerce – the practical science of analyzing and adjusting all elements known to affect a shopper's mood in the marketplace. From this experience. Gibbs distilled many retail and merchandising principles for reviving retail in moribund downtowns and for instilling successful commerce in new ones. The purpose of these prescriptions is not to turn existing or planned main streets into malls, but to give merchants on the street the same competitive advantage that those in the most profitable shopping centers enjoy. Mr. Gibbs and his wife Elizabeth have been married for 25 years and have two active teenage boys. The family resides in Birmingham , Michigan , a 19 th century model for the new urbanism. Gibbs is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a charter member of the Congress for New Urbanism and has a Masters degree from the University of Michigan.

Lucinda Gibson, Principal, Smart Mobility, Inc.

Raymond L. Gindroz, Co-founder and Principal, Urban Design Associates
Raymond L. Gindroz, a co-founder and principal emeritus of Urban Design Associates, has pioneered the development of participatory planning processes for neighborhoods, downtowns and regional plans. An internationally recognized advocate and veteran practitioner of “architecture as city-building,” Ray leads UDA’s efforts to revitalize cities by transforming inner city neighborhoods and public housing projects into traditional mixed-income neighborhoods and by working with downtowns to attract new development including residential, commercial and civic uses. Ray also initiated the revival and application of Pattern Books in neighborhood building. Ray is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a past chair of the Committee on Design. He was chair of the Inner City Task Force of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and is currently a member of its board of directors. He is also chair of the board of the Seaside Institute, a co-founder of the Seaside Pienza Institute, a member of the board of the Institute for Classical Architecture/Classical American, the advisory board of the Charles Moore Foundation, the Center for Urban Redevelopment Excellence, and the Western European Foundation. Recently, Ray was awarded the Seaside Prize for Innovation and Revitalizing Inner City Neighborhoods and Transforming Public Housing Projects into Mixed Income Neighborhoods. For more than 20 years, he taught urban design at the Yale University School of Architecture. An engaging, popular speaker in both the U.S. and Europe, Ray has also published prolifically throughout his career, most recently as a principal author of The Urban Design Handbook and The Architectural Pattern Book (both published by W. W. Norton & Company). Ray earned Bachelor and Master of Architecture degrees with honors from Carnegie Mellon University and a Diploma from Centro per gli Studi di Architettura, A. Palladio, Vicenza, Italy. He received the John Stewardson Award and a Fulbright Grant for study in Italy early in his career and continues to travel extensively to sketch and study urban space. His drawings have been exhibited in the U.S., France, and Italy. His drawings and writings are published annually in a series of books entitled “Pages from a Sketchbook.”

Cecilia Giusti, Assistant Professor , Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning; College of Architecture - Texas A&M University

Doris Goldstein, Law Office of Doris S. Goldstein
Doris S. Goldstein is an attorney whose solo practice focuses on New Urban development. In 1986, she began working with the developer of Seaside and has been actively involved in the creation of its homeowner associations, town center and mixed-use buildings. Through her ongoing experience with that community and dozens of others, she has worked to define the legal issues and best practices for New Urbanist development. Goldstein, who started her career as a journalist before entering Harvard Law School, writes and lectures frequently and has developed materials that help other attorneys write documents for traditional neighborhood developments. See www.NewTownLaw.com for more information

Juan Gomez-Novy, Associate, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists
Juan Gomez-Novy is an associate with Moule & Polyzoides, Architects and Urbanists, and holds a Master of Architecture and Urban Planning degree from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Gomez-Novy has over ten years’ experience in both architecture and urban planning, having worked on a wide variety of projects including greenfield developments, urban infill, and civic and institutional projects. He is currently managing specific plans – both greenfield and urban regeneration – in Ventura, Santa Clarita and Paso Robles, California that range from 40 to 1,000 acres in size. Mr. Gomez-Novy’s previous planning experience includes the Downtown Ventura Specific Plan and Streetscape projects and his architectural experience includes numerous housing and institutional buildings. An ardent researcher on traditional urbanism, he was a member of a University of Texas at Austin research team that measured and documented sixteenth-century churches, atrios, and plazas of ten towns outside Mexico City. Mr. Gomez-Novy recently co-wrote an article with Stefanos Polyzoides for the Journal of the Southwest chronicling the urban deterioration of Tucson’s historic core.

Moises Gonzales, Loeb Fellow, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Moises Gonzales is a planner who works in Sandoval County just to the north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. He grew up in La Merced to Canon De Carnue, one of the many land grant communities (ejidos) of New Mexico. Moises spent the early part of his career dealing with rural issues and the preservation of cultural amenities and traditions in his and similar small settlements with strong ethnic connections to the earliest history of the state. More recently, he has been focusing on urban planning issues, out of the conviction that if the city of Albuquerque becomes a more vibrant and exciting place, fewer people will want to flee to the sprawling suburbs.

Alexander Gorlin, Principal, Alexander Gorlin Architects
Alexander Gorlin studied at The Cooper Union School of Architecture before receiving a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He opened his practice in 1986 after returning from a Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Gorlin has since created an internationally recognized firm that is distinguished by its commitment to applying Modernist design principles to projects across the social spectrum. Alexander Gorlin Architects currently works with private clients, developers, community organizations, religious congregations and schools throughout the country. The firm has received numerous accolades including two American Design Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum and four Design Excellence Awards from the American Institute of Architects. Architectural Digest magazine has named the firm to its AD100 list of leading designers for each of the past four years Gorlin is a respected architectural critic and scholar. He is the author of two books on contemporary architecture, The New American Town House and Creating the New American Town House, and has written extensively for periodicals such as Architectural Record, Metropolis, and Architectural Digest. Gorlin is the subject of an architectural monograph, Alexander Gorlin: Buildings and Projects, with essays by Vincent Scully and Paul Goldberger. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2005.

Jane Grabowski-Miller, Design Director, Middleton Hills, Erdman Holdings, Inc
Jane Grabowski-Miller is the Project Director/Design Director for Middleton Hills, one of the earliest TND projects master planned by DPZ. Ms. Grabowski-Miller has been responsible for implementation of the project from entitlements to design review as the town architect. In her role, she has overseen the dramatic evolution of the retail concept of one of the first TND’s to be built in the country. In addition, she has over 10 years of experience managing the community as a member of the Middleton Hills Neighborhood Association Board of Directors. Ms. Grabowski-Miller was a contributing editor to the book Safescape: Creating Safer, More Livable Communities Through Planning and Design which featured Middleton Hills as a prominent example of a New Urbanist community.

Chickie Grayson, President & CEO , Enterprise Homes, Inc.

Ellen Greenberg, AICP, Principal, Greenberg Consulting
Ellen Greenberg is a city planner working at the complex intersection of land use, transportation, and urban design. Her ability to solve problems that cross boundaries between both professional disciplines and governmental agencies have made her a highly-regarded leader of planning projects, policy studies and research. She is an authority on new techniques in emerging practice areas including zoning reform, arterial corridor design, and transit-oriented development. Ellen Greenberg received the degrees of Master of City Planning and Master of Science in Transportation Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography. Ms. Greenberg is the former Director of Policy and Research for the Congress for the New Urbanism.

David Greusel, Principal, HOK Sport Venue Event
Mr. Greusel is a Principal with HOK Sport Venue Event, the world leader in public assembly architecture. David was the lead designer for Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros, and PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates. As a design professional, Mr. Greusel has nearly 30 years of experience in every major role in architectural practice, including management, marketing, design, and technical aspects of projects. His work has been published in both trade and professional journals, and has received design recognition at the local and regional level. As a speaker, has presented or co-presented at more than 80 regional, national and international conferences in the past ten years. In addition to his professional credentials, David has over 30 years’ experience in the performing arts, including the stage, television and radio. For the past 18 years, he has been an actor and writer for Right Between the Ears, (and its predecessor, The Imagination Workshop) a radio comedy program that has won numerous national and international awards. His first professional book, Architect’s Essentials of Presentation Skills, is available from Wiley.

Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy, Transportation and Community Developmen, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Jacquelyne D. Grimshaw works with the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago where she directs the Center's transportation,air quality *and community development* programs and is responsible for the center's research* in these areas. She developed the Center's capacity to conduct *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 *Treasurer* of City of Chicago and directed the Chicago Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. She was a member of the President's Council for Sustainable Development's Energy and Transportation Task Force and the Advisory Board of the Surface Transportation Policy Project. Grimshaw holds a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and completed graduate studies in Public Policy at Governors State University.

Kenneth J. Groves, AICP, Director, Planning & Development, City of Montgomery, Alabama

Rick Gustafson, Vice President, Shiels Obletz Johnsen, CEO, Portland Streetcar Inc.
Rick Gustafson is the CEO of the nonprofit Portland Streetcar Inc. and is also vice president of Shiels Obletz Johnsen, a project management firm with offices in Portland and Seattle. Previously he was Portland Metro’s first elected executive officer, a post he held until 1986, and he also served in the Oregon House of Representatives.

Charlie Hales, Planner and Project Manager, HDR Inc.
Charlie Hales is a planner and project manager for HDR, Inc., where he’s led their streetcar practice since 2002. Previously he was Commissioner of Planning and Transportation for the City of Portland. He was on the team that built the Portland streetcar, he helped organize the Community Streetcar Coalition, and he is working on more than a dozen streetcar projects nationwide.

Laura Hall, Principal, Hall Alminana Inc.
Laura Hall is a founding principal of Hall Alminana Inc., a consulting firm in San Francisco devoted to providing participatory planning, coding and design services to communities. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Hall has a strong background and practice in the social and cultural aspects of community design. Her humanistic approach to planning ensures that community processes are kind and equitable. Ms. Hall helped craft the first adopted SmartCode in the nation, in Petaluma, California, and she has worked extensively with the hurricane-damaged communities of Pass Christian and Gulfport on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Richard Hall, PE, President, Hall Planning & Engineering Inc.

Kevin Hardman, Vice President of Development, Kimball Hill Urban Centers

Matthew Hardy, Secretary, International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism
Dr Matthew Hardy RAIA is Secretary of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU). He has lectured and published widely in support of INTBAU, and has taught widely on both course work and summer programmes and as a Visiting Professor with the University of Notre Dame. He has also maintained a practice in architecture and urban design since registering in South Australia in 1983. Dr Hardy holds a PhD in Architectural History from the University of Wales and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Adelaide and is an Alumnus of The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture.

Jim Heid, President and Founder, UrbanGreen
Jim Heid is a real estate developer, advisor and author whose focus is the creation of new communities that provide a positive contribution to their environment, region, and residents. In 2000, he founded UrbanGreen to act as development partner and advisor to legacy landowners, institutions, and land development companies that embrace principles of sustainability. With over twenty years experience in the design and development of new community, urban infill, and resort developments, Jim is known to effectively resolve the complex layers of community design and development using a variety of proven tools and best practices. He is motivated by the need to deliver high quality developments to a broader market – in an increasingly complex world of entitlements and financing – without compromising environmental, economic or placemaking objectives.

Susan Henderson, Director of Design, PlaceMakers LLC
As a practicing architect, urbanist and published writer, Susan combines a wealth of practical experience with effective communication skills to lead and inspire PlaceMakers' charrette teams. She was selected as the Architectural Team Leader for the Mississippi Renewal Forum after Hurricane Katrina. Susan is project principal for numerous PlaceMakers SmartCode calibrations including Taos, New Mexico, Early County, Georgia, Lawrence, Kansas and Dreihaus Form- Based Codes award winner, Leander, Texas. PlaceMakers presents the biannual SmartCode Workshop with Andres Duany.

Jennifer Henry, LEED-ND Program Manager, U.S. Green Building Council
Jennifer Henry and a coalition of the nation’s leading progressive design professionals, builders, developers, and environmentalists are working on a national rating and certification system for neighborhood development. Utilizing the framework of the existing LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Green Building Rating System, this system will be known as LEED for Neighborhood Developments, or LEED-ND. The system will rate developments’ impact on the environment and community, and will include criteria regarding, density, proximity to transit, mixed use, mixed housing type, and pedestrian- and bicycle- friendly design. Jennifer holds a Masters of Urban Planning from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked with the Natural Resources Defense Council on legislation for New Jersey that would establish a tax credit for smart growth developments, and has also worked with the Trust for Public Land and Madison Metro Bus Transit. She is now based at the U.S. Green Building Council, which administers the LEED family of rating systems, in Washington, D.C.

James Hill, AIA, AICP, Principal, Civic Design Associates
Mr. Hill is the managing principal of Civic Design Associates, an urban planning and architecture firm in Houston. His firm engages in a wide range of community master plans, TND plans and pattern books, and urban infill architecture, although he considers the firm’s specialty to be the complex, multivalent problems of large scale urban redevelopment and its regulation. Mr. Hill is a graduate engineer, architect, and planner, which together with growing up in Europe and living in unzoned Houston, lends a broad and multi-disciplinary perspective to his work.

Matt Hollon, Environmental & Conservation Program Manager, Watershed Protection & Development Review Department, City of Austin
Matt Hollon is an environmental planner with the City of Austin’s Watershed Protection & Development Review Department. He has a BA from Austin College and an MS in Community & Regional Planning from the University of Texas. He has worked in watershed planning in both the private and public sectors since 1990. His projects have ranged from development of water quality regulations to national stormwater structural control design and maintenance, to complex, large-scaled watershed management and restoration projects. He helped spearhead the City of Austin’s groundbreaking Watersheds Master Plan. His work has featured the multidisciplinary integration of a wide range of progressive and technical environmental solutions with urban planning, design, and public policy.

Ron Hubert, Managing Director, Hozho International LLC

Laura J. Huffman, Assistant City Manager, City of Austin
Laura Huffman is an Assistant City Manager for the City of Austin. Her current responsibilities include the Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services, Neighborhood Planning and Zoning, and Watershed Protection and Development Review departments. She graduated with a B.S. in Political Science from A&M and received a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin.

Jennifer Hurley, President, Hurley-Franks & Associates

Aseem Inam, Senior Project Manager, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists
Dr. Aseem Inam is a Senior Project Manager and Urban Designer at Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists in Pasadena, California. Aseem is currently the manager for the design of a 3,000-acre master plan for the City of Sunland Park, New Mexico on the U.S.-Mexico border. The 3,000-acre project includes a new international border crossing facility, ecological preservation and enhancement of the Rio Grande River and surrounding habitat, a new downtown district including an entertainment corridor, and retail and residential development, including affordable housing. He also manages the Uptown Whittier Specific Plan, which focuses on the revitalization of the historic retail core of Whittier, California. He also managed the Taylor Crossing Master Plan, a new 80-acre mixed-use district on the banks of the Snake River near downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho. In all these projects, Aseem was responsible for coordinating the work of a multidisciplinary team of consultants, including design and planning professionals, ecologists, economists, retail consultants, and transportation planners. Prior to Moule & Polyzoides, Aseem was a professor of urban design and planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he received the Outstanding Faculty Award a record three times. He taught graduate seminars and studios in housing, urban design, physical planning, and international development. He has been invited to speak at the University of Washington, University of California at Los Angeles, Woodbury University, University of Southern California, University of Cincinnati, Roger Williams College, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. His book, Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities, is a comparative analysis of successful planning and rebuilding after disasters in Mexico and the United States. Prior to that, Aseem was the founding Architect-in-Charge of the Rural Habitat Development Program in the villages of the Gujarat region of India, where he and his team designed a school kitchen, day care center, and housing prototypes. He also served as a Consultant to the architecture and planning firm of Stein, Doshi, and Bhalla for their design of India Habitat Center, an innovative office complex designed around landscaped courtyards, public spaces, and art exhibits in New Delhi. He also worked as an urban designer for the City of St. Louis on a boulevard plan and the Washington Avenue revitalization plan. He has been a Team Leader for several design charrettes to help revitalize inner-city neighborhoods in Detroit. In 2005, he was the Design Director for a regional development plan for the islands of Santorini, Greece in the south Aegean Sea.

Lisa Israelovitch, Director of Planning, Live Work Learn Play LLP
As the Director of Planning at Live Work Learn Play, Lisa leads the planning of commercial mixed-use projects. She focuses on the strategic, economic, and experiential planning, providing developers, cities, and other client stakeholders with an executable commercial master plan to develop vibrant and sustainable mixed-use neighborhoods that are the center of their developments. Some of the recent projects that Lisa has helped to plan include the Downtown Boca Raton Master Plan in Florida, the Newburgh Waterfront in New York, Storrs Center at the University of Connecticut, and East Garrison at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California. Additionally, Lisa is currently assisting in the commercial planning of the Town Center at Mueller in Austin Texas.

Allan Jacobs, Professor Emeritus of City & Regional Planning and Urban Design, University of California Berkeley College of Environmental Design; Principal, Cityworks
As director of the City Planning Commission of San Francisco, Allan Jacobs pioneered the integration of urban design and local government planning, producing a plan that has given San Francisco some of its best places and, two decades later, still stands as a model of its kind. His book, Making City Planning Work, is a telling and accessible account of what it takes to change American Cities, published in 1985. His book, Great Streets, is a text that has become widely revered and is used universally by students and practitioners. It has had an extraordinary influence on city design providing lucid examples and realizable principles about the making of public space. ... Jacobs' most recent book, The Boulevard Book, with Elizabeth Macdonald and Yodan Rofe, is becoming more and more used as a model for new boulevards and has resulted in a number of projects in stages of completion or design. Allan Jacob’s rich blend of research, teaching, and practice, his humanity, and his dedication to public purposes, is very much in the spirit of the ideals and spirit which Kevin Lynch fostered. He is a recipient of the Kevin Lynch Award. Jacobs holds a Bachelor of Architecture cum laude from Miami University, and a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was a Fulbright Scholar in City Planning at University College London. He has won a number of honors and awards, including the AIA Excellence in Education Award, California Chapter, 1994; a Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, 1986; Resident in Architecture, American Academy in Rome, 1996; and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982.

Keith Jones, Regional Transit Planning Manager, URS Corporation

Liana Kallivoka, PhD, Project Manager, Austin Energy Green Building Program

Peter Katz, President, , Form-Based Codes Institute

Doug Kelbaugh, FAIA, Dean of the Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Douglas S. Kelbaugh FAIA, Dean of the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, received a B.A. Magna Cum Laude and M.Arch from Princeton University. From 1977 to 1985 he was principal in Kelbaugh+Lee, which won 15 design awards and competitions. He then served as Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he was principal in Kelbaugh, Calthorpe and Associates. He was editor of The Pedestrian Pocket Book and author of Common Place: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, and Repairing the American Metropolis: Beyond Common Place.

Katharine Kelley, President and CEO, Green Street Properties
Katharine Kelley is President and CEO of Green Street Properties and leads the company's real estate development operations and new business pursuits. Green Street Properties develops urban properties into master planned, mixed use developments which are walkable and environmentally sustainable, including its highly acclaimed Glenwood Park development in Atlanta. Katharine has led the development of over $600 million of properties during more than 16 years of experience in the real estate development business. Prior to Green Street, Katharine was Senior Vice President and one of three regional development officers at Post Properties, where she managed the development of 12 multifamily and mixed use properties, comprising a total of over 4,000 multifamily units. In particular, she led the team that developed the flagship, $120 million Riverside by Post mixed use development, which gained national recognition for new urbanist product innovation. Prior to Post, Katharine worked with The Landmarks Group, where she developed and marketed 135,000 square feet of retail space for the $600 million Promenade mixed use development in Midtown Atlanta. Immediately preceding Green Street, she honed her entrepreneurial skills as a Co-founder and President of internet company Blue Rock Avenue, located in Atlanta and New York. Katharine is an Atlanta native and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, and 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, the Finance Committee of The Westminster Schools, the UNC Johnston Honors Advisory Board, and the Board of the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Glenn Kellogg, UrbanAdvisors Ltd

Patrick Kelly, Designer, Habersham Land Company
Patrick Kelly, part of the implementation team for Habersham in Beaufort, SC, has extensive experience in town planning and traditional neighborhood development with a focus on the Light Imprint Initiative. Patrick is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Marina Khoury, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Marina Khoury is an expert in traditional neighborhood development and form-based codes and speaks on issues related to creating affordable, sustainable, walkable communities. A licensed architect, she is the director of town planning at the firm of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) and leads the Washington D.C. office. Khoury manages new town plans and urban redevelopment plans in the United States, Canada and Europe. She is also the DPZ project director for Miami 21, an initiative which is rewriting the City of Miami's current zoning code into the largest-known application of a form-based code. DPZ is widely recognized as a leader in the international movement called New Urbanism, which advocates urbanism that is economically sustainable, socially responsible, and environmentally sensitive. The firm has designed more than 300 communities around the world, including downtown revitalizations, greenfield new towns, brownfield redevelopments, and urban infill sites. Khoury holds two masters degrees, in architecture and urban planning, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Khoury also attended the “Ecole Speciale D'Architecture” in Paris, France. She joined DPZ in 1997. Prior to that, she worked as an architectural designer for the firm of Portuondo Perotti Architects in Coral Gables, Fla. Khoury lived in Florida until 2007 and served in a number of community leadership positions including active support of the Buena Vista East Historic Neighborhood Association. She became the first female architect appointed to the City of Miami's Urban Development Review Board in 2001. She taught as an Adjunct Professor at the Design and Architecture High School (DASH) for six years and has been a member of their Advisory Board for the past six. She is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, the American Institute of Architects and a member of the New Urban Guild. Khoury is also a LEED Accredited professional. Contact info:

Kevin Klinkenberg, Principal, 180 Degrees Design Studio
Kevin Klinkenberg has dedicated his career to the building of great places. A Fellow with the Knight Program in Community Building through the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1997, he seeks practical applications for TND techniques in projects of all scales, from individual sites to neighborhoods to entire regions. With 15 years of professional experience, including participation on charrettes with many of the founders of the CNU, Mr. Klinkenberg has become a regional authority on planning and urban design, sitting on committees for the Mid America Regional Council, the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City,and the Housing Choices Coalition. He is a frequent speaker on urban design, and in 2003 wrote a column for the Kansas City Star under "Midwest Voices". His volunteer activities include serving on the board of CUBE (Center for Understanding the Built Environment), AIA/Kansas City and the Urban Society of Kansas City. Kevin is also involved with setting new standards for context-sensitive transportation policy through the CNU and is working with several national colleagues on the formation of XNU – the next stage in the development of New Urbanism.

Charlie Knox, Community Development Director

Lauren Koutrelakos, Designer, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

Thomas Kronemeyer, Senior Associate, Community Design + Architecture
Thomas Kronemeyer is a Senior Associate with the Oakland based urban design and planning firm Community Design + Architecture (CD+A). His experience includes a broad variety of planning and design projects for multi-modal transportation corridors, transit facilities, and walkable communities. His work focuses on the successful integration of urban design, land use, and transportation planning with an emphasis on pedestrian- and transit-oriented design. Mr. Kronemeyer holds Master Degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in City Planning and Landscape Architecture.

Mike Krusee, Texas House of Representatives
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.

Jim Kumon, Designer, Miralles Associates
Jim Kumon is a Designer at Miralles Associates in Pasadena, CA, where he leads firm efforts in implementing Building Information Modeling and sustainable design practices. With a background in architecture, urban design, construction management and design/build development, he is pursuing new paradigms in delivering quality housing as the foundation of vibrant urban neighborhoods. He chairs the national steering committee for the Next Generation of New Urbanists, the AIA Pasadena Committee on the Environment and a special joint committee between young leaders of the Los Angeles chapters of the US Green Building Council and Urban Land Institute. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and graduate of the University of Michigan.

James Howard. Kunstler, Author
James Howard Kunstler says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere, "Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work." Home From Nowhere was a continuation of that discussion with an emphasis on the remedies. A portion of it appeared as the cover story in the September 1996 Atlantic Monthly. His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it's mutilated cities. His latest book, The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century." The Atlantic Monthly Press also published his novel, Maggie Darling, in 2004. Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues. Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State Univerity of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York

John Langmore, Co-Chair, CNU XVI Local Host Committee, John Langmore Consulting

Todd C. LaRue, Vice President , RCLCO Real Estate Advisors
Todd LaRue is a vice president with RCLCO, the nation’s leading independent real estate advisory and consulting firm. With his project team, he advises developers, investors and public sector clients on the application of market, financial and consumer research to clients’ particular needs. Since joining RCLCO, Mr. LaRue has managed and directed engagements for a variety of land uses in markets in the southeast, concentrating in Texas, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. His work has included consulting for numerous types of mixed- use developments, residential housing, retail, office, and industrial developments. Prior to joining RCLCO, Mr. LaRue’s professional career includes over seven years of experience in construction management with Beers Construction (now Skanska USA) in Atlanta, GA and W. H. Bass, Inc. in Norcross, GA. Much of his work was concentrated on managing construction projects in retail, banking, education, and telecommunication. In addition, he served as a construction manager for tenant improvement projects at Peachtree Center in downtown Atlanta. Mr. LaRue is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and brings strong analytical skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis to RCLCO with his civil engineering degree from the University of Virginia and Master in Business Administration degree in real estate and finance from Emory University.

Chris Leinberger, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer and author, helping to make progressive development profitable. He is a Professor of Practice and the Director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the University of Michigan. He is also a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, focusing on research and practices that helping transform traditional and suburban downtowns and other places that provide "walkable urbanity". In addition, he is a founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a progressive real estate development firm with projects in downtown Albuquerque, Independence, Missouri, Seaside, Florida, and five projects in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Chris has written award-winning articles for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Urban Land magazine, among others, and is the author or has contributed chapters to six books. He has been profiled by national broadcast and print media such as CNN, Today Show, National Public Radio, Progressive Architecture, among others. Chris is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Business School. His wife, Lisa, and he live in the DuPont Circle area of Washington, DC, within walking distance of both a Metro station and Brookings.

William Lennertz, Executive Director, National Charrette Institute
Bill Lennertz, AIA, is the NCI executive director and lead trainer. First as Director of the Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ) Boston office, and as a partner with Lennertz Coyle & Associates, Bill has directed over 150 charrettes. Bill is co-author of the Charrette Handbook published by the APA. He has trained top staff from various organizations including the US EPA, US General Services Administration, and Parsons Brinckerhoff. Bill co-founded NCI to help people create healthy communities by researching and teaching the art and science of dynamic planning. He received his Masters of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University.

Bill Lind, Free Congress Foundation

Ian Lockwood, Senior Transportation Engineer, Glatting Jackson, Kercher, Anglin, Inc.

Art Lomenick, Managing Director, Trammell Crow Company
Mr. Lomenick, a Managing Director with Trammell Crow Company and President of High Street Residential, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trammell Crow Company, is an expert sought after throughout the U.S. for his experience with urban development. He is a respected authority on neo-traditional planning and architecture, which emphasize pedestrian- oriented neighborhood design and adaptive re-use of existing buildings. Mr. Lomenick has been instrumental in enhancing and rebuilding neighborhoods in cities throughout the U.S. A long time student of urban design and planning, he combines these studies with his knowledge of human behavior, architecture and economics to create a unique skill set. Experience Mr. Lomenick's development experience spans the past 25 years over which time he has directed the initial redevelopment of numerous Uptown and Midtown communities throughout the U.S. A major success story in his career is the development of Uptown Dallas. In the past 20 years, Uptown has been transformed from a blighted area north of downtown Dallas into a thriving urban district of shops, residences, offices and engaging public spaces. He orchestrated the development of Addison Circle and Legacy Town Center, two-master planned, neo-traditional communities crafted in cooperation with the edge cities of Addison and Plano, Texas. Both master plans feature residential, retail, office, and civic venues, nestled around neighborhood streets and parks within steps of public transit. Addison Circle has been hailed by numerous associations and publications as a neighborhood that exemplifies smart growth. He has been instrumental in the adaptive re-use of historic office buildings, hospitals, hotels, and even a flourmill. Current Transit Oriented Development (TOD) work includes Midtown Commons in Austin Tx, Garland Station and Desoto Town Center in North Texas and Historic Westside Village in Atlanta Ga. Mr. Lomenick continues to effectively blend the art of new urban development with economic strategies to enhance and rebuild organic, pedestrian oriented neighborhoods. Education & Credentials Southern Methodist University, BBA, 1978, University of Florida, 1974-1976 Professional/ Community Involvement Reconnecting America - Board of Directors Center for Transit Oriented Development Congress for the New Urbanism - Past Board member - 6 yr term National Historic Preservation Society Visiting Nurses Association (VNA) - Past Board Member Arts District Association - Past Board Member ULI Council member

Gianni Longo, President, ACP Visioning & Planning
Mr. Longo is an architect and founding Principal of ACP. For the past two decades, he has pioneered visioning and strategic planning efforts in cities and regions. Mr. Longo conceived and developed Vision 2000, a community goal-setting process in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The first of its kind, Vision 2000 is credited with stimulating over a billion dollars in development projects in that community. Mr. Longo designed the creative public involvement strategies for Imagine New York: Giving Voice to the People's Visions, an APA award-winning effort to bring together people throughout the New York City region to share their ideas and vision for rebuilding downtown and memorializing the World Trade Center tragedy. The process involved 250 meetings where 4,000 participants generated 19,000 ideas. From these ideas, 49 visions were created for the site. In the Baltimore region, Mr. Longo conducted Vision 2030: Shaping the Region's Future Together, a project of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council to build consensus on a clear, consistent and realistic vision of the Baltimore region's future. Mr. Longo also has designed and facilitated visions and strategic plans for Metropolitan D.C., the Knoxville, Birmingham, and Kansas City regions, the cities of Houston and Myrtle Beach, Manatee County, Florida, and many others. Mr. Longo is the author of several books, including the "Learning from the USA" series that focuses on urban revitalization best practices in Baltimore, Seattle and Galveston. His latest book, "A Guide to Great American Public Places," is a survey of 60 successful public places in this country. Mr. Longo is a highly regarded public speaker and has made frequent presentations to groups that include: the American Planning Association, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Rail~Volution, the International Making Cities Livable Conference, and the Smart Growth Conference. Mr. Longo was the former chair of the Planners Task Force of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).

Kris Longson, Vice President of Development, General Growth Properties

Alan Loomis, Prinicpal Urban Desinger, City of Glendale
Alan Loomis is the Principal Urban Designer for the City of Glendale, California, where he is responsible for urban design policies, in addition to providing design advice to city departments and boards. He has over ten years experience in private urban design and architecture firms, directing planning projects for Pomona College, the University of California Santa Barbara, North Montclair, Azusa, and various other locations in California, New Mexico and New Jersey. He has teaches urban design at Woodbury University in Burbank and co-edited the book Los Angeles: Building the Polycentric Region, a survey of regional smart growth architecture and urbanism published for CNUXIII. He is on the Advisory Board of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design and is presently the co-chair of the Congress for New Urbanism’s regional chapter.

Thomas E. Low, AIA, LEED, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Tom Low is the Director of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company’s Charlotte, North Carolina office, which he opened in 1995. Tom received his Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, and gained ten years of experience in architectural practice in Charlotte after completing his degree. In 1989, disenchanted with the making of architectural form detached from the principles of urbanism, he enrolled in the University of Miami for a Master’s Degree in Architecture with a specialization in New Urbanism. As a student, he completed research grants on early twentieth-century town centers, and the “Traditional Neighborhood Development Ordinance,” a trademark of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. and a crucial element in the firm’s principles. Since that time, Tom has managed and completed over one hundred projects over almost two decades with DPZ winning awards from the American Institute of Architects, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Protection Agency for Smart Growth Achievement. Tom is actively involved with projects, research, and education throughout the Carolinas. Tom lectures on town planning, early twentieth-century planning history, sustainability and urbanism, and school design. He has taught at the University of Miami School of Architecture, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of North Carolina Charlotte School of Architecture, the College of Charleston, Clemson University, North Carolina State University, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Through grants he received from the John Nolen Foundation he has completed a symposium on John Nolen’s work in the southeast and a book on John Nolen’s planning techniques. He is currently in his fourth year as Chair for the Charlotte Region Civic by Design Forum, and has led forums on school design starting the Katrina Inspired Learning Cottage Initiative. In 2007, he also started the Light Imprint Initiative, developing a framework for environmentally-sensitive engineering techniques in line with New Urban community design principles.

Stephen Luoni, Director, University of Arkansas Community Design Center
Stephen Luoni is Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center (UACDC) where he is the Steven L. Anderson Chair in Architecture and Urban Studies. His design and research have won more than forty design awards, including two Progressive Architecture Awards, four American Institute of Architects Honors Awards, a Charter Award from the Congress for the New Urbanism, and two American Society of Landscape Architecture Awards, all for planning and urban design. His work at UACDC specializes in interdisciplinary public works projects combining landscape, urban, and architectural design. Current work includes design and planning for municipal infrastructure, residential communities, campuses, parks, and big box retail. His work has been published in Oz, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architect, Places, L’Architecture d’Aujourd’ hui, Progressive Planning, and Public Art Review. He previously taught at the University of Florida and was the 2000 Cass Gilbert Visiting Professor of Architecture at the University of Minnesota. In Fall 2006 he was the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor in Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. Luoni has a BS in Architecture from Ohio State University and a Master of Architecture from Yale University.

Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph. D. , Assistant Professor of City & Regional Planning and Urban Design, University of California Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph.D., is a Principal of Cityworks. She is also an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and a faculty member of the Program in the Design of Urban Places, an interdisciplinary program sponsored by UC Berkeley’s College of Environmental Design that offers a Master's of Urban Design Degree. Her writings include The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press 2002), The Urban Design Reader (Routledge, 2006), and numerous journal articles. Recent professional projects include redesigns for Octavia Boulevard in San Francisco, Pacific Boulevard in Vancouver, and International Boulevard in Oakland.

Alex MacLean, Author, Visualizing Density, Landslides Aerial Photography
Alex S. MacLean, a pilot and photographer with training in architecture, is principal of Landslides Aerial Photography in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has documented the history and evolution of the land and the changes brought by human intervention in numerous books, journals, and exhibitions.

Mary E. Madden, Ferrell Madden Associates

David Manfredi, Principal, Elkus/Manfredi Architects

Louis Marquet, Executive Vice President, LeylandAlliance LLC

Chad Marsh , Principal , Endeavor Real Estate Group
Chad Marsh is co-developer of the Domain, an 8 million square foot vertical mixed use development in North Austin. His responsibilities include entitlements, master planning, financing, vertical development, marketing, and general oversight. In 2004 and 2005, Chad managed the leasing and acquisition activities relative to the company's office and industrial portfolio. Prior to joining Endeavor, Chad was a Senior Vice President of Office and Industrial Development with Trammell Crow Company (TCC). He entitled, managed the design, financed, and/or developed four industrial and office projects. Prior to his development role, Chad's primary responsibility was leasing TCC's five million square foot industrial portfolio.

Stephen Marshall, Senior Lecturer, Bartlett School of Planning, University College London
Stephen Marshall is Senior Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He has eighteen years’ experience in urban and transport fields: five in consultancy and thirteen in academia. Having originally graduated in Civil Engineering, he subsequently gained a Masters degree in Transport Planning and Engineering, a Postgraduate Diploma in Urban Design, and a PhD in Planning Studies. He has worked on several street planning and design projects in practice, as well as UK and international research projects involving integrated transport, planning and urban design, including the European Commission projects TRANSPLUS, ARTISTS and PLUME; and the UK project SOLUTIONS (Sustainability Of Land Use and Transport In Outer NeighbourhoodS). Dr Marshall has written several publications addressing transport, planning and urban design issues, including Land Use and Transport (with David Banister), Link and Place: A Guide to Street Planning and Design (with Peter Jones and Natalya Boujenko) and Streets and Patterns.

Wesley Marshall, P.E., PhD Candidate, University of Connecticut
Wes Marshall has been working on planning and site design issues related to urban planning and transportation engineering for the last ten years. Having spent time with Sasaki Associates and Clough Harbour and Associates working on a wide variety of public and private projects, Mr. Marshall is now a PhD candidate in transportation engineering at the University of Connecticut and a researcher with UConn's new Center for Transportation and Urban Planning. Recent research includes a comprehensive reassessing of on-street parking, investigating the effects of parking on urbanism, and examining the influence of the road network on transportation safety and sustainability.

Kenneth G. Masden, II, ssociate Professor of Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio

John Massengale, Architect 2.o
John Massengale has won awards for architecture, urban design, historic preservation and architectural history. He is the Chairman of CNU New York, a Board member of the ICA&CA, and a former Board member of Federated Conservationists of Westchester County. In 2006, he won one of the first Seaside Prizes.

Steve Maun, President, LeylandAlliance LLC
Steve J. Maun is President of Leyland Alliance, Inc. Mr. Maun is a graduate of Princeton University. He currently serves as an Executive Board Member of the National Town Builders Association, a leading organization advocating Smart Growth and Traditional Neighborhood Design. Mr. Maun lives with his family in New York City.

Chris McCahill, Graduate Student, University of Connecticut, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Barbara McCann, Coordinator, National Complete Streets Coalition

Brewster McCracken, Council Member, City of Austin
Council Member Brewster McCracken is the strongest champion of New Urbanist development on the Austin City Council. Since taking office in 2003, he has led initiatives to create a Downtown Plan, Riverside Corridor Plan, and Transit-Oriented Development zones around Austin’s first commuter rail line. His signature Design Standards and Mixed Use ordinance is a citywide form-based code that establishes mixed-income vertical mixed-use overlay zones on 50 miles of commercial corridors. His most recent achievement is the creation of a parking enterprise that will finance and own parking facilities as a way to shape growth in Austin’s densifying core and to generate long-term revenue to expand Austin’s trails and transit infrastructure. He is Chairman of the Council's Land Use-Transportation Committee and a member of the boards of CAMPO and Capital Metro. As vice-chair of CAMPO’s Transit Working Group, he is devoting 2008 to developing the next steps toward Austin’s rail system.

Cole McDowell, President and Chief Operating Officer, Five Star Real Estate, Inc.

Marcy McInelly, AIA, President, Sera, Founder, Urbsworks, SERA + Urbsworks Architecture & Urban Design
Marcy McInelly has practiced architecture and urban design for almost 25 years in New York City and Portland, Oregon. In 1995, she founded Urbsworks, a Portland-based firm, and redirected her expertise to the often-neglected space between buildings. Urbsworks' portfolio consists of town plans, infill and redevelopment strategies, zoning and form-base codes, public involvement, and the integration of transit and transportation facilities into communities. Urbsworks' award-winning projects include the Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan, the Roseway Vision Plan, the New Columbia HOPE VI community and school, and NorthWest Crossing. Marcy served as an appointed member of the Portland Planning Commission from 1997 until May of 2002 and she is a founding member of the Portland metropolitan region Coalition for a Livable Future, a network of 60 non-profit and community-based organizations working together for regional growth management. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Marcy serves as co-chair of CNU's Transportation Task Force.Earlier this year she merged her company Urbsworks with SERA Architecture and Urban Design ̃a 100-person Portland-based firm.

T. Frick McNamara, ASLA , Associate Principal, MITHUN architects + designers + planners

Michael Mehaffy, Project Manager, Structura Naturalis Inc.
Michael Mehaffy is a project consultant and president of Structura Naturalis, based in Portland, Oregon. He is also a Research Associate with Christopher Alexander, and coordinator of the Environmental Structure Research Group, a network of prominent international researchers in the built environment. He worked extensively on the New Urbanist charrettes for New Orleans, where he spearheaded the development of the “Neighborhood Rebuilding Centers” as an element of the Unified New Orleans Plan.

Richard Milk, Community Development Coordinator, City of San Antonio

Terry Mitchell, CEO & Founder, Momark Development

Terry Montesi, Founding Partner, Trademark Property Co.

Wendy Morris, Director , Ecologically Sustainable Design

Geoffrey Mouen, Principal, Geoffrey Mouen Architects
Geoffrey Mouen is a practicing architect, planner, and teacher. He is the founding principal of Geoffrey Mouen Architects (GMA), director of Architectural Charrette Team (ACT), and the founding president of the Florida Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America. Since the establishment of GMA in 1999, Geoffrey has been primarily engaged in the disciplines of traditional architecture and traditional town planning. He served as town architect for Celebration, Florida from 1999-2002. Geoffrey has and continues to serve as town architect for numerous other New Urbanist developments, including Candella Island (Kissimmee, Florida), Sugarloaf Mountain (Clermont, Florida), and Albany Golf & Beach Club (New Providence, Bahamas). He has also made substantial contributions to the success of Baldwin Park (Winter Park, Florida), which include detailing the architectural pattern book, designing Builder Magazine Showcase homes, and designing communit