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CNU 18 Speakers
Heather Alhadeff, AICP, Assistant Director, City of Atlanta, Bureau of Planning
John Anderson, Principal, Anderson Kim Architecture + Urban Design
M. Scott Ball, Senior Project Manager, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Currently based in New Orleans, Scott Ball is an architect and Senior Project Manager for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company’s Gulf Coast projects and initiatives. Previous to his work with DPZ, Scott worked on numerous hurricane recovery housing efforts, including assisting with the creation Louisiana’s Road Home and Mississippi’s Home Again programs. While the Executive Director of the Community Housing Resource Center in Atlanta, Scott focused on the integration of design services into community development efforts and concentrated on needs of older, long-term homeowners in a rapidly gentrifying city. Scott also oversaw the design and construction of over $10,000,000 in development, and led the growth of the firm from $130,000 to $2 million in annual revenue. This work resulted in the development of housing support programs that serve over 1,000 seniors each year. Scott is a trained architect who has worked and managed numerous projects across the United States.
Lyyne Barker, Program Director, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives-Local Governments for Sustainability (Respondent)
Laurie F. Beck, MPH, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Richard Bernhardt, Executive Director, Metropolitan Planning Department Nashville-Davidson County
A town planner for over 35 years, Rick Bernhardt 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 change the livability of a community through community-wide and project specific master plans and regulatory tools. Currently a board member of the Form-Based Code Institute, his recent work has been in the development of a process to create
form-based general 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, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Scott leads Center for Neighborhood Technology’s work to understand and better disclose the economic value of resource use in urban communities, and helps craft strategies to capture the value of this efficiency productively and locally.
He studied at Northwestern University, served on the research staff of its Center for Urban Affairs, taught at UCLA and was a founding Board member at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Center. President Clinton appointed Scott to the President’s Council for Sustainable Development, where he co-chaired its task forces on Metropolitan Sustainable Communities and on Cross-Cutting Climate Strategies and to other Federal advisory panels on global warming, development strategy, and science policy. He helped write a climate change strategy for the 1st 100 days of the new Administration. Scott is a Fellow of the Center for State Innovation, works with governors, mayors and metropolitan organizations across the U.S., and most recently helped create the Chicago Climate Action Plan at the request of Mayor Richard M. Daley. CNT is a signer of the Charter of the New Urbanism and Scott is a member of the Urban History Association, which includes urbanists old and new.
Vickie Boothe, EE, MPH, Health Scientist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ms. Boothe is a health scientist and environmental engineer with more than 23 years experience working in the public health and environmental fields. Currently, she serves as a Health Scientist in the Epidemiology and Analysis Program Office where she coordinates CDC’s activities in support of the County Health Rankings initiative and leads a multidisciplinary team charged with conducting a meta-analysis of the 148 published studies on health effects associated with proximity to traffic emissions. Previously, she served as the Healthy Communities Assistant Goal Team Leader where she led the development of CDC’s Healthy Transportation Initiative (HTI). The HTI is collaborative effort designed to holistically address transportation-related air pollution health effects, climate change emissions, motor vehicle injuries, and physical inactivity by encouraging healthy transportation choices in built and social environments that make those choices safe and easy.
Previous positions at CDC include serving as an environmental engineer in the Environmental Health Tracking Branch of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH). There, she led a multiagency, multidisciplinary collaborative team including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and three state health departments that developed the methods, tools, and data so that state and local health departments could easily assess the public health impact of exposures to air pollution. She also served in NCEH’s Veterans’ Health Activity, providing technical advice on Gulf War and Vietnam-related studies, and at ATSDR as a health assessor on Department of Energy sites.
From 1986 until November of 2000, Ms. Boothe worked in EPA Region 9 and the Office of Air Quality, Planning and Standards where she developed and implemented national regulations for the control of criteria pollutants and air toxics. Her last position at EPA was in Office of Planning, Analysis, and Accountability where she was the National Lead for strategic planning for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation and the Office of International Activities, as well as EPA’s national coordinator for Healthy People 2010.
Ms. Boothe has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor’s Degree in Management/Marketing and a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from Georgia State University.
Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Urban & Landscape Design
Stephanie Bothwell, ASLA, Principal, Urban and Landscape Design, is an expert on the creation of sustainable and beautiful open spaces and is located in the District of Columbia. She consults regularly for organizations on the relationship between traditional neighborhood design and life-long health through activity-friendly environments. Her design consulting includes the redevelopment of a brownfield site to create the new town, East Beach, in Norfolk, Virginia and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in DC.
She formerly established and was Director of the American Institute of Architects' Center for Livable Communities. Prior to that, she was Senior Landscape Architect for the City of Boston.
Ms. Bothwell is on the Executive Board of the Congress for the New Urbanism, founded CNUDC and participates on the Casey Tree Foundation Technical Advisory Committee. Her writing and other work appear in various publications, and she co-authored The Windsor Forum on Design Education.
Since receiving her Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she has served on the faculties of Auburn University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Radcliffe College, and the Boston Architectural Center.
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.
Charles Brewer
Experienced entrepreneur, founder and CEO of MindSpring Enterprises. MindSpring grew to be one of the largest Internet service providers in the country; philanthropic
Chris Brewster, Associate Vice President, Gould Evans Associates (Health & State Enabling Statutes)
shaunna burbidge, PHD, Department of Health Promotion and Education & the Department of City & Metropolitan Planning, University of Utah (How Public Health Officials Can Measure Codes for Promoting Health)
Dr. Burbidge received her PhD from the University of California Santa Barbara in Geography emphasizing transportation studies in 2008. She holds an M.A. from that same program and two undergraduate degrees from Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) in History and Geography- with an emphasis in urban planning. In addition to her appointment in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning she has held affiliated positions in the Department of Health Promotion and Education, and Geography, Her background as a behavioral scientist has allowed her to work extensively in travel behavior data analysis and travel survey development, also utilizing her technical specialization in econometrics and multivariate modeling. Her current research foci include modeling the connection between the built environment and public health, active modes of transportation (walking and biking), Safe Routes to School policies, integrative community health, and other travel behavior topics.
Shaunna currently serves as an article reviewer for multiple journals and recently served as a co-editor updating the Transportation Research Board’s Travel Survey Methods Manual. In the community Dr. Burbidge is as a board member of Be Healthy Utah (formerly the Utah Partnership for a Healthy Weight) where she chairs the Active Communities Workgroup and serves as a member of the Research Council.
Dr. Burbidge was recognized as a 2006 Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Transportation Fellow (administered by the Federal Highway Administration-2006), and subsequently received the University of California Transportation Center’s Dissertation Fellowship Award (2007). She is a past recipient of the George Smeath Student Planner Award, and also received an “Excellence in Plan Development Award” from the Utah Chapter of the American Planning Association (2007). In 2009 Dr. Burbidge received the “Translating Research to Policy” Award from the Active Living Research arm of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; and was also a finalist for the Association of American Geographers’ Nystrom Award for best dissertation in Geography.
David Byrne, Musician
David
Byrne
is
a
musician,
visual
ar2st,
filmmaker
and
cycling
enthusiast.
A
co-‐founder
of
the
band
Talking
Heads,
he
has
also
released several
solo
albums
and
garnered
an
Academy
Award
for
his
score
to
Bernardo
Bertolucci’s
film
“The
Last
Emperor.”
His
art
includes
photography
and
installa2on
works,
and
has
been
published
in
five
books,
most
recently
Arboretum.
His
latest
projects
include
“Here
Lies
Love”,
a
musical
collabora2on
with
Fatboy
Slim
invoking
the
life
of
Imelda
Marcos;
a
travelogue
en2tled
“Bicycle
Diaries”;
and
“Everything
That
Happens
Will
Happen
Today,”
Byrne’s
second
album
with
Brian
Eno.
Last
year,
he
designed
a
series
of
ar2s2c
bike
racks
to
be
installed
throughout
New
York
City.
Mr.
Byrne
has
had
the
opportunity
to
submerse
himself
in
numerous
cultural
backgrounds,
enjoying
his
experience
from
a
cyclist
perspec2ve
as
chronicled
in
his
new
book
en2tled
"Bicycle
Diaries."
Along
with
the
array
of
David’s
interests,
his
enthusiasm
for
traveling,
bicycling
and
observing
the
urban
fabric
imparts
awareness
and
invokes
urgency
for
bringing
about
pedestrian
geared
change in
an
increasingly
vehicular
dependent
society.
Through
his
convic2on
of
the
importance
of
alterna2ve
modes
of
transporta2on,
pedestrian
scaled
urban
development,
his
thoughts
on
fashion,
architecture,
cultural
isola2on,
music
and
art,
David’s
advocacy
for
urban
place
making
and
design
is
well-‐versed,
passionate
and
crea2ve.
Peter Calthorpe, author, CNU co-founder, and leading regional and community planner, Calthorpe Associates
A co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a Principal at Calthorpe Associates, Peter Calthorpe is a remarkably influential voice in the worlds of planning and sustainability, advancing the new urbanist vision that successful places—whether neighborhoods, villages, or urban centers— must be diverse in use and user, walkable and transit-oriented, and environmentally sustainable. His work has focused on how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth.
Calthorpe remains one of the most sought after coordinators of regional planning. In Austin and other cities, he is lending his expertise on integrating transit-oriented development (TOD) into regional growth plans, bringing mass transit to the forefront of city development. His firm Calthorpe Associates is responsible for major regional design projects in Portland, Salt Lake, the Twin Cities, and Los Angeles. Calthorpe is now the Lead Planner for the “Louisiana Speaks” planning initiative, and his firm is helping advise the Louisiana Recovery Authority on how southern Louisiana can recover from Hurricane Katrina while restoring wetlands and other ecologically sensitive areas.
During the Clinton Administration, Calthorpe provided guidance for HUD's Empowerment Zone and Consolidated Planning Programs as well as the HOPE VI program to rebuild failed public housing projects. His international work has demonstrated that community design with a focus on environmental sustainability and human scale can be adapted throughout the globe.
Calthorpe has written influential works such as Sustainable Communities with Sim Van der Ryn, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream. His latest book, The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl with William Fulton, explains how regional-scale planning and design can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth.
A past student of the Yale School of Architecture, Calthrope has taught at U.C. Berkeley, University of Washington, University of Oregon, and University of North Carolina. Calthorpe has received numerous honors and awards, including appointment to the President's Councils for Sustainable Development and, most recently, the Urban Land Institute’s JC Nichols Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
DeWayne Carver, Senior Project Manager, Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc
DeWayne Carver, AICP, CNU, is a transportation planner with Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc (HPE.) DeWayne is also a League Cycling Instructor (LCI) certified by the League of American Bicyclists, and a bike commuter and tourist. DeWayne's professional practice includes transportation planning and street design for New Urbanist projects, including new towns as well infill and greyfield redevelopment.
jim constantine, Looney Ricks Kiss
Jim joined Looney Ricks Kiss in 1998 as the director of planning and research for the Princeton office. With expertise in urban design, master planning, historic preservation, community relations and qualitative research, Jim oversees planning and community relations for numerous Smart Growth, Traditional Neighborhood Development and New Urbanism projects. He has worked as a licensed professional planner in more than 25 states and Canada. Jim is a Rutgers University graduate and resides in Princeton.
Richard Jackson, Environmental Health Sciences
Richard J. Jackson has done extensive work in the impact of the environment on health, particularly relating to children. Dr. Jackson chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health. He did extensive work on pesticides in California, and has also focused on epidemiology, infectious diseases and toxicology. Over the past decade much of his work has focused on how the 'built environment' including how architecture and urban planning affect health. He recently served on the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects and has written and spoken extensively in the above areas. Currently, Dr. Jackson working on policy analyses of environmental impacts on health ranging from toxicology, chemical body burdens, terrorism, sustainability, climate change, urban design and architecture. In addition, he is developing policy analyses in related areas, such as how farm, education, housing, and transportation policies affect health.
William de St. Aubin, Sizemoregroup
Bill Dennis, B. Dennnis Town and Building Design
Bill Dennis attained his professional Degree in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati and has practiced as an architect and planner since 1979. He is a charter member of The Congress for the New Urbanism and board member of New England CNU. He has also served as the director of the CNU Council for housing and codes in Sant Fe and team leader for the Governor’s Katrina Commission for Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Mr. Dennis has designed more than 120 New Urbanist neighborhoods, villages and towns, as well as all housing types, retail, office and civic buildings. His most significant projects in the last 25 years have been collaborated with such noted design firms as Moule & Polyzoides as well as Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Placemakers, Mr. Dennis has vast experience in forming and running complete teams of talented consultants for design charrettes to working on plans and buildings on his own. Mr. Dennis is a proud recipient of CNU awards for his Crewkerne, England; Dona Ana, New Mexico and Rio Nuevo, Arizona projects.
Howard Frumkin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Howard Frumkin, Special Assistant to the CDC Director for Climate Change and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He is an internist, environmental and occupational medicine specialist, and epidemiologist. Before joining the CDC in September, 2005, Dr. Frumkin was Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Emory Medical School. He founded and directed Emory’s Environmental and Occupational Medicine Consultation Clinic and the Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit. Currently serving on the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Dr. Frumkin’s interests include public health aspects of urban sprawl and the built environment; air pollution; metal and PCB toxicity; climate change; health benefits of contact with nature; and environmental and occupational health policy, especially regarding minority workers and communities, and those in developing nations. He is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific journal articles and chapters, and his books include Urban Sprawl and Public Health (Island Press, 2004, co-authored with Larry Frank and Dick Jackson; named a Top Ten Book of 2005 by Planetizen, the Planning and Development Network), Emerging Illness and Society (Johns Hopkins Press, 2004, co-edited with Randall Packard, Peter Brown, and Ruth Berkelman), Environmental Health: From Global to Local (Jossey-Bass, 2005; winner of the Association of American Publishers 2005 Award for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Publishing in Allied/Health Sciences), Safe and Healthy School Environments (Oxford University Press, 2006, co-edited with Leslie Rubin and Robert Geller), and Green Healthcare Institutions: Health, Environment, and Economics (National Academies Press, 2007, co-authored with Christine Coussens). Dr. Frumkin received his A.B. from Brown University, his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, his M.P.H. and Dr.P.H. from Harvard, his Internal Medicine training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Cambridge Hospital, and his Occupational Medicine training at Harvard. He is Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Hank Dittmar, Chief Executive, The Prince's Foundation
Hank Dittmar has been Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment since 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 founder 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, Transport and Neighbourhoods, was published as part of the Edge Futures series in 2008. He resides in London, England.
James Dougherty, Director of Design, Dover, Kohl & Partners
James Dougherty, AICP, CNU, ASAI is the Director of Design at Dover, Kohl & Partners, an internationally- recognized town planning and urban design practice based in Coral Gables, Florida. James began working with Dover, Kohl in 1996 and has since participated in over 100 charrettes within the United States and abroad. James works closely with Victor Dover and Joe Kohl to establish the design direction of projects in the office. He participates in all aspects of the office’s projects including public involvement, development of master plans, regulating plans and form-based codes. He creates many of the office’s three-dimensional illustrations using a blend of hand-drawn and computer techniques.
Andrés Duany, Principal, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). DPZ is widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. In the years since the firm first received recognition for the design of Seaside, Florida, in 1980, DPZ has completed designs for close to 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. This work has exerted a significant influence on the practice and direction of urban planning and development in the United States and abroad.
The firm’s method of integrating planning with accompanying design codes is being applied in towns and cities for sites ranging from 10 to over 500,000 acres throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. DPZ has received numerous awards, including two State of Florida Governor’s Urban Design Awards for Excellence. Seaside has been documented in over 800 articles and books and was described by Time Magazine as “the most astounding design achievement of its era.” The projects of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company have focused international attention on urbanism and its postwar decline. DPZ was instrumental in the creation of the Traditional Neighborhood Development Ordinance (TND), a prescription for pedestrian-oriented, mixed-use, compact urban growth, which has been incorporated into the zoning codes of municipalities across the country. The firm has developed a comprehensive municipal zoning ordinance called the SmartCode, prescribing appropriate urban arrangement for all uses and all densities.
Andrés Duany has delivered hundreds of lectures and seminars, addressing architects, planning groups, university students, and the general public. His recent publications include The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream. He is a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Established in 1993 with the mission of reforming urban growth patterns, the Congress has been characterized by The New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.”
Andrés received his undergraduate degree in architecture and urban planning from Princeton University, and after a year of study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, he received a master’s
Ellen Dunham-Jones, Director of the Architecture Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
Ellen Dunham-Jones is an award-winning architect and Director of the Architecture Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she teaches contemporary architectural theory and design. An advocate for alternatives to urban sprawl, she lectures widely on sustainable urban design and theory. As co-author with June Williamson of Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs (Wiley & Sons, 2008) her work has received significant media attention in the New York Times, CNN-Money.com, Newsweek.com, and Metropolismag. com. She has published over 50 articles including pieces in Harvard Design Magazine, Places, Design Book Review, and Lotus International; as well as chapters in The Green Braid, Writing Urbanism, New Urbanism and Beyond, Sprawl and Suburbia, What People Want, Worlds Away, The Windsor Forum on Design Education, and Dimensions of Sustainability. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism, the editorial board of the Journal of Urbanism, the advisory board of the Phoenix Urban Research Lab and the executive boards of ULI-Atlanta and CNU-Atlanta. In 2004, she made the DesignIntelligence Honor Roll as one of 30 leaders bridging practice and education and In 2006-7 she was the Ax:son Johnson Institute guest professor at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Princeton University and taught at UVA and MIT before joining Georgia Tech’s faculty in 2001.
Geoff Dyer, Director of Canadian Operations, PlaceMakers, LLC; Principal and Urban Designer, T-Six Urbanists Inc, Placemakers LLC
Geoff Dyer is a senior urban designer and principal for Calgary-based T-Six Urbanists Inc., and a partner and director with U.S.-based Placemakers LLC. Geoff has gained considerable international experience with some of North America's foremost urban design firms and world renowned urban designers. He undertakes progressive planning and form-based codes projects throughout North America using the Transect-based SmartCode regulatory system. Geoff holds a Master in Urban Design from the University of Calgary, is a Knight Fellow in Community Building from the University of Miami, and was a CNU Charter Award recipient in 2005.
Philip Erickson, AIA, President, Community Design + Architecture
Philip Erickson, AIA is an architect, urban designer, and planner with over 20 years of experience in the integration land use and transportation patterns, neighborhood and community planning, and economic and social sustainability. The scale of his work, throughout the United States, ranges from definition of region to the detail of place-making. A primary focus of Phil’s practice is in the reshaping and revitalization of older strip-commercial arterial streets into mixed-use corridors that provide opportunities for shopping, employment, and housing in a more pedestrian-friendly and transit-oriented environment following the principles of the New Urbanism. This is work is two-fold. One element is focused on the redesign of these auto-oriented streets into multi-modal thoroughfares, while on the other hand working with communities to establish plans for changing land use patterns and revitalizing these corridors to be vibrant parts of the city. CD+A has worked on corridors around major arterials, including state and federal highways, in several Bay Area communities, Seattle, Upstate New York, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Tucson, Arizona. Phil was the lead urban design contributor to the recently published ITE Proposed Recommended Practice – Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities. Phil also led CD+A’s in preparing the San Francisco Streetscape Master Plan, this work utilized urban design, landscape design, and green stormwater management strategies to create guidance for remaking San Francisco’s streets to serve integrated transportation and infrastructure functions while allowing for the realization of streets as a key civic space for all San Franciscans.
Phil is a licensed architect in California with Masters Degrees in City and Regional Planning and Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently the President of the AIA East Bay Chapter and is also a member of the following organizations: the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Urban Land Institute, TransForm (Advisory Council Member), and the Institute of Transportation Engineers.
Doug Farr, President and Founding Principal, Farr Associates Architecture & Urban Design
Doug Farr, AIA is the founding principal of Farr Associates, an award-winning architecture and planning firm identified by the New York Times as “the most prominent of the city’s growing cadre of ecologically sensitive architects.” Having a mission to design sustainable human environments, Farr’s niche is in applying the principles of LEED at the scale of the neighborhood and in designing green buildings exclusively for urban contexts. Farr Associates was the first firm in the world to design three LEED-Platinum buildings (Christy Webber Landscapes, the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology), which stand as models of urban architectural sustainability. An architecture graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, Doug’s work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and the PBS documentary “The Green Machine.” Doug is on the board of the Congress for the New Urbanism, serves on the BioRegional Development Group board of directors, on the Energy and Climate TAC of the Star Community Index, and was the founding chair of the LEED Neighborhood Development project (LEED-ND). Based on the firm’s pioneering sustainable design practice and his insights gained from chairing LEED-ND, Doug authored Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature. This planning best seller visualizes Sustainable Urbanism—the growing sustainable design convergence that integrates walkable and transit-served urbanism with high-performance
infrastructure and buildings—as the normal pattern of development in the United States by 2030.
Lawrence Frank, Ph.D., AICP, CIP, ASLA, Bombardier Chair in Sustainable Urban Transportation Systems, Institute for Resource and Environment, University of British Columbia
Dr. Frank is the Bombardier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation at the University of British Columbia, Senior Non-resident Fellow of the Brookings Institution, and President of Urban Design 4 Health. He specializes in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality; and health and the fuel consumption and climate change impacts of urban form policies. He has been studying the effects of neighborhood walkability on travel patterns and sustainability for 20 years. Dr. Frank works directly with local governments to help translate results from research into practice based tools that provide direct feedback on the health and environmental impacts of alternative transportation and land development proposals.
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.
Robert Gibbs, President, Gibbs Planning Group
Robert Gibbs is considered a leading urban planning consultant by some of the most respected mayors, architects and shopping center developers in America. Profiled in the Atlantic Monthly, Consumers Reports, New York Times, Urban Land Institute, and The Wall Street Journal, Gibbs is said to have “an urban planning sensibility unlike anything possessed by the urban planners who usually design downtown renewal efforts.” Charleston 's Mayor Joseph P. Riley describes Gibbs's work as “the Bible for the future of our historic district.” During the past twenty years, Gibbs has been active in developing innovative yet practical methods for applying current trends in residential and commercial development to more than 300 town centers and historic cities across North America, the Pacific Rim and Caribbean. Gibbs has been consulted on almost every new American town center constructed during the past 15 years and has taught an executive Urban Retail Planning session at Harvard's School of Architecture for the past 12 years. Gibbs has consulted for the cities of: Atlanta, Cambridge, Charleston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Miami, Naples, Portland and Seattle. Gibbs has also consulted with many new urban towns including: Alys Beach, Kentlands, Rosemary Beach and Seaside. A speaker at the First Congress of the New Urbanism in 1992 and six other CNU's, Mr. Gibbs has been a pioneer and leader in this movement to revive the community- oriented principles of traditional Town Planning and Smart Growth as an antidote to the alienating, formless sprawl of suburbia. Leading clients have included: Calthorpe Associates, Charleston, Cambridge, Chicago, Domino's Farms, Duany Plater-Zyberk, Kentlands, Electronic Data Systems, General Motors, Simon Properties, the States of Florida and Oregon and The Taubman Company. Before establishing GPG, Gibbs spent a dozen years gaining invaluable expertise in retail planning by advising strip-center and shopping mall developers on the psychology of commerce – the practical science of analyzing and adjusting all elements known to affect a shopper's mood in the marketplace. From this experience. Gibbs distilled many retail and merchandising principles for reviving retail in moribund downtowns and for instilling successful commerce in new ones. The purpose of these prescriptions is not to turn existing or planned main streets into malls, but to give merchants on the street the same competitive advantage that those in the most profitable shopping centers enjoy. Mr. Gibbs and his wife Elizabeth have been married for 25 years and have two active teenage boys. The family resides in Birmingham, Michigan, a 19th century model for the new urbanism. Gibbs is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and a charter member of the Congress for New Urbanism and has a Masters degree from the University of Michigan.
Lucy Gibson, Principal, Smart Mobility, Inc.
Lucy Gibson is a traffic engineer and transportation planner with her Vermont-based, firm, Smart Mobility. She works in New England and across the country assisting local and regional governments and organizations in planning efforts to create more multi-modal transportation systems to serve more sustainable communities. She has worked on a number of projects involving the re-design or scaling down of major freeways or arterials across the country, Her practice focuses on using sound engineering principals, appropriately applied to urban settings, and has contributed to many successful outcomes of context-sensitive transportation designs.
Charles Green, Health Communication Specialist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Charles Green, MA, MFA is a Health Communication Specialist for the Healthy Community Design Initiative in CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH), Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services. A 23-year veteran in health communications, Mr. Green has been with CDC for more than 10 years. He served as campaign manager for CDC’s award-winning Choose Your Cover skin cancer education campaign, and Team Lead for NCEH/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry’s Office of Communication Science. Charles’s awards include Public Relations Society of America’s Golden Anvil and Outstanding Young Professional Awards, CDC Communications Roundtable Award, and CDC’s NCEH/ATSDR Honors Awards. He is a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), is the first CNU-accredited New Urbanist by the University of Miami School Of Architecture and is local executive co-chair for CNU 18’s “New Urbanism: Rx for Healthy Places”
David Green, Georgia Tech/Lord Aeck Sargent Architecture
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, air quality and community development programs and is responsible for the center's research in these areas. She developed the Center's capacity to conduct computer modeling programs and community development activities. She has extensive experience developing consensus in support of less-polluting transportation options and initiating programs that assist the revitalization of inner-city neighborhoods. Grimshaw previously served as the Deputy Director for Economic Development for the Treasurer of the City of Chicago and directed the Chicago Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. She was a member of the President's Council for Sustainable Development's Energy and Transportation Task Force and the Advisory Board of the Surface Transportation Policy Project. Grimshaw holds a bachelor's degree from Marquette University and completed graduate studies in Public Policy at Governors State University.
Kenneth J. Groves, AICP, Director, Planning & Development, City of Montgomery,
Alabama
Laura Hall, Principal, Hall Alminana, Inc.
Laura Hall is a founding principal of Hall Alminana Inc., a firm in San Francisco that provides participatory planning, coding and design services to communities and developers. A graduate of UC, Berkeley, Ms. Hall has a strong background and practice in the social and cultural aspects of urban design. Her humanistic approach to planning ensures that community processes are kind and equitable. Ms. Hall helped craft one of the first adopted SmartCodes in the nation, in Petaluma, California, and she has worked extensively with the hurricane-damaged communities of Pass Christian and Gulfport on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Ari Heckman, Development Director, Cayuga Capital Management
Scott Holmes, Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Dept. Lincoln, NE
Marlon Hunter, Administrator-Health Officer, Gadsden County Health Department, Florida Department of Health
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Peter Katz, Director, Smart Growth and Urban Planning, Sarasota County, FL
Peter Katz
Author and consultant Peter Katz has been a leading proponent of the New Urbanism since 1990. He played a key role in shaping the movement as founding executive director of the Congress for the New Urbanism. During his tenure, CNU drafted its charter and entered into a strategic relationship with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Katz is the author of The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, published by McGraw-Hill in 1993. He was a co-editor of the Ahwahanee Principles, a seminal statement of sustainable development practices, issued by the Local Government Commission in 1991. Katz was the founding president of the Form-Based Codes Institute and serves on its board of directors. He is a member of the board of advisors of the National Charrette Institute.
Peter Katz is the director of Smart Growth and Urban Planning for Sarasota County, Florida. He also provides consulting services in the areas of New Urbanism implementation, strategic marketing and community development.
Marina Khoury, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company
Marina Khoury is an expert in sustainable urbanism, TND's and form-based codes and speaks on issues related to creating affordable, sustainable, walkable communities. A licensed architect, she is a Partner at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ) and the Director of Town Planning who leads the metro Washington D.C. office. Khoury manages new towns and urban redevelopment plans in the United States, Canada, Middle East and Europe. She is also the DPZ project director for Miami 21, an initiative which is rewriting the City of Miami's current zoning code into the largest-known application of a form-based code.
Kevin Klinkenberg, Principal, 180 Degrees Design Studio
Kevin Klinkenberg has dedicated his career to the building of great places. A Fellow with the Knight Program in Community Building through the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1997, he seeks practical applications for TND techniques in projects of all scales, from individual sites to neighborhoods to entire regions.
With 15 years of professional experience, including participation on charrettes with many of the founders of the CNU, Mr. Klinkenberg has become a regional authority on planning and urban design, sitting on committees for the Mid America Regional Council, the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City,and the Housing Choices Coalition. He is a frequent speaker on urban design, and in 2003 wrote a column for the Kansas City Star under "Midwest Voices". His volunteer activities include serving on the board of CUBE (Center for Understanding the Built Environment), AIA/Kansas City and the Urban Society of Kansas City. Kevin is also involved with setting new standards for context-sensitive transportation policy through the CNU and is working with several national colleagues on the formation of XNU – the next stage in the development of New Urbanism.
Thomas Kronemeyer, Senior Associate Principal, Community Design + Architecture
Thomas Kronemeyer is an Associate Principal with the Oakland based urban design and planning firm Community Design + Architecture (CD +A). His experience includes a broad variety of planning and design projects for multi-modal transportation corridors, transit facilities, and walkable communities. His work focuses on the successful integration of urban design, land use, and transportation planning with an emphasis on pedestrian- and transit-oriented design. Mr. Kronemeyer holds Master Degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in City Planning and Landscape Architecture as well as a Landscape Architecture engineering degree from the University of Hannover, Germany.
For the past two years, Mr. Kronemeyer has been leading CNU’s initiative for Sustainable Transportation Networks.
Mike Krusee, Representative , Texas House of Representatives
Mike Krusee has represented District 52 of the Texas House of Representatives since 1992. An established leader on issues related to the rapid growth of the Central Texas region, Representative Krusee serves as Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, and is a member of the Executive Council of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO). His passionate interest in quality urban planning and design led him to a seat as a board member of the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU) in 2005. In his role as Chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Representative Krusee has ushered in landmark improvements for both the Central Texas region and the entire State of Texas. His authorship of House Bill 3588, an omnibus transportation statute, is now widely held as one of the most comprehensive and visionary in Texas history; the legislation is now a national model for state transportation funding. Mike has been honored by many business and family organizations, including the Texas Association of Businesses and Chambers of Commerce, the Texas Public Policy Foundation, The Free Enterprise PAC, the Texas Eagle Forum, and the Free Market Foundation, for his commitment to conservative principles and free enterprise. A former litigation paralegal, he works for a document retrieval company with offices throughout the state. His five children were all educated in the Round Rock Independent School District.
Christopher Leinberger, President, Locus Responsible Real Estate Developers and Investors
Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer and author, helping to make progressive development profitable. He is a Professor of Practice and the Director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the University of Michigan. He is also a Visiting Fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, focusing on research and practices that helping transform traditional and suburban downtowns and other places that provide "walkable urbanity". In addition, he is a founding partner of Arcadia Land Company, a progressive real estate development firm with projects in downtown Albuquerque, Independence, Missouri, Seaside, Florida, and five projects in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. Chris has written award-winning articles for publications such as the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Urban Land magazine, among others, and is the author or has contributed chapters to six books. He has been profiled by national broadcast and print media such as CNN, Today Show, National Public Radio, Progressive Architecture, among others. Chris is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Harvard Business School. His wife, Lisa, and he live in the DuPont Circle area of Washington, DC, within walking distance of both a Metro station and Brookings.
Matthew Lewis, Planning Department of San Marcos TX
Gianni Longo, President, ACP Visioning & Planning
Mr. Longo is an architect and founding Principal of ACP. For the past two decades, he has pioneered visioning and strategic planning efforts in cities and regions. Mr. Longo conceived and developed Vision 2000, a community goal-setting process in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The first of its kind, Vision 2000 is credited with stimulating over a billion dollars in development projects in that community.
Mr. Longo designed the creative public involvement strategies for Imagine New York: Giving Voice to the People's Visions, an APA award-winning effort to bring together people throughout the New York City region to share their ideas and vision for rebuilding downtown and memorializing the World Trade Center tragedy. The process involved 250 meetings where 4,000 participants generated 19,000 ideas. From these ideas, 49 visions were created for the site. In the Baltimore region, Mr. Longo conducted Vision 2030: Shaping the Region's Future Together, a project of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council to build consensus on a clear, consistent and realistic vision of the Baltimore region's future. Mr. Longo also has designed and facilitated visions and strategic plans for Metropolitan D.C., the Knoxville, Birmingham, and Kansas City regions, the cities of Houston and Myrtle Beach, Manatee County, Florida, and many others.
Mr. Longo is the author of several books, including the "Learning from the USA" series that focuses on urban revitalization best practices in Baltimore, Seattle and Galveston. His latest book, "A Guide to Great American Public Places," is a survey of 60 successful public places in this country.
Mr. Longo is a highly regarded public speaker and has made frequent presentations to groups that include: the American Planning Association, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Rail~Volution, the International Making Cities Livable Conference, and the Smart Growth Conference. Mr. Longo was the former chair of the Planners Task Force of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).
Mike Lydon, The Street Plans Collaborative
Mike Lydon is the founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. Before launching TSPC in 2009, Lydon worked for Smart Growth Vermont, the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, and Ann Arbor’s GetDowntown Program. From 2006 - 2009 Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company.
As a planner, writer, and activist, Mike’s work has appeared in or been featured by CNN Headline News, Planetizen, Next American City, New Urban News, Planning Magazine, Streetsblog, the Miami Herald, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Mike collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing the recently published Smart Growth Manual. Mike remains a regular contributor to Planetizen and is a founding co-editor of A Living Urbanism, a creative journal chronicling the ever-changing built environment.
Most recently, Lydon was selected as one of thirty four Urban Vanguards for the Next American City, a magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders.
A founding member of the New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a steering committee member of the Next Generation of New Urbanists, Lydon remains active in both local and national planning, design, and smart growth advocacy issues and speaks regularly on the topics of smart growth, new urbanism, and active transportation.
Brice Maryman, SvR Design Company
Jason McLennan, Respondent, Cascadia Green Building Council, Living Communities Challenge
Jason is a nationally recognized leader in the sustainable building industry. He is the author of the Living Building Challenge an international green building program and co-creator of Pharos, the most advanced building material rating system in North America. Jason is known as an international thought leader in the green architecture movement and has lectured on sustainability across the US and Canada. His work in the sustainable design field has been published or reviewed in dozens of journals, magazines conference proceedings and books including Architecture, Architectural Record, Dwell, Plenty, Metropolis, NY Times, The Globe and Mail, The World and I, Ecostructure and Environmental Design and Construction Magazine. He is the author of three books; The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, The Dumb Architectʼs Guide to Glazing Selection, and the Ecological Engineer. The Philosophy of Sustainable Design is currently used as a textbook in over 40 universities and colleges and is distributed widely throughout Europe and North America.
He is a former Principal at BNIM Architects, one of the founders of the green design movement in the United States, where he worked on many of the leading high performance projects in the country including LEED Platinum, Gold and zero energy projects. At BNIM he created the building science team known as Elements, which set new standards for energy and resource efficiency on many of its projects in various building types. Jason is also the founder and CEO of Ecotone Publishing, the only dedicated green building publisher in North America. Jason was recently named one of the top 40 under 40 most influential individuals in the design and construction field by Building Design and Construction magazine.
Paul Milana, Partner, Cooper Robertson
Mr. Milana is an architect and urban designer who joined the firm in 1988 and serves as the design partner on many of the firm's new community and resort village projects. He is the project architect and town planner of WaterColor, Florida, a 500-acre resort town on the Gulf of Mexico, and WindMark Beach, Florida, a 2,000-acre resort community with four miles of beach in Gulf County. He has led various design efforts for the town of Celebration, Florida, including neighborhood planning and building designs. His work on resort projects includes Papagayo in Mexico, and Disney's Vacation Club at Hilton Head in South Carolina. Mr. Milana is an active member of the Congress for New Urbanism and the Urban Land Institute, serving as a panelist and speaker at ULI events across the country. His design for New Town in James City County, Virginia was selected as the winner of an international competition. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Christina Miller, Designer, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company Cheri Morris, President, Hedgewood Commerical Properties John O. Norquist, President and CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism Nathan Norris, Director of Implementation Advisory, PlaceMakers, LLC Leslie Oberholtzer, Director of Planning, Farr Associates Daniel Parolek, AIA,, Principal , Opticos Design, Inc. Stefanos Polyzoides, Principal, Moule & Polyzoides Architects & Urbanists Shelley Poticha, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Senior Adviser for Sustainable Housing and Communities Joni Priest, Planner, Metro Planning Department Caleb Racicot, Senior Principal, Tunnell-Spangler-Walsh & Associates Matt Raimi, Principal, Raimi + Associates, Inc. Robert Reed, Sustainable Communities Design Director , Southface (Moderator; EarthCraft Communities) Max Reim, Principal and Co-Managing Partner, Live Work Learn Play LLP Sam Schwartz, Sam Schwartz Engineering Francis Scire, Leasing Executive, Cornish Associates Greg Searle, Respondent, Bioregional North America, One Planet Communities Terry Shook, Founding Partner and Principal, Shook Kelley Architects Daniel K. Slone, Esquire, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP Holden Smith Test Heather Smith, Planning Director, Congress for the New Urbanism Lee Sobel, Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Sandy Sorlien, Director of Technical Research, Center for Applied Transect Studies Rob Spanier, Vice President, Live Work Learn Play LLP Jeff B. Speck, CNU-A, AICP LEED-AP, SPECK & ASSOCIATES LLC Edward Steinfeld, Professor of Architecture and Director, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access, School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY/Buffalo Galina Tahchieva, Director of Town Planning, Duany Plater-Zyberk Emily Talen, PhD AICP, Professor, School of Geographical Sciences, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University Dhiru Thadani, AIA, Architect + Urbanist Macon Toledano, Vice President, LeylandAlliance LLC John Torti, President, Torti Gallas and Partners Brian Traylor, South Florida Regional Planning Council Tom Troy, Senior Vice President, Sharbell Development Corp Bill Tunnell, President, Tunnell Spangler Walsh & Associates Michael D. Watkins, AIA AICP LEED-AP CNU-A, Architect, Mike Watkins Architecture Arthur M. Wendell, , Healthy Community Design Initiative, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
June Williamson, Associate Professor of Architecture - School of Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture, The City College of New York/CUNY
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John Norquist's work promoting New Urbanism as an alternative to sprawl and antidote to sprawl's social and environmental problems draws on his experience as big-city mayor and prominent participant in national discussions on urban design and school reform. John was the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988-2004. Under his leadership, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown housing, and became a leading center of education and welfare reform. He has overseen a revision of the city's zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city's 3.1-mile Riverwalk. He has drawn widespread recognition for championing the removal of a .8 mile stretch of elevated freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million in infill development in the heart of Milwaukee. A leader in national discussions of urban design and educational issues, Norquist is the author of The Wealth of Cities, and has taught courses in urban policy and urban planning at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and at Marquette University. Norquist served in the Army Reserves from 1971 to 1977, earned his undergraduate and master's degrees from the University of Wisconsin. He represented Milwaukee's south and west sides in the Wisconsin Legislature. He chaired the National League of Cities Task Force on Federal Policy and Family Poverty and served on the Amtrak Reform Council. He is married to CNU Board Member Susan Mudd. They have two children, Benjamin and Katherine.
Nathan Norris is the Director of Implementation Advisory with PlaceMakers, L.L.C., a multi-disciplinary firm that helps developers and municipalities plan, design and sell places designed according to traditional town planning principles that are embodied in the SmartCode. His primary role within PlaceMakers is to advise developers and cities on how to successfully implement plans that generate economic, environmental and social rewards.
Nathan is an attorney, real estate broker and the Director of Marketing & Design for a billion dollar traditional neighborhood development in Pike Road, Alabama called the Waters. Nathan regularly speaks to organizations and groups interested in the SmartCode and placemaking as an economic development tool.
Leslie Oberholtzer is Director of Planning at Farr Associates, an architecture, planning, and preservation firm in Chicago. With extensive background as a landscape architect and smart growth planner, she concentrates professionally on promoting sustainable urbanism through such practices as well designed, walkable neighborhoods; availability of alternative transportation and housing choices; supporting local businesses; and preservation of community history and tradition. She authored the first form-based code adopted in the State of Illinois and continues to focus on coding as a key implementation tool for sustainable communities.
A registered landscape architect in Texas and Illinois, Leslie has a Master’s Degree in Community and Regional Planning and is a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional. In addition to her work at Farr Associates, she is a member of the LEED-ND corresponding committee and served on the LEED-ND pilot focus group. She also serves on the EPA’s model code workshop team, the planning committee for the Friends of the Chicago River, and the Eco-Andersonville committee of the Andersonville Development Corporation. She contributed to the book Sustainable Urbanism and recently co-authored the Sustainable Urbanism modules for the SmartCode.
Aiming to create a practice that combined town planning and architecture to elevate the design, implementation, and revitalization of great urban places, Daniel established Opticos Design in 2000. Daniel has won multiple international design competitions and was awarded a Knight Fellowship through the University of Miami in 2004 to study mixed-use neighborhood centers. He is the author of the book “Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers,” which will be available from Wiley in March of 2008. He is a frequent national lecturer and author in the field of New Urbanism, Smart Growth, and Form-Based Coding and is a founding board member of the Form-Based Codes Institute.
Stefanos Polyzoides received his Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude and Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. He is a registered architect in the states of California, Arizona Florida, Texas and New Mexico.
He was born in Athens, Greece and has lived in Los Angeles since 1973. He was a Professor of Architecture at USC until 1997 and has practiced with partner Elizabeth Moule in Moule & Polyzoides, since 1990.
Mr. Polyzoides' distinguished career covers the areas of architectural and urbanist education, history, theory and practice. His professional experience spans institutional, commercial and civic buildings, historic rehabilitation, housing, campus planning, and urban design.
He was a co-founder of CNU in 1990.
Shelley Poticha is the Senior Advisor for Sustainable Housing and Communities at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Poticha has also been a Co-Chair at Transportation for America since its launch in 2008, president and CEO of the national nonprofit Reconnecting America since 2004, and former executive director of the Congress for the New Urbanism. Throughout her career, Poticha has become a national leader for the reform of land-use and transportation planning and policy and has helped stimulate a national conversation about the role of transportation in shaping communities and making them more sustainable and affordable. Shelley has co-authored several books, including The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development, Street Smart: Streetcars and Cities in the 21st Century, and The Next American Metropolis, as well as the Charter of the New Urbanism.
Caleb Racicot is a community planner specializing in public involvement, community design, codes, community retail strategies, and the use of area studies as catalysts for place making.
Mr. Racicot has worked in both the public and private sector and is an effective consensus builder. Prior to joining TSW in 2001, he practiced planning in Atlanta with the City of Atlanta Bureau of Planning. While with the City, Caleb worked on a variety of projects including urban design studies, zoning initiatives, land use plans, community facilitation, and Geographic Information Systems.
He holds a Master of City and Regional Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Caleb’s recent projects include: Hapeville Main Street Town Center LCI; Highway 278 LCI Corridor Study; Avondale Estates Downtown Master Plan, Buford Town Center LCI Study, Central Martinez Area Study, Cascade Acres Design Standards, Ponce/Moreland Corridor Study, and the Woodstock Downtown Zoning Code.
Matt Raimi, AICP, is the sole principal of the land use planning firm Raimi + Associates, Inc. in Berkeley, California. His work focuses on creating more livable and sustainable cities by promoting public dialogue on land use, environmental, public health and transportation issues. Matt has over a dozen years of experience in planning and has managed numerous comprehensive plans, open space plans and site planning projects across California. He has also spoken extensively on applying the principles of new urbanism to comprehensive plans, incorporating public health concerns into the planning process, and promoting sustainable development at the local level. He is the author of several books and reports including Understanding the Relationship Between Public Health and the Built Environment (USGBC, 2006), Once There Were Greenfields (NRDC 1999) and Five Years of Progress: 110 Communities Where ISTEA is Making a Difference (STPP, 1996).
Max Reim is the Co-Founder and Principal of Live Work Learn Play LLP, a cutting edge group of developers, consultants and deal-making specialists in envisioning, planning, developing, “work outs” and Targeted Leasing and Casting TLCtm of large-scale commercial mixed-use legacy projects. Max specializes in the creation of urban villages and waterfront redevelopments, as well as the revitalization of cities and downtowns, along with the development or redevelopment of college towns & university districts, resort towns, and large-scale mixed-use New & Old Urbanist projects.
Max has developed, revitalized or “worked out” over 100-large-scale projects in seven different countries where there are currently over ninety million people living, working, learning or playing annually. Currently, Max is working on four university towns or college districts, several waterfront redevelopments, two citywide revitalizations, and many other large scale urban and resort mixed-use “work outs” and development projects across North America. Max was also a former World Vice President of Intrawest Corporation, where he led the commercial planning, portions of the development and management of mixed-use resort villages and recreationally based towns throughout North America and Europe, such as Whistler Creekside British Columbia, Mont Tremblant Quebec, Mammoth California, Lake Las Vegas Nevada, and Sandestin Florida. Over the past 25-years, Max has built and operated hundreds of restaurants, lounges and hotels with his family or colleagues, as well as being an integral leader in acquiring, developing, financing, programming, leasing and managing over $2 Billion dollars of mixed-use assets.
Max has been a regular guest speaker for the Congress of New Urbanism, The Seaside Institute, Urban Land Institute, several University Business, Architecture and Urban Planning schools, SCUP and many public and private organizations. Max’s life mission is simply to “Create Enduring Community Vitality and
Greg is responsible for building partnerships to create One Planet Communities in Canada and the United States. Greg is an experienced international consultant, facilitator, and entrepreneur, and an expert on sustainable lifestyles. He is the lead author of the Green Living Manifesto.
Greg has lead teams in developing Sustainability Action Plans and Green Lifestyle programs, setting the most ambitious targets for green communities yet seen in North America. Greg lived at the BedZED eco- neighborhood in London, UK while studying the long-term impacts of the sustainable lifestyles program that operated there. He applied this learning in helping create an "eco-lifestyle" reality TV show, Wa$ted, now in its second season on Discovery's Planet Green channel. He managed an on-location team that provided ecological footprint reduction science and tactics that helped 10 over-consuming American families achieve as much as a 30% reduction in their ecological footprints.
Greg has provided presentations and keynote speeches at over 50 conferences around the world, on subjects including lessons learned from building and operating the BedZED urban eco-village, fostering sustainable lifestyles, green building, and the remarkable findings of ecological footprint analysis as a development planning tool. HisGreenBuild 2006 presentation in Denver, Colorado was rated by 98% of attendees as Excellent (68%) or Above Average (30%). He has been a guest lecturer on sustainability at Ryerson University (Toronto) and Texas A&M University. Greg has been invited to address such prestigious bodies as the US Senate sub- committee on Knowledge Management (2004), and the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Quadrennial Congress in Amman, Jordan (2001). (See speaking enagements)
Greg previously served as a consultant to the United Nations (FAO - Rome), the World Conservation Union (IUCN - Brussels), the International Development Research Centre, and Industry Canada.
As an entrepreneur, Greg co-founded Tomoye Corporation in 1999, a leading, award-winning knowledge management software company, serving as Chief Technology Officer until 2005. Greg invented Tomoye's
Terry Shook, FAIA, is a founding partner and principal of Shook Kelley, a Perception Design firm specializing in strategic consulting services, including branding, architecture, and communication design. Clients past and present of the firm are broad in scope, including such cultural stalwarts as varied as Kraft, Whole Foods, Colonial Williamsburg, and Harley-Davidson, as well as a range of corporate development entities. Mr. Shook leads a planning and design group, with an emphasis on urban retail design and main street development, and the creation of new communities in both the suburbs and within urban cores. As one of the nation's top experts in district branding, he has been recognized as being a vanguard in the movement to return meaning to the urban environment.
Mr. Shook is an annual lecturer in the Professional Development Program at Harvard University, and speaks regularly for the Urban Land Institute and other organizations on topics relating to urban design.
As a consultant and legal counsel, Dan represents developers, design professionals, green businesses and localities around the world, advising them on traditional neighborhood development, conservation development, eco-industrial projects, distributed generation, financing, green product development and business matters. He assists developers of sustainable new towns and innovative utility projects. He also represents localities developing innovative regulatory approaches. He represents professionals providing “green” services and the developers and manufacturers of innovative products.
Dan has been counsel for the U.S. Green Building Council (developers of the LEED® green building rating system) since the turn of the century and for the Congress for the New Urbanism since it began. Among his other public interest clients are the Seaside Institute and the World Green Building Council. He serves on the boards of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, the National Charrette Institute, the Form Based Codes Institute and the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences.
Dan has worked for two decades on Traditional Neighborhood Development projects in most regions of the country. Having worked on smaller infill, as well as large-scale projects with thousands of homes and several million square feet of commercial space, he represents both developers and localities. For developers, he helps obtain environmental and land use entitlements, drafts code provisions to propose to the governing locality, drafts the community code imposed through the covenants and restrictions, drafts homeowner association documents, and performs other tasks. Dan’s team has developed green real estate documents as well as green homeowner association documents. For localities, he helps identify code provisions that interfere with New Urban or sustainable projects, and crafts codes that encourage or require New Urban or more sustainable developments with practical flexibility for the development community.
Dan has been the legal team leader for the land use and entitlement process for several new towns widely recognized as part of the cutting edge for the application of New Urban and green development principles. He has worked for the Department of Energy and FEMA in relocating flooded towns in the Midwest; worked with the State of Mississippi on Katrina recovery; and assisted in various aspects of the development or permitting of other new communities in California, Iowa, Virginia, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut and other states. He speaks nationally on removing or overcoming legal impediments to innovative and responsible development, as well as implementing the Smart Code and other form-based code approaches.
Dan’s team also helps green manufacturers determine what they can say about their products and help large-scale land owners monetize environmental attributes of their properties such as carbon credits and stream restoration credits.
Dan’s law degree is from the University of Michigan, and he has degrees in Philosophy and Political Science from Birmingham-Southern College. In the summer of 2008 Dan and co-author Doris Goldstein co-wrote A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects, published by John Wiley & Sons which is available through on-line book sellers. In 2007 ULI published Developing Sustainable Planned Communities which includes Dan’s chapter on “Maintaining Sustainability.”
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Heather is an urban planner responsible for supporting the CNU member Initiatives and planning the annual Congress program. She joined CNU in January 2005. Before joining CNU, she coordinated the Metropolis Plan activities for Chicago Metropolis 2020, a regional planning organization. Prior to working in Chicago she received an American Planning fellowship to advance sustainable development and planning issues in the United States Senate. Heather holds a masters degree in urban planning and previously worked for the New York City Department of City Planning. Heather enjoys biking to work, sailing, swimming, and kayaking in her free time.
Lee Sobel is the Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst in the U.S. EPA’s Development, Community & Environment Division (the Smart Growth program). His work focuses technical assistance, outreach and education, and research and policy, related to real estate development that achieves smart growth goals and outcomes. Prior to joining the EPA, Mr. Sobel was a Senior Associate in the Miami office of CB Richard Ellis’ Investment Property Group, selling shopping centers and retail property throughout Florida. Mr. Sobel has been an active commercial real estate and mortgage broker in Florida for over eight years. Mr. Sobel is the author of "Greyfields Into Goldfields; Dead Malls Become Living Neighborhoods," and co-author of "This Is Smart Growth" and "Getting To Smart Growth II." He has a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and is a resident of Maryland.
Sandy Sorlien is the Director of Technical Research at the Center for Applied Transect Studies (CATS), a think tank that promotes understanding of the built environment as part of the natural environment, through the planning methodology of the rural-to-urban Transect. CATS supports interdisciplinary research, publication, tools, and training for the design, coding, building and documentation of resilient transect-based communities. Since 2004 Sandy has been the managing editor of the model SmartCode, which won a Charter Award last year, and has edited the transect- based Modules since 2007. As a photographer of urbanism, she is working on a book about Schuylkill River Towns, including her home town of Philadelphia.
Rob Spanier is a Senior Executive with Live Work Learn Play LLP. and has nearly a decade of hands-on experience in large-scale mixed-use analysis, project management, planning, targeted leasing and casting (TLCTM), and hospitality deal making in projects throughout North America, Europe, Mexico and the Caribbean. During his tenure as a senior management member with Intrawest Corporation, Rob worked on over 14 large-scale projects and managed international teams that helped to create world- renowned mixed-use destinations.
Rob currently heads up Live Work Learn Play’s Strategic Business Development initiatives as well as his continued senior management of Live Work Learn Play's TLCTM division and works on many of LiveWorkLearnPlay’s key projects as a senior project resource. Rob is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) where he sits on the Toronto Chapter Program Committee, is a member of International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), and is actively involved with the Seaside Institute and the Congress for New Urbanism (CNU). Rob also participates in guest speaking engagements throughout North America through his various affiliations and other organizations.
Rob is passionate about life and helping to provide places where people can connect to people, and to their environments; creating places where memories are born and will last forever.
Jeff Speck is a city planner and urban designer who, through writing, lectures, and built work, advocates internationally for smart growth and sustainable design. As Director of Design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007, he directed the Mayors' Institute on City Design and created the Governors' Institute on Community Design. Prior to joining the Endowment, Mr. Speck spent ten years as Director of Town Planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co. He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise
of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as The Smart Growth Manual.
Dr. Steinfeld is a registered architect and design researcher with special interests in universal design, accessibility and design for the lifespan. At SUNY/Buffalo, he is a Professor of Architecture and Director of the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access. He also directs the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Universal Design and the Built Environment which is housed at the IDEA Center. Dr. Steinfeld has published extensively and received many awards for his research and design work, including a Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture for 2003. His current work includes leading the development of a Pattern Book on Inclusive Design of Urban Housing. The need for this book emerged through several years of dialogue between disability rights advocates and the CNU community.
Galina Tahchieva is a partner and director of town planning at DPZ. In her 16-year career with DPZ, Ms. Tahchieva has led, managed, designed and supported the implementation of numerous regional plans, downtown redevelopments, suburban retrofits, academic campuses, new towns and resort villages. She has provided leadership to an extensive list of projects in the US, England, Scotland, the Caribbean, Russia and Bulgaria. In all projects Ms. Tahchieva has emphasized the transformation of sprawl into sustainable communities and has published and lectured on the urgency and relevance of such efforts. Ms. Tahchieva has lectured at the University of Miami, Harvard Executive Program, as well as in Brazil, Italy and Norway. Her expertise includes retrofitting suburbia and environmental aspects of urban planning. She is a LEED certified professional, a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a founding member of the Congress for European Urbanism and a Board member of the New Urban Guild.
Emily Talen is a Professor in the School of Planning and the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University. She holds a Ph.D. in urban geography from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from Ohio State University, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. A forthcoming book, The Design of Diversity (Architectural Press, 2008), explores the urban design requirements of socially diverse neighborhoods in Chicago.
Dhiru A. Thadani, AIA is an architect and urbanist. Since 1980 he has practiced architecture and urbanism in Asia, Europe and North and Central America.
Dhiru was born in Bombay, India and moved to Washington, D.C. to attend the Catholic University of America from 1972-1978 where he received his undergraduate and graduate education in architecture. During his thirty-three years in Washington, D.C. he has taught, practiced, and has worked to place architecture and urbanism in the public eye.
Since its formation in 1993, Dhiru has been a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), and was appointed to the Board in 2005. From 2000 to 2005, he served as Chair of the CNU's Design Task Force, and has undertaken and completed many initiatives.
Dhiru has been involved in new developments, urban retrofits, neighborhood revitalization, and infill densification. His goal has been to create neighborhoods that are walkable, and contain a diverse range and balance of workplace and housing. In addition, these new developments support regional planning for open space, and architecture that is responsive to the culture, climate and context.
For the past twenty years, Dhiru has been the lead designer for several real estate developments in first and third world countries. The developments range in scale from government-sponsored autonomous new towns for 500,000 inhabitants to smaller resort communities for 900 residents, as well as small-scale residential infill interventions in revitalizing neighborhoods.
Macon Toledano is Vice President of LeylandAlliance LLC
After 19 years with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, Mr. Watkins enrolled last fall in the inaugural year of a new program being jointly offered by The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (in NYC) and the Georgia
Institute of Technology. The one-year program will lead to a Master's of Science in Architecture with a Concentration in Classical Design.
Mr. Watkins served as Director of Town Planning for Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. In 1988, Mr. Watkins opened the Washington, D.C. office of this Miami-based architecture and town planning firm. Since that time, he served as the Town Architect for Kentlands, a 352-acre neo-traditional neighborhood northwest of Washington, D.C. In Kentlands, Mr. Watkins was responsible for neighborhood design development, review of engineering drawings, and review of architectural designs submitted by builders for compliance with the Kentlands Design Code. He was also the project manager and town architect for numerous other neo-traditional neighborhoods. He has been a member of design teams for over seventy towns and neighborhoods in the United States and abroad.
Mr. Watkins is one of the co-authors with Andres Duany of the SmartCode, a zoning ordinance that, once adopted, legalizes the development of traditional neighborhoods. The SmartCode has been very well received by many municipalities in the Gulf Coast region as they seek to rebuild themselves in the traditional pattern rather than in the pattern of suburban sprawl. In 2003 Mr. Watkins edited and produced The Guidebook to the Old and New Urbanism in the Baltimore / Washington Region.
June Williamson, RA, LEED AP, is an associate professor of architecture at The City College of New York/CUNY and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. She has practiced architecture and urban design in New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Salt Lake City and Boston and held teaching positions at Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Utah, and Boston Architectural College. Recent publications include essays in the anthology Writing Urbanism, the Journal of Urbanism, and the journal Places.