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Keynote Speakers
John Prescott, MP, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
John Prescott was born in Prestatyn, Wales, in 1938. The son of a railway signalman, he was educated at Ellesmere Port Secondary Modern and at 15 began work as a trainee chef.
In 1963, after working for ten years as a steward in the Merchant Navy, he gained a diploma in economics and politics at Ruskin College, Oxford, which specializes in courses for union working people. He later went on to gain a BSc in economics and economic history at the University of Hull.
Maritime safety motivated his decision to work as a full-time official for the National Union of Seamen between 1968 and 1970.
John Prescott was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Hull East in 1970. He was a member of the Council of Europe between 1972 and 1975, Delegate EEC Parliamentary in 1975 and Leader of the Labour Party Delegation to the European Parliament between 1976 and 1979.
He held a series of Shadow Cabinet posts, dealing with regional affairs, employment, energy and transport, and in 1994 was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Following the Labour Party's election in May 1997 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was created as part of the Cabinet Office in 2001, and was made a Department in its own right in 2002.
In May 2006 the PM asked John Prescott to chair a number of major Cabinet Committees and to oversee the efficient development of Government policy. He also asked him to continue with his international work particularly with regard to China and Eastern Europe, and, in recognition of his work in delivering the Kyoto Treaty, to work with the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment on developing the post Kyoto agenda.
In addition to these functions, the Deputy Prime Minister frequently represents the UK abroad on behalf of the Prime Minister.
John Prescott, MP
Kjell Forshed
Hon. Edward G. Rendell
Peter Calthorpe
Rep. Barney Frank
Robert A.M. Stern
Witold Rybczynski
Denise Scott Brown
Edward Mazria
Keynote Speakers
John Prescott, MP, Deputy Prime Minister of the United KingdomJohn Prescott was born in Prestatyn, Wales, in 1938. The son of a railway signalman, he was educated at Ellesmere Port Secondary Modern and at 15 began work as a trainee chef.
In 1963, after working for ten years as a steward in the Merchant Navy, he gained a diploma in economics and politics at Ruskin College, Oxford, which specializes in courses for union working people. He later went on to gain a BSc in economics and economic history at the University of Hull.
Maritime safety motivated his decision to work as a full-time official for the National Union of Seamen between 1968 and 1970.
John Prescott was elected Labour Member of Parliament for Hull East in 1970. He was a member of the Council of Europe between 1972 and 1975, Delegate EEC Parliamentary in 1975 and Leader of the Labour Party Delegation to the European Parliament between 1976 and 1979.
He held a series of Shadow Cabinet posts, dealing with regional affairs, employment, energy and transport, and in 1994 was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party.
Following the Labour Party's election in May 1997 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State for Environment, Transport and the Regions.
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister was created as part of the Cabinet Office in 2001, and was made a Department in its own right in 2002.
In May 2006 the PM asked John Prescott to chair a number of major Cabinet Committees and to oversee the efficient development of Government policy. He also asked him to continue with his international work particularly with regard to China and Eastern Europe, and, in recognition of his work in delivering the Kyoto Treaty, to work with the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for the Environment on developing the post Kyoto agenda.
In addition to these functions, the Deputy Prime Minister frequently represents the UK abroad on behalf of the Prime Minister.
Kjell Forshed, Principal, Brunnberg & Forshed Architects, Stockholm
Responsible for more than 15,000 apartments in more than 100 projects, Kjell Forshed is not only one of the most prolific Swedish architects at work today but also a key figure in the re-emergence there of human-centered architecture. Practicing since 1967, he acknowledges Camillo Sitte, Per Olof Hallman, and Albert Lillienberg as major influences.
Forshed is responsible for much of the best architecture at Sankt Erik, a 2005 Charter Award winning infill project in Stockholm. Despite a harsh critical reception from Swedish modernists, the project won accolades from jurors and brought CNU members to their feet when the award was presented.
Forshed has taught urban design at KTH, The Royal Technical School, Stockholm and been a member of the Stockholm Beauty Council and The Urban Environmental Council. He has written books and articles in journals and magazines, but most likes to sit down and sketch projects, both small and ordinary as well as more complicated.
Sharing observations from decades of experience humanizing developments in Sweden to jurying CNU’s 2007 Charter Awards, Forshed will challenge and inspire CNU XV attendees to reconnect with urbanism’s timeless virtues.
Hon. Edward G. Rendell, Governor, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania’s 45th Governor, began a second term of office on January 16, 2007, following a landslide re-election victory. As Governor, Rendell serves as chief executive of the nation’s 6th-most-populous state and oversees a $26 billion budget.
Governor Rendell’s unprecedented and strategic investments have energized Pennsylvania’s economy, revitalized communities, improved education, and expanded access to health care to all children and affordable prescription drugs for older adults. He championed and signed into law Pennsylvania’s first comprehensive measure to substantially reform the local tax system and provide $1 billion in urgently needed property tax relief to homeowners.
Governor Rendell is building on his efforts to make government more responsible to the public, and more responsive to the public’s needs. He is pursuing a legislative agenda that includes commonsense reforms that are designed to eliminate government waste, improve efficiency and put progress ahead of partisanship.
Under Governor Rendell’s leadership, Pennsylvania’s economy has rebounded sharply and continues to expand. Today, there are more jobs in Pennsylvania than ever before, with a net gain of more than 150,000 jobs since 2003. Pennsylvania now ranks 15th in the nation for job growth, up from 41st at the beginning of Governor Rendell’s first term. And, Pennsylvania’s unemployment rate has fallen over a full point and continues to be on par with the national average.
Under Governor Rendell, student achievement is on the rise at every grade level and in every subject. Pennsylvania’s public schools now have the resources to invest in proven education initiatives like pre-kindergarten, full-day kindergarten and tutoring. Almost 100 school districts are investing in class-size reduction in kindergarten through 3rd grade to benefit nearly 20,000 children.
Governor Rendell championed a dramatic increase in the number of older Pennsylvanians who receive affordable prescription drugs through Pennsylvania’s PACE and PACENET programs. He also brokered an agreement for the federal government to assume much of the cost of providing prescription assistance to seniors, allowing state funds to be reallocated to support other important services for older Pennsylvanians.
Governor Rendell has accomplished all of this while being a careful steward of the commonwealth’s finances. When he became Governor, the commonwealth faced a projected budget deficit of $2.4 billion. As one of his first acts, Governor Rendell cut government spending to close that deficit and implemented programs and policies to apply business principles of productivity and cost-savings to the operation of state government. By the end of 2006, through developing new business practices and focusing on innovation and efficiency throughout the government, the cost of government has been cut by $1 billion.
From 1992 through 1999, Governor Rendell served as the 121st Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. Among his many accomplishments as Mayor, Rendell eliminated a $250 million deficit; balanced the city's budget and generated five consecutive budget surpluses; reduced business and wage taxes for four consecutive years; implemented new revenue-generating initiatives, and dramatically improved services to the City's neighborhoods. The New York Times called the Philadelphia renaissance under Rendell “the most stunning turnaround in recent urban history.” Before serving as Mayor, Rendell was elected district attorney of the City of Philadelphia for two terms from 1978 through 1985.
The Governor, who served as general chair of the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 Presidential election, has always been active in the community through a variety of memberships on boards, and also teaches government and politics courses at the University of Pennsylvania. An Army veteran, the Governor is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1965) and Villanova Law School (J.D. 1968). He was born on January 5, 1944.
The Governor and his wife, First Lady Marjorie O. Rendell, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, have a son, Jesse. They will celebrate their 36th wedding anniversary on July 10, 2007.
Peter Calthorpe, Architect, Co-Founder of CNU, Author of The Next American Metropolis
Peter Calthorpe is a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a Principal at Calthorpe Associates. He has helped solidify a growing trend towards the key principals of New Urbanism: 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.
After studying at Yale's Graduate School of Architecture, Calthorpe promoted energy-efficient buildings and solar design initiatives at the Farrallones Institute, the California Office of the State Architect, and with Van der Ryn, Calthorpe and Partners. In 1983, he established Calthorpe Associates, allowing him to successfully implement his philosophies of regional design through cutting-edge projects in Portland, Salt Lake, Austin, the Twin Cities, and Los Angeles. 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. Chosen by the State of Louisiana to lead long-term planning efforts following the destruction caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita, 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.
Calthorpe has written influential works such as Sustainable Communities with Sim Van der Ryn (1986), Pedestrian Pocket Book (1989) with Doug Kelbaugh, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream (1993), and The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl (2001) with William Fulton, He has lectured extensively throughout the world and 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 prestigious JC Nichols Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Rep. Barney Frank, U.S. Representative, Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
Since 1981, U.S. Representative Barney Frank has served Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District and will be the chair of the House Banking Committee starting in January 2007. Frank was recently reelected to the 110th Congress and is now a Senior Democrat. He has been particularly supportive of brownfield redevelopment, environmental clean-up, increased funding for the Community Development Block Grant program, and other housing initiatives. In recent years, Frank has advocated and secured federal funds for increasing commuter rail accessibility for the handicapped, creating new commuter rail line extensions, and improving commuter bike paths. During the 109th Congress, Frank helped revitalize downtown New Bedford, MA through investment in infrastructure. Frank has also strongly defended federal funding for Amtrak and has recently spoke out against lacking funds allocated by the Rodney Administration for commuter rail to New Bedford and Fall River, MA. In 2006, Frank earned a 100% rating by the League of Conservation Voters for his impeccable environmental record.
Barney Frank earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, graduating in 1962. He then served as Chief Assistant to Boston Mayor Kevin White for three years. Afterwards, he served as Administrative Assistant to Congressman Michael J. Harrington, then returning to Harvard to complete his law degree which he completed in 1977. In 1972 he was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature.
Frank has taught at University of Massachusetts-Boston, the JFK School of Government at Harvard, and at Boston University. One of Representative Frank’s most well known political texts is Speaking Frankly (1992), a book about the role of the Democratic Party in the 1990s. He has appeared on various talk shows, including one with Chuck Morse’s show prior to the 2004 election, was featured on Open Source and was recently on Fox News Sunday.
Robert A.M. Stern, Architect, Teacher, Writer and Dean of the Yale School of Architecture
Robert A.M. Stern is a widely acclaimed architect, teacher, and writer. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and received the AIA New York Chapter's Medal of Honor in 1984 as well as the Chapter's President's Award in 2001. As founder and Senior Partner of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, he personally directs the design of each of the firm's projects. Robert A. M. Stern may have been the first architect to use the term “postmodernism,” but has more recently been described as a “modern traditionalist” due to his particular emphasis on context and the continuity of traditions. Stern may be most known for his residential design work; his forte is combining historical styles with contemporary contexts and successfully melding buildings with their surroundings.
Stern is a graduate of Columbia University (BA, 1960) and Yale University (M. Arch., 1965). Today, he is the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture where he is overseeing many changes and renovations to the schools' buildings. He was previously Professor of Architecture and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. Mr. Stern as the first director of Columbia's Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, and has lectured extensively in the United States and abroad on topics of architecture. He is the author of several books, including New Directions in American Architecture (1969; revised edition, 1977); George Howe: Toward a Modern American Architecture (1975); and Modern Classicism (1988). Mr. Stern's particular interest in the development of New York City's architecture and urbanism can be seen in his books, New York 1900 (1983) coauthored with John Massengale and Gregory Gilmartin; New York 1930 (1987) coauthored with Thomas Mellins and Gregory Gilmartin, which was nominated for a National Book Award, an unusual distinction for a book about architecture; New York 1960 (1995); and New York 1880 (1999) coauthored with Thomas Mellins and David Fishman.
Twelve books on Mr. Stern's work have been published including: Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1987-1992, edited by Elizabeth Kraft (1992) with an introduction by Vincent Scully; Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings (1996); Robert A.M. Stern: Houses (1997); Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1993-1998 (1998); Robert A.M. Stern: Buildings and Projects 1999-2003 (2003); and Robert A.M. Stern: Houses and Gardens (2005).
Mr. Stern's work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and universities and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1976, 1980, and 1996, he was among the architects selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. In 1986 Mr. Stern hosted "Pride of Place: Building the American Dream," an eight-part, eight-hour documentary television series aired on the Public Broadcasting System. Mr. Stern served on the Board of Directors of The Walt Disney Company from 1992 to 2003.
Witold Rybczynski, Professor, Critic, Architect, and Author of Home
Witold Rybczynski’s wide range of professional experience and interest reflects the multidisciplinary strengths of the New Urbanist movement. He is an acclaimed architecture critic and a Professor of Urbanism at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. As an architectural historian, Rybczynski offers a deep understanding of the historical themes that have guided architectural movements, notions of home, the development of American urbanism, and various matters of architectural style and fashion.
Rybczynski received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture from McGill University in Montreal, then taught at McGill after completing his degree. In 1996, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in Philadelphia where he currently researches real estate, architecture, urban design, and urbanism. Rybczynski is also Co-Editor of the Wharton Real Estate Review. Rybczynski serves on numerous boards, including the Encyclopedia Americana Advisory Board, the Urban Design International Editorial Board, the Open House International Editorial Board. He is on the U.S. Commission of Fine Art.
Rybczynski architectural criticism appears in such publications as Slate magazine and Rocky Mountain News. In recent articles, Rybczynski relates New Orleans to Rust Belt American cities and considers the slow response to recovery in contrast to the centralized, aggressive government efforts of Depression and WWII era. His publications include Home: A Short History of an Idea (1986), The Most Beautiful House in the World (1989), City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (1995), A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmstead and America in the Nineteenth Century (1999), The Look of Architecture (2001), and The Perfect House: A Journey with Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio (2002). He has received numerous awards including the Alfred Jurzykowski Award (1993), the Progressive Architecture Award (1991), Honorary Fellow, AIA (1993), Athanaeum of Philadelphia Award (1997, 2001), and Ballard Real Estate Scholar (1994, 2000, & 2004).
Denise Scott Brown, Renowned Architect and Urbanist, and Co-Author of Learning from Las Vegas
As an architect, planner, educator, and author, Denise Scott Brown is known world-wide for her architecture and urbanism as well as for contributions to theoretical research and education on the nature of cities. With her collaborator, architect Robert Venturi, she launched a critique of architectural modernism that led to the development of alternative strategies for urban design during the 1960s and 1970s, creatively combining elements of modernism with classical traditions and welcoming the contributions of numerous disciplines into the realm of architecture.
Scott Brown began her education in South Africa at Witwatersrand University and continued her training in London, later earning Master’s degrees in Architecture and City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Scott Brown has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Princeton, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Yale, where she created collaborative research courses in which architects studied problems in the built environment using empirical methods and drawing from media studies, pop art, and social science, thus greatly expanding the scope of architectural design.
As a Principal in the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, she is involved in the firm's major architectural projects and directs their planning and urban design efforts. Her projects range from master plans and schematic designs for the Denver Civic Center Cultural Complex and the University of Michigan's Palmer Drive Life Sciences complex, to campus plans for Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania, and developing architectural requirements for the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of the American Indian. She authored Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time (2004) with Robert Venturi; Urban Concepts (1990); and Learning from Las Vegas (1972) with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour. Scott Brown has lectured widely and received many honorary degrees and awards.
Edward Mazria, Senior Principal at Mazria Inc. and Founder of Architecture 2030
Edward Mazria is an internationally recognized architect with a long and distinguished career. His architecture and planning projects span over a thirty-year period and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach to its design.
His published material includes technical papers, articles for professional magazines, and a number of published works including The Passive Solar Energy Book published by Rodale Press. His most recent article It's the Architecture Stupid! published in Solar Today Magazine, and subsequent articles Turning Down the Global Thermostat in Metropolis Magazine and Blueprint for Disaster in On Earth Magazine, outline his strategy for addressing today's most pressing global challenge, climate change. His buildings have been published in Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Metropolis, ArchitecturalRecord, Landscape Architecture, Architectural Digest, Process, Public Garden, Solar Today, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times to name a few.
Mr. Mazria lectures extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has taught architecture at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, UCLA, and the University of Colorado-Denver. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at theUniversity of New Mexico.
He is the recipient of numerous awards including AIA Design Awards, AIA Design Innovation Award, Commercial Building Awards from the Department of Energy, "Pioneer Award" from the American Solar Energy Society and an Outstanding Planning Award from the American Planning Association.
He is senior principal at Mazria Inc., an architecture and planning firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico and founder of Architecture2030 a global movement to address the current climate crisis. He speaks nationally and internationally on the subject of the building sector, energy and climate change.
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Ramon Abonce, Professor, Tecnologico de Monterrey Queretaro Campus
Angelo Alberto, AIA,AICP
, President, Alberto and Associates
Angelo Alberto is the principal and founder of Alberto & Associates; a multidisciplinary firm specializing in traditional architecture and urban design. Mr. Alberto’s
expertise is in physical place-making and the firm specializes in traditional urban infill and mixed-use redevelopment. The firm is involved in numerous urban and
waterfront redevelopment projects along the Delaware River and New Jersey shore. As a licensed planner and architect, Mr. Alberto is particularly skilled at assisting
private entities in taking complex projects from concept, through approvals to construction. Mr. Alberto is the author of the Town & Country Planning Model which was
presented at CNU-IV. Town & Country promotes a balanced approach to greenfield TND development and open space preservation and has resulted built projects in
Delaware, New Jersey and South Carolina. Mr. Alberto holds a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from Cornell University, a Master’s degree in Urban Design from
Harvard and he has lectured extensively.
John Anderson, Vice President, Planning and Design, New Urban Builders, Inc.
Christopher Andrews, Architect and Town Planner
Christopher Andrews works as an architect and town planner in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a focus on
environmentally sustainable and design build approaches at all levels of scale. He grew up in the 1960’s in New York City, in a
multicultural and artistic environment, thus instilling the importance of both creativity and community at an early age. His work
has been published in The New York Times, Progressive Architecture, Woodenboat Magazine, Nowtime,
and Competitions Magazine. Along with various architectural and planning endeavors he is currently
working with weavers in Turkey and Azerbaijan on a project to revive the classical Anatolian carpet
patterns of the 15th century, using handspun wool and natural dyes.
Murphy V. Antoine, Jr, AIA, AICP, Architect/Urban Designer, Torti Gallas and Partners
Murphy Antoine is a Principal with Torti Gallas and Partners, a fifty-four year old, full service, planning and architecture firm with offices in Silver Spring,
Maryland and Los Angeles, California. He leads one of the firm’s Neighborhoods Studios, with primary areas of responsibility in the firm’s extensive and
award winning revitalization portfolio -- to date concentrating on Military Housing Privatization, HOPE VI, and Housing Tax Credit redevelopments. His
efforts to implement these important workforce and affordable housing policy programs through appropriate and contextual neighborhood planning and
architecture have manifested themselves nationwide in over eighteen revitalization projects.
His urban design, planning and architecture expertise in the area of mixed income and affordable housing has been tapped by the AIA, CNU, HUD, the
National Building Museum, and the National Charrette Institute, where he has contributed as a speaker, presenter, juror, and exhibitor. His projects with
Torti Gallas have been honored with awards from the CNU, AIA, HUD, NAHB, Residential Architect and Builder magazines.
A registered architect, and certified planner, Murphy is a member of the AIA, CNU, and the APA, and is a twice elected officer of the New Urbanism
Division of the APA. He holds Masters Degrees in Urban and Environmental Planning, and in Architecture, both from the University of Virginia, along
with specialized studies Certificates in American Urbanism, and in Historic Preservation. He also received his Bachelors of Science in Architecture from
UVa, and subsequently worked as an architect in the production home building industry, and on TOD community planning along Virginia’s proposed high-
speed rail corridor.
GB Arrington, Principal Practice Leader, PB PlaceMaking
GB Arrington is Parson Brinckerhoff’s most senior practitioner in the field of linking transit and land use. For the last 20+ years GB has played a key role in the Portland
region’s innovative experiment to reinvent the American dream of a livable community by marrying transportation and land use. He was asked by the White House to
organize and moderate Vice President Gore’s first Livable Communities roundtable and has served as an advisor to the Federal Transit Administration and communities
from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Perth, Western Australia interested in growing smart. In the past year GB has lead three TOD policy studies of national significance – the
Governor’s Task Force on Transit Oriented Development for Maryland, the California Statewide Study of Transit Oriented Development and the Mayor’s Special Transit-
Oriented Development Task Force for Washington, D.C. His work with station area planning received a national award of excellence from Progressive Architecture and a
First Place in the Livable Communities Initiative Transit Design Competition from the Federal Transit Administration. GB has been called “one of the nation’s leading
practitioners of the New Urbanism.” He is one of the founders of the Rail~Volution Conference and frequently writes and speaks on smart growth and transportation and
has been interviewed on PBS television, National Public Radio and quoted extensively in books and articles on light rail, transit-oriented development and regional
planning.
GB has managed numerous complex interdisciplinary planning projects. The strategic planning work he directed charted an award winning new direction for Portland’s
transit agency. His innovative transit planning and community involvement strategies changed the face of transit in Portland’s suburbs and received a Way to Go Award!
from ReNew America and the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Elinor R. Bacon, President, E.R. Bacon Development LLC
Elinor Bacon has more than 25 years experience in housing, real estate development and community development in the public and private sectors. In 2002, Ms. Bacon
formed E.R. Bacon Development, LLC, a real estate development and consulting firm. The firm’s focus is on urban infill; mixed-use, mixed-income development; affordable
housing including HOPE VI; and adaptive reuse of historic buildings.
She launched the National Capital Revitalization Corporation and served, under HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the United States
Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Public Housing Investments. Before joining HUD, Ms. Bacon was a private real estate developer and consultant
in Baltimore and worked in the field of public sector housing and community development on the City and Federal levels of government.
She has a MA in Chinese Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA from The New School for Social Research. She is on the Board of the National
Aquarium, the DC Advisory Board of The Living Classrooms Foundation and the Workforce Housing Task Force of the Urban Land Institute DC District Council.
Lolly Barnes, Vice President, White House Properties
Lolly Barnes, a native of Biloxi, has been working in the field of
historic preservation in that city for 13 years. Following Hurricane
Katrina, Lolly served on the infrastructure and tourism committees of
the Governor's Commission for Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and
worked with the Biloxi team for the Mississippi Renewal Forum. She
also worked with the National Trust for Historic Preservation as
Program Officer for the Mississippi Gulf Coast Field Office to
promote the restoration of historic buildings damaged in the storm.
She is a 2003 Knight Fellow in Community Building.
Jonathan Barnett, Professor of City and Regional Planning , University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan is an architect, education, planner and author on numerous books on the
theory and practice of urban design, including the recently published Redesigning
Cities. An advisor to key government agencies and cities throughout the US and
abroad, Jonathan has influenced the way cities are designed. He undertakes a
variety of urban design projects and is helping to shape the nation’s urban agenda.
Jonathan is also a professor of city and regional planning and director of the Urban
Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kyle Beidler, Graduate Student, Department of Landscape Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State
University
Kyle Beidler is a Ph.D. candidate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University within the College of Architecture and Urban Studies. Prior to
studying at Virginia Tech, Kyle completed an undergraduate degree in Landscape
Architecture at Penn State. He also holds two master degrees in Landscape
Architecture and Community and Regional Planning from Iowa State University.
His current research and academic interests center on issues of place within the
context of community design. Specifically, Kyle is interested in the experiences
that individual residents contribute to their “sense of place” as a means of
combating the “placelessness” associated with nondescript residential
subdivisions.
Rock Bell, General Manager, East Beach Company LLC
Dwight Belyue , President, Belmar Development Group
With experience spanning over 24 years as a licensed realtor and builder in the State Of Michigan, Mr. Belyue is primarily involved in real estate development and
construction management. Building on experience gained as a Facility Engineer for General Motors, he has managed and supervised more than 1.5 billion dollars of
construction and development projects. His main areas of expertise are: building design, administration, contract negotiations, estimating, acquisitions, construction
management, and financing. Mr. Belyue is dutifully responsible for the development and management of several hundred thousand square feet of commercial space. He
owns and manages: Belmar Development, LLC, Belyue Enterprises, LLC, Bonnie Bridge Villas, LLC, 3100 Woodward, LLC, Condos @ 75, LLC, Central Brush Park,
LLC, and @water lofts, LLC. With his basis in Detroit, he has consistently sat on housing boards and non-profits as an independent consultant focusing on affordable
urban redevelopment. Further accomplishments have been building and managing several housing developments in Michigan. Mr. Belyue was also integral in the building
of an automotive processing center in Africa and the Majestic Star Casino Development At Buffington Harbor in Gary, Indiana. Mr. Belyue is married and has two small
children. He and his family are devoted members of Word of Faith International Christian Center. Mr.Belyue also gives of his free time to the Detroit Urban branch of the
National Christian mentoring group, Young Life.
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.
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.
Scott Bernstein, President, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Allen D. Biehler, PE, Secretary of Transportation, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Before taking the lead at PENNDOT, Secretary Biehler amassed 34 years experience in transportation engineering, planning, construction administration and public
transportation management. While a vice president at the international transportation consulting firm of DMJM+Harris, Secretary Biehler was project manager for the
North Shore Light Rail Transit connector and for the Strategic Visioning Study--both in Pittsburgh. He also was director of planning and preliminary engineering for the
Tren Urbano rail system in San Juan, Puerto Rico.During a 17-year career at the Port Authority of Allegheny County, Secretary Biehler served as director of planning and
business development and later director of planning, engineering and construction. Before joining the Port Authority, Secretary Biehler worked for 12 years in city and
county government in Pittsburgh on highway and aviation planning. He was involved in the planning for the new landside terminal at Pittsburgh International Airport and
in reviews of the administrative organization for the airport's management and operations. He was instrumental in persuading the Port Authority to implement a light rail
subway in downtown Pittsburgh.Secretary Biehler has also served on committees of the Transportation Research Board, the American Public Transportation Association
and the University of Pittsburgh. He has written articles for national transportation professional journals and was awarded a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the
University of Pittsburgh in 1997. A native of Rochester, New York, Secretary Biehler is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in civil engineering and
holds a master's equivalent certificate in transportation from Yale University. He is a certified professional engineer.
Eugenie Birch, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor
Chair, Department oof City and Regional Planning Department, University of Pennsylvania
Kirk R. Bishop
, Executive Vice President, Duncan Associates
Xavier Bishop, Mayor, Moss Point
XAVIER BISHOP is the Mayor of Moss Point. He took
office one month before Hurricane Katrina. Moss
Point is located 30 miles west of Mobile,
Alabama. Like other cities on the Gulf Coast it
sustained considerable damage from the storm.
Mayor Bishop writes: "Moss Point's road to
recovery began with a vision that blended the
richness of its past with the principles of New
Urbanist design. With the assistance of the HOK
design team, that progress continues today." The
Mayor will share with us the achievements and
setbacks of rebuilding this coastal city.
Karen
Black
, Principal, May 8 Consulting
Karen L. Black is the Principal of May 8 Consulting, Inc. a firm that performs policy research, development, and analysis to form innovative and creative
solutions to seemingly intractable problems facing urban, suburban and/or rural communities. Ms. Black’s current projects involve creating competitive
cities strategies such as increasing state and local tools to combat residential abandonment, streamlining Philadelphia’s development review process,
and finding ways to leverage and renew transit as an asset in Philadelphia. In addition, Ms. Black is working with organizations throughout Philadelphia
to create a pragmatic agenda to improve the city’s physical infrastructure and environment.
May 8’s clients include the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Housing Alliance of Pennsylvania, Building Industry Association of Philadelphia,
Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future, 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, The Reinvestment Fund, Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Collaborative and
The Women’s Community Revitalization Project. May 8’s projects are selected with the intent of informing public debate and public policy and providing
needed information for resolving contemporary problems. In addition, Ms. Black teaches urban studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to beginning her consulting practice, Ms. Black was the founding director of the Metropolitan Philadelphia Policy Center, a region-wide policy center
founded to research issues significant to Southeastern Pennsylvania and connect expert knowledge and other jurisdiction’s experience to regional
policymakers. The Center successfully animated conversation around the challenges confronting communities within the region and produced
compelling data towards the need to change and refine state land use, tax, and urban abandonment and housing policies in order to restore vibrancy to
Metropolitan Philadelphia.
Ms. Black came to the Policy Center having completed a two year fellowship with Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School and the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development as a HUD Community Builder to improve HUD’s delivery of services to the region. This unique fellowship provided
Ms. Black with a unique opportunity to work within government and playing an active role in reforms that HUD’s Secretary and Harvard’s experts believed
were critical to the agency’s ability to serve the community.
Prior to that Ms. Black practiced law for eleven years in the area of civil rights. Ms. Black joined the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, a non-
profit, non-partisan legal organization dedicated to equal justice in 1989. She founded and directed the Housing and Police Projects at the Center. For a
decade, Ms. Black pursued a well-respected legal career where she was responsible for significant reforms in the lending, rental and sales practices by
numerous area property owners, real estate agents, lenders and homeowners’ insurance providers. Her work has caused entire industries to redefine
their practices.
Ms. Black is the author of numerous reports and professional articles, a frequent lecturer and speaker and a commentator for television and radio
programs. She received a Bachelor’s from Williams College and a Doctorate of Law from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Phyllis Bleiweis, Executive Director, Seaside Institute
Jeff Bounds, Planning Consultant, Mississippi Renewal Coalition
Jeff Bounds is a planning consultant and a native of Gulfport. He has
an engineering degree from MIT and was living in Boston at the time
of Katrina. Since then he has moved home to help with rebuilding.
Jeff has consulted for several Gulf Coast cities on the SmartCode,
and shepherded the Gulfport SmartCode to citywide adoption in
February 2007.
Robert P. Bowman, President, Charter Homes and Neighborhoods
As President of CHARTER HOMES & NEIGHBORHOODS, Rob is responsible for having delivered over 2,500 homes throughout Central Pennsylvania.
The company’s focus on Building to RespectTM is an industry leading approach to responsible land use.
Some of Rob’s proudest accomplishments include the creation of Millcreek in 2003, which is the first Neighborhood in Lancaster County to showcase new
thinking about how to plan and build while being thoughtful about place. Florin Hill, which opened in 2006, is the first true mixed use Neighborhood
planned and built in Lancaster County in 80 years. And, Walden, introduced in 2006, which is the first Neighborhood in the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
market to use design and planning to create place and introduce Build to RespectTM in a market dominated by conventional development.
Rob’s contributions back to the community include establishing “The House That Baxter Built” resulting in over $1 million being donated to the United
Way; and, serving on various boards including: Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership, James Street
Improvement District and the United Way.
Rob grew up working in his family’s heavy construction business in southern New Jersey. He then attended the Colorado School of Mines, then graduated
from Arizona State University at Tempe, and attended Harvard Business School Executive Education programs. He has He lives with his wife, Deborah
and two children in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Jason Brody, Doctoral Canidate, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign
Jason Brody is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He previously earned a Masters degree in City Planning in 2003 from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors degree from
Washington University in Saint Louis in 1998, majoring in architecture. Jason focuses on urban design, with particular interests in design
inquiry, professional knowledge, and town planning. He expects to submit his dissertation, “Constructing Professional Knowledge: The
Neighborhood Unit diagram in the Community Builders Handbook 1947-1975” in May 2008.
Scott A. Brown, P. E. , Senior Engineer, Pennoni Associates
Scott A. Brown, P.E., is a senior engineer and group leader for Pennoni Associates, Inc. Mr. Brown has over 25 years of experience in water resource management and
residential and commercial site infrastructure design. His primary area of expertise is in urban drainage design and storm water management. In addition to extensive
design experience, Mr. Brown is the principle author of the Federal Highway Administrations Urban Drainage Design Manual (HEC-22), and has recently been an active
participant on the Oversight Committee for the Pennsylvania Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual. Over the past four years, he has developed and presented
numerous educational seminars and workshops on topics in storm water management. Mr. Brown is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and Virginia. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.
Dan Burden, Director, Glatting Jackson, Kercher, Anglin, Inc.
Marcela Camblor, Urban Design Coordinator, Treasure Coast Regional Council
Marcela is the Director of Urban Design for the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council. In this capacity, she served as the project manager
for the Towns, Village and Centers Plan, the new urbanist comprehensive plan for St. Lucie County, Florida.
Kim Cameron, Large Scale Development Specialist, Urban Programs. , Habitat for Humanity International
Kimberly Cameron is the Large Scale Development Specialist for the
Urban Programs Department of Habitat for Humanity International. Kimberly
is responsible for providing leadership and support to affiliates
operating in urban areas seeking to increase the production of affordable homes
in their communities. Specifically she focuses on effective strategies
that can increase the ability of urban affiliates to produce large scale
development that are successful and sustainable over time. Prior to
working for HFHI, Kim was the Vice President of Real Estate
Development for H.J. Russell & Company in Atlanta, GA leading developments in the
areas of HOPE VI, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Tax-Exempt Bonds and
Conventional Financing. She holds an MBA-Finance from Concordia
University Wisconsin and BS Construction Management from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Julie
Campoli, Terra Firma Urban Design, Burlington, VT; Co-author,
“Visualizing Density” (Lincoln Institute, 2007)
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Dennis Carmichael, Landscape Architect, Alexandria, Virginia
Dennis Carmichael is a principal and vice president with EDAW and has been with the firm for 25 years. His focus is placemaking in the public
realm. With dozens of built projects around the country, his work in public places is characterized by the use of narrative, cultural and
historical references in landscape solutions. Rather than a signature style, his approach to design is about revealing the special qualities of a
given place, seeking to make the landscape visible, comprehensible and valuable.
His work has given several cities renewed vigor as it created opportunities for new investment. In Louisville, Kentucky, $10 million worth of
public plazas and streetscape has generated over $50 million in new housing, retail, office and museum construction. In Chattanooga,
Tennessee, Ross’s Landing, a $9 million park, has helped stimulate over $100 million in a new riverfront neighborhood. And in Atlanta, the
$25 million Centennial Olympic Park has become a catalyst for $500 million in reinvestment in the surrounding blocks of downtown. Dennis
has received dozens of design awards and his work has been published in such magazines as Landscape Architecture, Urban Land, and
Architecture. In 2006, Dennis served as President of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Eduardo Castillo, Principal, Castillo Arquitectos
Eduardo Castillo is a Guatemalan architect and town planner. He holds a
Master of Architecture degree from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
He is the principal of Castillo Arquitectos, an architecture and urban
design firm that specializes in the design of new neighborhoods and towns.
The firm, established 2004 in the City of Guatemala, was created with the
intention of proposing New Urbanism design alternatives for urban and
real-estate development projects in the Central American and Caribbean
region.
He is a member of CNU and a founding member of CRECER, (which literary means
Œto grow‚), a Guatemalan non-profit organization that provides outreach
between the private and public sectors to promote urban revitalization
projects in the City of Guatemala. bio info for Sue Mosey, President, University Cultural Center Association, Detroit, MI
Susan T. Mosey has been the President of the University Cultural Center Association for twenty years. This non-profit organization is
responsible for economic development and marketing activities within Detroit's University Cultural Center and adjacent neighborhoods -
an area now known as Midtown Detroit. Projects that have been undertaken or completed under her direction include installation of a
comprehensive wayfinding signage system for the district; public improvements including streetscape enhancements, park and median
improvements, and an urban greenway; production of the area's two signature events - the Detroit Festival of the Arts and Noel Night.
One of the organizations most recent projects was the development of the Inn on Ferry Street, a 40-room boutique inn that opened in
November, 2001 adjacent to the Detroit Institute of Atts. This historic renovation of an entire block of 1880's mansions cost
approximately $8.5M and has won numerous local, regional and nat!
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ional preservation awards. In addition, Ms. Mosey created a predevelopment loan fund for residential development that has funded over
700 units of housing in Midtown.
Ms. Mosey holds a Master's degree in Urban Planning from Wayne State University in Detroit.
Mr. Castillo is a long-time collaborator of Dover Kohl & Partners, of Coral
Gables, and collaborates with them and others in projects in the US and
Central America.
Philip B. Caton, President, Clarke Caton Hintz
Phil Caton is a senior partner in the Trenton, NJ architecture and planning firm of Clarke Caton Hintz, where for over 30 years he has directed land use programming, site
planning and redevelopment initiatives for public agencies and private developers. His public experience includes four years as director of the N.J. Deivision of Housing
and Urban Development at the N.J. Department of Community Affairs, which included administration of the Hotel and Multiple Dwelling Act, the Uniform Relocation Act,
and staffing the N.J. Redevelopment Agency, a statewide housing and redevelopment agency.
Shannon Chance, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Hampton University
Shannon Chance is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Hampton University,
teaching Architecture, Urban Design, and Humanities. Chance received her Bachelor
and Master of Architecture degrees at Virginia Tech, and has worked in architectural
offices in Switzerland and Virginia. Chance is currently participating in collaborative
projects with the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania through a grant from the
ROTCH Foundation. She is also involved with HUD-funded Fair Housing initiatives.
Chance serves as Commissioner of Architectural Review for the City of Portsmouth,
Virginia, where she is renovating a circa 1900 Victorian house. Chance’s research has
included papers “Keeping the Place: A Methodology for Culture-Specific Design,”
“Redefining Architectural Education at a Historically Black College/University,” and
“Understanding Homeland through a Comparison of Cultures.”
Jessica Cogan Millman, Senior Advisor, District of Columbia Office of Planning
Jessica Cogan Millman, Senior Advisor, DC Office of Planning
Jessica is serving a short-term appointment as Senior Advisor to the DC Office of Planning. In this capacity she will work with the Director of
Planning in shaping the office to accomplish the goals and objectives of the new Mayor.
Just prior to this appointment, Jessica as the manager of the Coalition for Smarter Growth’s DC and Maryland programs. Jessica spent much
of her time working for the adoption of good planning policies.
Prior to joining the Coalition, Jessica served as the Deputy Director of the Smart Growth Leadership Program, which was created by former
Maryland Governor Parris Glendening to help state and local elected, civic and business leaders design and implement effective smart growth
strategies. Jessica has also served as the Chief of Staff for the Governor’s Office of Smart Growth in Maryland and as the Director of Program
and Policy Coordination at the Maryland Department of Planning. Before arriving in Maryland, Jessica was Deputy Director of the Urban and
Economic Development Division at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In 1998, Jessica was elected as an Advisory
Neighborhood Commissioner in Washington, DC.
She is currently Vice President of the DC Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, sits on the Board of the Washington Regional
Network for Livable Communities and recently completed a Knight Foundation Fellowship for Community Building. Jessica has a Master
Degree in Land Use and Environmental Planning.
Jeffrey A. Cohen, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Growth & Structure of Cities Program, Bryn Mawr
College
Jeffrey Cohen is an architectural historian teaching in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn
Mawr College. He has written on architects Benjamin Latrobe, Frank Furness, and Wilson Eyre, on early
architectural schools, architectural drawings, architectural libraries, and late 19th-century townhouses, the
subject of his dissertation.
Thomas J. Comitta, AICP RLA ASLA, President, Thomas Comitta Associates, Inc., Town Planners & Landscape
Architects
Thomas J. Comitta, AICP, RLA, ASLA is a Town Planner & Landscape Architect from West Chester, Pa. He is the author of Chapter 18 in the
CNU Charter book on parks and open spaces in neighborhoods and communities. He is Co-Chair of the CNU XV Host Committee.
As President of Thomas Comitta Associates, Inc., Town Planners & Landscape Architects, he has served as a planning and design
consultant to over 60 municipalities since 1973. Tom specializes in writing Codes and preparing Design Manuals for New Urban
communities and neighborhoods.
Patrick M. Condon, James Taylor Chair in Landscape & Livable Environments, University of British Columbia
Patrick Condon is originally from Massachusetts, and has a BSc and a MLA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His 20 years experience in government and
academia and stint as Director of Community Development for the city of Westfield, Mass. gives him a unique perspective on local government efforts to address urban
natural resource issues. Professor Condon moved to British Columbia in 1992 to become the Director of the Landscape Architecture Program and, in 1994, the UBC James
Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. He has published widely and has lectured at many North American Universities. As an extension of his work with
Moriarty-Condon Ltd., a Vancouver planning and landscape architecture firm specializing in sustainable community and site design, Patrick has developed a practical set
of alternative development standards for sustainable communities. In his capacity as the James Taylor Chair, Patrick is the driving force behind the Headwaters
Sustainable Development Demonstration Project, a sustainable community for 15,000 persons slated for construction on a 500-acre site in Surrey BC. The Headwaters
Project is intended to be the region's first sustainable neighbourhood, where houses are affordable, transit is accessible, commercial services are available, and most
importantly, natural systems are preserved and enhanced. Professor Condon has worked closely with city officials in a round table process that has involved all of the major
stakeholders to solve problem that have defied conventional engineering and planning models prior to this time, The plans for the community, as well as the process by
which such plans were derived and approved, are a significant departure from the status quo. They offer a possible solution to the ongoing conflict between our need to
densify our metropolitan areas to eliminate sprawl, and our equally urgent need to protect habitat.
Jaime Correa, Founding Partner, Jaime Correa and Associates
Maurice Cox, Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia
Maurice Cox, Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia and former Mayor of Charlottesville, VA
B.Arch., Cooper Union
Associate Professor
Maurice D. Cox is an architectural educator, urban designer and City Counselor for the City of Charlottesville. He is a native of New York City,
where he received a B. Arch. from the Cooper Union School of Architecture in 1983. He taught for six years as an Assistant Professor of
Architecture at Syracuse University's Italian Program in Florence, Italy. His teaching in Florence was accompanied by ten years of professional
practice in partnership with Giovanna Galfione, focusing on urban design issues. Since arriving at the University of Virginia in 1993 as an
Assistant Professor of Architecture, he has coordinated the required undergraduate introductory design studio and has taught various graduate
seminars focusing on community-based, collaborative processes of urban place making. In 1996 he co-founded the architectural practice of RBGC
Architecture, Research and Urbanism with partners Craig Barton, Giovanna Galfione and Martha Rowen in Charlottesville, Virginia. Civic
activism and community service characterize all aspects of his teaching, professional practice and academic scholarship, and he is widely known as
an advocate for citizen participation in the important planning decisions that affect a community's life. He was elected to the Charlottesville City
Council in 1996. He serves on the Charlottesville Housing and Redevelopment Authority as a transportation representative to the Metropolitan
Planning Organization.
Stephen Coyle, AIA, Regional Planning Advisor, HDR Engineering
Susan E. Craft, Executive Director, New Jersey State Agriculture Development Committee, New Jersey State Transfer of Development
Rights Bank Board
Susan E. Craft has served as Executive Director of the N.J. State Agriculture Development Committee (SADC) and the N.J. State Transfer of Development Rights Bank
Board (TDR Bank Board) since January 2005. The SADC administers New Jersey’s Farmland Preservation Program and promotes innovative approaches to maintaining
the viability of agriculture. It also administers the Right to Farm Program and operates the Farm Link Program, which serves as a resource and referral center for farmers
seeking land and assistance on estate and farm transfer plans. The TDR Bank Board is empowered to purchase and sell development potential from lands located within
municipalities with approved TDR programs, provide TDR planning assistance grants to municipalities and the Highlands Council, and provide loan guarantees for loans
secured with TDR credits.
As Executive Director, Craft has spearheaded a comprehensive review of the Farmland Preservation Program to streamline and improve processes, and make the program
more predictable, efficient and effective. She has also reorganized the SADC staff structure and assignments to improve program implementation and responsiveness.
Under her direction, the SADC met its FY05 and FY06 Garden State Preservation Trust Fund expenditure goal of $80,000,000 per year.
Prior to joining the SADC, Craft was coordinator of Burlington County’s nationally recognized farmland preservation and transfer of development rights programs since
1993. More than 21,000 acres of farmland have been preserved in Burlington County, more than any other county in New Jersey.
Under Craft’s direction, Burlington County established the first transfer of development rights (TDR) programs in the state in Lumberton and Chesterfield townships.
Through Lumberton’s TDR program, approximately 500 new residential units have been developed and more than 840 acres of farmland permanently preserved.
Chesterfield Township’s TDR program calls for the development of more than 1,000 new residential units and the preservation of more than 4,000 additional acres of
farmland. The success of these two pilot programs greatly assisted in the securing the passage of New Jersey’s statewide Transfer of Development Rights law in 2004.
Craft also formerly was director of Burlington County’s Lane Use Planning office for eight years. Accomplishments achieved under her direction included establishment of
a 4-cent dedicated farmland and open space trust fund tax, NJ State Planning Commission endorsement of a regional Strategic Plan for the Route 130/Delaware River
Corridor, creation of the Burlington County Parks System, and designation of Burlington County as the planning agency for a regional water supply planning initiative.
Craft is a licensed professional planner who graduated from Cook College, Rutgers University, with a bachelor’s degree in environmental planning and design.
Marianne Cusato, Cusato Cottages LLC
Thomas D’Alesandro, Senior Vice President, General Growth Properties Inc.
Thomas J. D’Alesandro IV
An executive and civic leader with more than 20 years of experience in orchestrating the development of real estate projects and partnerships
for a wide range of retail, residential, commercial, hospitality, recreational, and civic uses.
Experience Highlights:
Thomas D’Alesandro currently heads General Growth Properties’ (GGP) development at its shopping and town centers as well as its master
planned communities. GGP manages over 200 of the nation’s most prominent shopping centers, many of which are evolving into mixed use
districts. The GGP community portfolio also consists of some of the most recognized and successful large scale new communities in the nation,
including Columbia in Maryland, The Woodlands in Texas, Summerlin in Nevada, and Bridgeland, also in Texas.
Prior to GGP:
President and CEO of The Woodlands Development Company. The Woodlands, Texas is a 27,000-acre master-planned community north of
Houston.
Vice President of Terrabrook and General Manager of its Eastern Region. Projects included Reston Town Center in Virginia and Windward in
Georgia.
At Reston, Tom established the program at the 460-acre Reston Town Center for 6.2 million square feet of office, hotel, civic, residential and
retail uses through direct and venture investment, as well as land sales to other developers.
Prior to Terrabrook, Tom served as Vice President of Mobil Land Development Corporation, with responsibilities at five master planned
communities totaling over 13,500 acres.
Education:
Ann Daigle, Prinicpal, New Urban Image
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.
Tom Daniels, Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Tom Daniels is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches Environmental Planning, Land Use
Planning, Growth Management and Land Preservation.
For nine years, Tom managed the nationally recognized farmland preservation program in Lancaster County, PA, where he now lives.
He is the author of "When City and Country Collide: Managing Growth in the Metropolitican Fringe," and co-author of "Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's
Farms and Farmland," "The Small Town Planning Handbook," and "The Environmental Planning Handbook." He often serves as a consultant to state and local
governments and land trusts on growth management and land preservation issues.
Victor Deupi, Arthur Ross Director of Education, Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America
Tom DiGiovanni, Principal, New Urban Builders
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.
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
Carl Dranoff, CEO and President, Dranoff Properties
Dranoff Properties Inc. was formed in 1997 under the ownership and direction of Carl E. Dranoff. His commitment to setting new standards of luxury and excitement
through use of character-defining features and cutting-edge locations has established Dranoff Properties as one of the most influential forces in redefining urban living.
Prior to forming Dranoff Properties, Dranoff was President of the Residential Division of the Rubin Organization. He was responsible for the development and management
of over 7,000 multifamily units located in seven states.In the 1980s, Dranoff was the CEO of Historic Landmarks for Living, where he designed, developed and completed
the adaptive reuse of 66 historic properties in 12 states comprising over 3,000 luxury apartment units. Historic Landmarks for Living became the foremost rehabber of
historic buildings in the United States during his tenure. Dranoff is a lifelong Philadelphian, who earned a civil engineering degree from Drexel University, and an MBA
from Harvard University. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate in Engineering from Drexel University, who cited him as “a nationally recognized civic leader and
entrepreneur whose work has brought a renewed sense of history to Philadelphia and urban Americans throughout the country.” He is an active member of the Urban
Land Institute and is Chair of the Philadelphia Council. Dranoff is also a member of The University of the Arts Board of Trustees, The University City District, the Center
City District, Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and the New Jersey Historic Trust Board.
Ed P. Drogaris, President and CEO , The Drogaris Companies
A long time supporter of economic development and ecological preservation, Mr. Drogaris is very involved in organizations where the
objective is to reverse deteriorating conditions in Lancaster County and other areas of
Pennsylvania. He was one of the organizers of the Lancaster County Liveable Communities Task Force and helped coordinate the
Liveable Communities Forum and Design Charette which involved over 200 community, state and federal
leaders, and focused on the reinstitution of the liveable communities concept. Mr. Drogaris is currently on the Economic Development
Committee of the Lancaster Campaign and a past Board Member of the Executive Counsel for Economic Leadership. He is a former
Board Member of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and is currently on the Community Initiatives Council for the Lancaster Chamber
of Commerce. Mr. Drogaris is Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and a member of the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania
Environmental Council. He is also on the Policy Council for 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania. Mr. Drogaris’s projects have been featured
in local and national publications and have won local regional and national design awards as well as Historic Preservation Awards.
Mr. Drogaris has been involved in numerous development projects involving the retrofitting of historic factories and warehouses into
contemporary commercial and residential space. Some of Mr. Drogaris’s work also focuses on new construction of single and multifamily
housing. Mr. Drogaris has given lectures and presented before the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has testified
before the Pennsylvania State Legislature on alternative forms of land development. He has also been an advisor to The Howard Heinz
Foundation on environmentally sensitive issues dealing with land use. Mr. Drogaris has served as a consultant to financial institutions
throughout the region to determine economic viability of questionable
properties.
Andres Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Andres Duany has been a founding partner of two very influential architecture firms: Arquitectonica and Duany Plater-Zyberk &
Company. With the latter firm, he has co-designed the towns of Seaside and Kentlands, along with more than 140 other
neighborhoods, towns, and cities. Duany has written a chapter of Architectural Graphic Standards and The Lexicon of the New
Urbanism. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami, has worked as visiting professor at many other institutions, and
teaches planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. DPZ has been the subject of over 800 articles and has received the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal of Architecture. Along with his B.Arch. from Princeton, his M.Arch from Yale, and his study at
the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Mr. Duany also holds two honorary doctorates.
Jason Duckworth, Vice President, Arcadia Land Company
Jason Duckworth is a Principal and Vice President of Arcadia Land
Company where he leads development efforts in Pennsylvania. Jason also
serves as the general manager of Bryn Eyre, a new town planned for
Morgantown, Pennsylvania.
Under Jason's leadership, Arcadia has been recognized three times by the
Delaware Valley Smart Growth Alliance for its walkable communities:
Sadsbury Park in Sadsburyville, Chester County, Bryn Eyre, and Dreycott
Lane in Haverford, Montgomery County. Arcadia's New Daleville
traditional neighborhood in Daleville, Chester County will be the
subject of the forthcoming book, Last Harvest, by noted author Witold
Rybczynski.
Prior to Arcadia, Jason had a career in private equity with Crosslink
Capital in San Francisco. Earlier, he was a management consultant with
McKinsey & Company in New York. He has an AB in Urban Studies from
Princeton University, where he was elected student body president and
named to Phi Beta Kappa, and an M.Litt. in geography from Oxford
University, England.
Outside of Arcadia, Jason is active in the Urban Land Institute, where
he is a member of the Residential Development Council. Jason is a
supporter of the Caring for Carcinoid Foundation and co-chairman of the
Congress for the New Urbanism's 2007 national conference to be held in
Philadelphia.
Jason resides in walkable Narberth, Pennsylvania with his wife, Angela,
and daughters, Amanda and Lucy.
Eric Dumbaugh, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Dr. Eric Dumbaugh joined the Texas A & M's Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning in the fall of 2006 as an assistant professor. He is an assistant
professor for the Master’s of Urban Planning program. Eric has had many publications, refereed conference proceedings, reports and monographs, presentations and
invited speaking engagements, funded research activities and consulting and professional service.
Some of Eric’s publications include “The Design of Safe Urban Roadsides: An Empirical Analysis;” “The Softer Side of Safety: Incorporating Behavioral Approaches to
Transportation Safety into the Transportation Planning Process;” and “Safe Streets, Livable Streets.”
Ph. D, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005; Master of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002;
M.S., Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002; B.A., English Literature, Florida State University, 1996...[more]
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).
Gonzalo Echeverria, Associate , Looney Ricks Kiss Architects
Gonzalo Echeverria is a project manager with LRK Architects in
Princeton NJ. Gonzalo has developed numerous master plans for cities,
towns and rural environments as well as designs for neighborhood
revitalization efforts based on a mixed-use, mixed-income model
throughout the USA and South America. He holds a degree in
Architecture and Graduate degree in Urban Economics from the
Ponticfia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and is a registered
architect in his native country. He also holds a Master's Degree in
Architecture, Suburb and Town Design from the University of Miami.
John Ellis, AIA, RIBA, Director of Urban Design, WRT/Solomon E.T.C.
Chad Emerson, Associate Professor of Law, Faulkner University Jones School of Law
Chad D. Emerson is an Associate Professor of Law at Faulkner University’s Jones School of Law. He joined the faculty in June 2003 after
practicing for over five years with the Knoxville, Tennessee law firm of Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC.
Professor Emerson is a graduate of David Lipscomb University and the University of Tennessee College of Law.
Professor Emerson is a frequent national lecturer and author in the field of land planning law with a specific emphasis on Smart Growth and
SmartCode legal issues. He is the administrator of the SmartCode Listserv and the author of smart growth articles including “Making Main
Street Legal Again” and “Smart Growth and Schools: Legal Hurdles and Legal Solutions for Community-Scale Schools”.
He is also the author of “The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl”—a recently released book from ELI Publishing.
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 design sustainble human environments, Farr Associate's
unique niche is in applying the principles of green building at the scale of the neighborhood and in designing green buildings
exclusively for urban contexts. Farr Associates also holds the unique distinction of being the only architecture firm in the world
that has designed two LEED-Platinum buildings: the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood
Technology. An architecture graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, Doug is on the board of the
Congress for New Urbanism and also chairs the LEED Neighborhood Development project, a first ever leadership standard for
sustainable land developments, about to enter its pilot phase. Farr Associates designs healthy and valuable places and
buildings for its private, not for profit and public sector clients. Having worked for John Vinci, Davis Brody and Paul Rudolph,
Farr's own work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, and Doug is a featured
speaker on an upcoming six-part PBS series on sustainability and green buildings.
Stephen Filmanowicz, Communications Director, Congress for New Urbanism
Lois Fisher, Principal, Fisher & Hall Urban Design
Robert Fishman, Professor , University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture
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."
RONALD LEE FLEMING, PRESIDENT, THE TOWNSCAPE INSTITUTE, AUTHOR, The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community
through Public
Art and Urban Design
Anthony Flint, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA; Author, This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and
the Future of America (Johns Hopkins University Press)
Anthony Flint, former reporter for The Boston Globe and author of This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America (Johns
Hopkins University Press), is currently at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, a think-tank for planning and development issues in
Cambridge, Mass. www.lincolninst.edu. His next book, on the clash of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, will be published by Random House in
2008.
Lisa M. Fontana Tierney, P.E., Technical Projects Senior Director, Institute of Transportation Engineers
Lisa Fontana Tierney received her Bachelors of Science in Civil and
Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University and a Masters of
Science in Urban Systems Engineering from George Mason University.
After graduating, Lisa spent three years working as a traffic engineer
for a transportation consulting engineering firm in Rochester, NY.
Following her work at the consulting firm she joined the Institute of
Transportation Engineers, a non-profit scientific and educational
association. Lisa has now been with ITE for 12 years and is currently
serving as the Traffic Engineering Senior Director. In her time with
ITE she has been actively involved in the development and dissemination
of several traffic engineering and safety resources including oversight
of development of the ITE/CNU recommended practice "Context Sensitive
Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable
Communities."
Michael Freedman, Principal, Freedman, Tung & Bottomley
John Fry, President, Franklin & Marshall College
John A. Fry became the 14th president of Franklin & Marshall College on July 1, 2002.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, he studied American Civilization at Lafayette College and received the George Wharton Pepper Prize, the highest honor awarded to a
graduating senior. In 1986, he earned a master's in business administration from the New York University Stern School of Business.
During his early professional life, Fry worked closely with some of the nation's premier colleges and universities, first with KPMG Peat Marwick in its educational
consulting practice, and then with Coopers & Lybrand's National Higher Education Consulting Practice, where he was elected a partner in the firm and eventually attained
the rank of partner-in-charge of the national practice.
In 1995, he became the executive vice president of the University of Pennsylvania. As chief operating officer of the university, he was responsible for finance, investments,
human resources, facilities and real estate, public safety, computing, technology transfer, corporate relations, auxiliary enterprises and internal audit and compliance.
At Penn, Fry helped develop and implement the university's "Agenda for Excellence," a comprehensive plan that guided the university's strategic initiatives from 1996 to
2001. One of the strategies that emerged from this plan was the development of Penn's nationally recognized neighborhood revitalization initiative for West Philadelphia.
Faced with significant crime rates, deteriorating housing stock, and a lack of commercial amenities, Fry built a coalition of non-profit, business, neighborhood and
governmental support for a multi-pronged strategy to address the key challenges facing the neighborhoods. In a comparatively short period of time, residential property
values have gone up significantly, the crime rate has been reduced by half, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in commercial infrastructure and
economic development.
President Fry is a member of the NCAA Division III Presidents Council and was recently elected as the new chair of the Council, effective January, 2007. He was appointed
by President George Bush to serve on the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission that is planning the celebration of Benjamin Franklin’s 300th birthday. In
November 2002, Fry was asked to serve as one of the co-chairs for the transition team of Governor-Elect Edward Rendell of Pennsylvania.
His civic activities include membership on the Haverford School Board of Trustees, Lancaster Alliance Board of Directors, the Lancaster General Hospital Board of
Directors, the Lancaster Country Day School Board of Trustees, and the James Street Improvement District, where he serves as Chair of the Board of Directors. He is also
a Director of Allied Barton Security Holdings, Community Health Systems, and Delaware Investments.
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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.
Saad Ghandour, Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment
Saad Ghandour is the Director of Projects & Practice department at The Prince’s Foundation. He manages a team of urban designers who work on the
Foundation’s Enquiry by Design projects as well as a growing portfolio of urban extensions, city centre restructuring strategies and other proposals for
environment-led regeneration.
Saad is currently actively involved in design work relating to the urban extension of Plymouth and the town centre regeneration of Lincoln.
Prior to joining the Foundation, Saad Ghandour worked with Alan Baxter and Associates as a senior urban designer where he was principally responsible
for developing detailed master planning, urban design and movement proposals for the Upton urban extension in Northampton with a particular emphasis
on the integration of movement into urban design. Saad worked extensively in the pioneering development of the Upton urban design codes.
Ray Gindroz, Chairman, Urban Design Associates
Co-founder and Chairman of UDA, Ray 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 as a tool for 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 vice 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.
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.”
Paul Gluck, Vice President and Station Manager , WHYY , Inc.
Paul Gluck is Vice President and Station Manager of WHYY, the Philadelphia region’s leading public broadcasting
station. Gluck, who was named to this post in September, 2000, is responsible for daily operations and all program
content and development for WHYY’s broadcast services, including radio, television and web.
Gluck joined the WHYY staff in 1999 as Executive Director of News and Public Affairs, and continues to oversee news
and public affairs programming. He is leading an effort to develop more local program content for WHYY that will
range from public affairs to cultural events, and from historical documentaries to community events. He also directs
all of WHYY’s content and broadcast resources, including producers and engineers in support of this operation.
Gluck began his career at KYW-TV as a production assistant. He was also employed as an executive producer at WJZ
in Baltimore, Md., then advanced to WCAU-TV in Philadelphia in 1988 as news director. Gluck returned to KYW-TV in
1991 as executive news editor and was promoted to news director in 1997, a position he held until September 1998.
Gluck, a multiple Emmy-award winner, has also produced documentaries and served as a consultant for local media
outlets. Gluck is a native of Philadelphia, having attended Community College of Philadelphia and receiving his
Bachelor’s degree in journalism from Temple 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
Alexander Gorlin, Principal Architect, Alexander Gorlin Architect
Alexander Gorlin, FAIA, opened his practice in 1987 after winning the Rome Prize in Architecture. Mr. Gorlin subsequently taught at the Cooper Union and the Yale
School of Architecture. His firm has won four American Institute of Architects Design Excellence Awards and an Honor Award from the Interfaith Forum on Religious Art
and Architecture. The Cooper Union presented Mr. Gorlin with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. Alexander Gorlin Architects does a wide range of work across
the United States, from residential design and urban planning to schools, religious architecture, affordable housing and housing for the homeless. Architectural Digest
named Alexander Gorlin one of the thirty American Deans of Design in 2005 and one of the Top 100 Architects in the United States for three years consecutively. His
designs for the World Trade Center site and memorial were published in The New York Times and exhibited at the Venice Architectural Bienalle. Projects have been
featured in Architectural Record, Interior Design and books such as Taschen’s Architecture Now 3 and American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish
Community. Gorlin is the subject of an architectural monograph, Alexander Gorlin: Buildings and Projects, with essays by Vincent Scully and Paul Goldberger. He is
author of The New American Townhouse and Creating the New American Town House (Rizzoli International 1999, 2005). Essays on architecture, art and film have
appeared in The New York Times, Architectural Record, and Oculus. His forthcoming book will explore relationships between the Kabbalah and modern architecture.
Vincent Graham, President, I'On Group
Vince is Founder and President of the I’On Group based in Charleston, South Carolina. Vince moved to the South Carolina Lowcountry in 1989. He founded the
traditional walking neighborhood of Newpoint in 1991. Since that time he has participated in building seven other neighborhoods including the Village of Port Royal,
Broad Street, I’On, Morris Square, Hammonds Ferry, and Mixson in South Carolina; and East Beach in Virginia. Vince serves on the Board of Charleston Moves, the
Coastal Conservation League, East Cooper Planning Council, Lowcountry Housing Trust, Riley Institute for Urban Affairs, and Upstate Forever. He also serves on the
Metropolitan Leadership Council of the Brookings Institution, is a South Carolina Liberty Fellow, and a member of the Church of the Holy Cross. Vince is a passionate
advocate for advancing human-scaled urbanism, and has spoken at architectural and planning symposiums in Australia, Europe, and throughout the United States. A
native of Atlanta, Georgia, Vince is a 1986 graduate of Thomas Jefferson’s wondrous University of Virginia.
Marshal Granor, Principal, Granor Price Homes
Mr. Granor is a principal in Granor Price Homes, a Pennsylvania and New Jersey real estate development company, and
holds Pennsylvania and New Jersey licenses as a real estate broker and title insurance agent, as well as being a licensed
Pennsylvania mortgage broker. Marshal practices law with the Horsham firm of Granor and Granor, P.C., concentrating
in the areas of real estate development, financing, and condominium and community association law. He was a principal
author of Pennsylvania's Uniform Planned Community Act. He is a member of the Montgomery, Pennsylvania and
American Bar Associations, and Community Associations Institute, currently serving on CAI's Builder Liaison Committee.
He frequently teaches continuing education courses about community associations for attorneys, real estate agents and title
insurance agents, as well as being an Adjunct Professor of Law at Manor College. He is Co-President of the Hebrew Free
Loan Society of Greater Philadelphia. Mr. Granor received his BA. from the University of Pennsylvania (Political Science)
and his J.D. from Temple University Law School.
David Grasso, President & CEO, Grasso Holdings
Ellen Greenberg, AICP
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.
Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President for Policy, Transportation and Community Development, Center for
Neighborhood Technology
Jacquelyne D. Grimshaw works with the Center for Neighborhood Technology in Chicago where she directs the center's
transportation and air quality program and is responsible for the center's research efforts, computer modeling programs, and
community development activities. She has extensive experience developing consensus in support of less-polluting
transportation options and initiating programs that assist the revitalization of inner-city neighborhoods. Grimshaw previously
served as the Deputy Director for Economic Development for the City of Chicago and worked for the Chicago Mayor's Office of
Intergovernmental Affairs. She is a member of the President's Council for Sustainable Development and the Advisory Board of
the Surface Transportation Policy Project. Grimshaw holds a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and attended the
Public Policy Institute at Governors State University.
Paul Gunther, President, Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America
Paul Gunther is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Classical
Architecture & Classical America, a newly-merged New York City-based
national educational and advocacy organization dedicated to the
Classical tradition in architecture and its allied arts. Paul has also
served as Vice President of Institutional Advancement for the New York
Historical Society.
Gary Hack, Dean, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Gary Hack teaches, practices, and studies large-scale physical planning and urban design. He is co-author of the third edition of Site Planning and Lessons from Local
Experiences, as well as numerous articles and chapters on the spatial environment of cities. Recently he was a member of the team that won the competition and prepared
the design guidelines for redeveloping the World Trade Center Site. He also co-directed an international comparative study of urbanization patterns on four continents,
published as “Global City Regions: A Comparative Perspective.” Professor Hack has prepared plans for over thirty cities in the United States and abroad, including the
redevelopment plan for the Prudential Center in Boston, the West Side Waterfront plan in New York City, and the new Metropolitan Plan for Bangkok, Thailand. He has
also worked with smaller communities on urban design issues by preparing downtown development guidelines for the center of Portland, Maine; design review manuals for
Hendersonville and Germantown, Tennessee; and guidelines for the development of the entrance corridors and downtown of Charlottesville, Virginia. Earlier in his career,
Professor Hack directed the Canadian government's housing and urban development research and demonstration programs, initiating several large neighborhood
demonstration projects and the redevelopment of urban waterfronts in a number of Canadian cities. He has also served as an urban design consultant for projects in Japan,
Taiwan, China and Saudi Arabia.
Dean Hack has served on the executive committee of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Planning Accreditation Board. He is a former chair of the
Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and is active in civic affairs in Philadelphia.
Laura Hall, Principal, Fisher & Hall Urban Design
Laura Hall is a principal with Fisher & Hall Urban Design of Santa
Rosa,
California. Her firm was founded in 1997 to promote the growing field
of New Urbanism, providing livable and intelligent alternatives to
auto-oriented sprawl. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley,
Hall has a strong interest in the social and psychological aspects of
community design.
Richard Hall, PE, President, Hall Planning & Engineering
Steven
Hammond, Principal, Wallace Roberts and Todd
Steve is director of Planning for WRT’s San Francisco office. An urban planner, Steve’s master planning experience has focused on large areas
with complex mixed-use programs and sensitive environmental constraints. His background in landscape architecture reinforces his ability to
help clients create a policy framework that guides effective growth in the built environment. Committed to the principles of Smart Growth and
sustainability, Steve is adept at helping communities create a rational means of balancing development and land conservation objectives.
Seth Harry
, AIA, CNU, President, Seth Harry & Associates, Inc.
Seth Harry is a licensed architect with over twenty years of experience
in the design, master planning, and implementation of TNDs, large-scale
mixed-use developments, urban entertainment projects, waterfront
destination shopping, dining and entertainment complexes.
Prior to founding Seth Harry and Associates, Inc., in 1992, Mr. Harry
was Design Director for the late James Rouse’s Enterprise Development
Company where he contributed to many successful retail and
entertainment development projects in Japan, Australia, Ireland and
the United States.
Recent projects include a variety of mixed-use, town center, greenfield
and infill projects in Tennessee, New Jersey, California, Guatemala, El
Salvador, and New Zealand.
James E. Hartling, Partner, Urban Partners
James E. Hartling is the founding partner of Urban Partners, a Center City-based professional consulting firm that assists public, non-profit and private
clients in the planning and implementation of urban development projects. Mr. Hartling has more than thirty years of experience in city planning and community and
economic development, locally and throughout the country. Prior to founding Urban Partners, Mr. Hartling served as Deputy Director of Economic Development of
Philadelphia’s Community Development program and was a faculty member at the University of Texas, teaching in both the
graduate planning and public affairs programs. Mr. Hartling is a lecturer at the Fels Center of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and is also the author and
editor of numerous articles and papers on urban planning and community development.
Susan Henderson, Architect, PlaceMakers LLC
Susan Henderson is PlaceMakers' Director of Design and Project
Management specialist. She was the Architectural Team Leader for the
Mississippi Renewal Forum, and continues to lead architectural
efforts on the Gulf Coast. Susan co-authored "Traditional
Construction Patterns," a McGraw-Hill publication. A LEED Accredited
Professional, she graduated cum laude from Ball State University with
degrees in Architecture and Environmental Design. Susan contributed
to the Gulfport SmartCode that was adopted in February 2007 as a
parallel code city-wide.
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.
Daniel Hernandez, Principal, Topology, LLC
Daniel Hernandez is a managing member of Topology, LLC, a development and real estate consulting firm. He is a developer, city planner and architect with more than 20
years of experience completing mid- and large-scale, mixed-use, multi-phased, urban development projects in collaboration with public partners. He recently lead the
development and community revitalization studio for Jonathan Rose Companies, and is responsible for the design, financial analysis, and development of numerous
affordable and mixed-income housing projects and community development planning efforts in New Jersey and Connecticut. Mr. Hernandez managed two neighborhood
revitalization projects in New Haven, Connecticut. The Easton Row project involves the design and construction of 30 environmentally-friendly, affordable homes and a
new tree-lined boulevard in one of New Haven’s poorest downtown neighborhoods. The other, West Rock, involves the replacement of poorly designed, isolated, outdated
public housing units with a traditional neighborhood of mixed-income homes and apartments, and shops, civic spaces, and restored parkland. Mr. Hernandez recently
completed one of the nation’s premier urban redevelopment projects in the City of Elizabeth, New Jersey, revitalizing a low-income port neighborhood into a mixed-income,
vibrant community. Mr. Hernandez completed his studies for a Masters degree in architecture from UCLA and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
Mr. Hernandez was a senior project manager with Jonathan Rose Companies, a development firm based in New York City, and continues to consult with the firm. Prior to
moving to New York, Mr. Hernandez was the Executive Director of Mission Housing, one of the nation’s leading non-profit affordable housing development corporations in
San Francisco. Mr. Hernandez has taught architecture and neighborhood design at the California College of the Arts and Crafts, and lectures widely on community
development and smart growth planning.
Mr. Hernandez has extensive experience in financing complex development projects, securing funds for large-scale redevelopment projects, project design, and community
planning, and environmental design and traditional neighborhood development approaches to urban revitalization.
Thaddeus Herrick, National Correspondent, Wall Street Journal
Thaddeus Herrick has covered real estate, oil and chemicals for the Wall Street Journal, where he has worked as a national correspondent since 2000. Prior to that he was
San Antonio bureau chief for the Houston Chronicle, political writer for the Rocky Mountain News and Mexico City bureau chief for Scripps Howard Newspapers. He is
the recipient of a Knight Fellowship at Stanford University and a Luce Scholarship.
Paul M. Hirshorn, AIA, Head of the Department of Architecture, Drexel University
Paul Hirshorn has been the Head of the Department of Architecture since 1986, and a member of the faculty since 1974 - an adjunct professor until appointed Department
Head in 1986. Under his leadership the Department launched the unique 2+ 4 Option, added Summer Study Tours in Rome and Paris, and the Arfaa Lecture Series in
Architecture. From 1977 to 1986 he also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was in private practice. Previously he had worked for the Philadelphia firms of
Venturi & Rauch and Ueland & Junker. He is the co-author of White Towers, a study of signs and symbolism in commercial vernacular architecture. He earned BA, M.
Arch. and MCP degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in Architecture from Cambridge University where he studied as a Thouron Scholar from 1964 to
1967. He served as a Director of AIA Philadelphia from 1991 to 1993 and has been the chairman of the Architectural Review Committee of the City of Camden since 1987.
In 1990 Professor Hirshorn received the Joseph S. Mozino Award for service to evening students and was the Stanley J. Gwiazda Professor for 1996-97.
Wesley R. Horner, AICP, Prinicipal Planner, Cahill Associates
Mr. Horner has 30 years of experience in environmental planning and management, with specialization in all aspects of water resources in both
the private and public sectors. Prior to returning to Cahill Associates in 2001 and serving as project manager for PADEP’s new stormwater
BMP manual, he served as Associate Director of the Brandywine Conservancy’s Environmental Management Center and directed the
Municipal Assistance Program and was responsible for the Water Based Land Use Regulation program. With particular emphasis on
stormwater management from a land planning perspective, he directed preparation of a major manual for the State of Delaware, Conservation
Design for Stormwater Management, targeting low impact development and conservation-oriented practices for new land development. At
Cahill, he has been a principal designer of the Sustainable Watershed Management Plan and Program for Northern Chester County. His other
experience covers numerous environmental impact projects and studies across the country, including a range of wastewater treatment system,
transportation system, and other major proposed actions. At Cahill, he developed the concept of “Minimum Disturbance/Minimum
Maintenance,” a non-structural approach to stormwater management that minimizes the impact of land development at a the site. Mr. Horner
received his Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 1975, his undergraduate degree from
Haverford College, and is registered in the American Institute of Certified Planners.
Tom Hylton, President , Save Our Land, Save Our Towns
Thomas Hylton, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from Pennsylvania, is author of a color coffee table book called Save Our Land, Save Our Towns and host
of a public television documentary