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Samuel Babatunde Agbola [+/-]
is a professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. He holds a BA in Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, and a Master’s and PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the Department of Geography at the University of Ibadan in 1983. He was the acting director of the Center for Urban and Regional Planning from 1989 to 1993 and the head of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning from 2000 until 2006. He has served as the chairman of the Committee on the Development of Ajibode and Private Development of Hostel Accommodation. His main research area is housing, an issue about which he has published many articles and books. His other areas of research attention include climate change and land–use/land–cover change, food safety (HACCP), Healthy Cities, and biomedical waste management.
Rohit T. Aggarwala [+/-]
is director of New York City’s Office of Long–term Planning and Sustainability, which is within the Mayor’s Office of Operations. Dr. Aggarwala’s office is charged with the creation and implementation of PlaNYC 2030, a long–term sustainability plan to ensure the City’s continued prosperity, growth, and health. A native of New York City, Dr. Aggarwala holds a BA, MBA, and PhD from Columbia University, as well as an MA from Queen’s College in Ontario. Prior to joining the City, he was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, where his practice focused on transportation and telecommunications clients. During the Clinton Administration, Dr. Aggarwala worked at the Federal Railroad Administration, and currently chairs a subcommittee at the Transportation Research Board, which is part of the National Academy of Science. He is the author of several articles on transportation policy and on the history of New York City.
Andrew Altman [+/-]
is deputy mayor for planning and development for the City of Philadelphia, He is the former director of planning, Washington, DC, and former head of the Anacostia Waterfront Development Corporation where among other things, he was involved in the planning and development of a stadium and performing arts center. He has a Master’s of Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Diana Balmori [+/-]
is a landscape and urban designer and founding principal of Balmori Associates, Inc. and William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University for Fall 2008. Dr. Balmori is recognized internationally for her innovative work in the field of landscape architecture and urban design. Her many publications include Saarinen House and Garden: A total work of Art and The Land and Natural Development (LAND) Code: Guidelines for Sustainable Land Devolopment, published in March 2007. Dr. Balmori teaches at the Yale School of Architecture and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has recently been appointed a Senior Fellow in Garden and Landscape Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, D.C. She serves on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C
Tridib Banerjee [+/-]
is professor and James Irvine Chair in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California School of Policy, Planning, and Development. He has focused his research, teaching, and writing on the design and planning of the built environment and the related human and social consequences. In particular, he is interested in the political economy of urban development, and the effects of globalization in the transformation of urban form and urbanism from a comparative international perspective. His current research includes implementation of st growth policies, converting brown fields to affordable housing, designing for residential density and walkable communities, and transit oriented development. He served as associate dean of the former USC School of Urban and Regional Planning from 1982 to 1986, and as vice dean of the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development from 1998 to 2001. He is principal investigator of USC’s Center for Economic Development and serves as the director of the Community Development and Design Forum. His publications include Beyond the Neighborhood Unit (with William C. Baer), City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch (co–edited with Michael Southworth),and Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form (with Anastasia Loukaitou–Sideris). Professor Banerjee is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a member of the Planning Accreditation Board, and is actively involved with the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Jonathan Barnett [+/-]
is a professor of practice in city and regional planning, and director of the Urban Design Program, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an architect and planner as well as an educator, and practices urban design with Wallace Roberts and Todd, LLC in Philadelphia. He has been an advisor to many U.S. cities, including Charleston, Cleveland, Kansas City, Miami, New York City, Omaha, Nashville, and Pittsburgh, as well as to the cities of Xiamen and Tianjin in China. He has also been an advisor to several U.S. Government agencies including the National Park Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Capitol Planning Commission. He is the author of many books and articles on the theory and practice of urban design; his two most recent books are Redesigning Cities and Smartt Growth in a Changing World.
Timothy Beatley [+/-]
is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning at University of Virginia’s School of Architecture where he has taught for the last eighteen years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following recent books: Ethical Land Use (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth (University of Texas Press, 1994), Natural Hazard Mitigation (Island Press, 1999, with David Godschalk and others); and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (Island Press, 2002, Second Edition, with David Brower and Anna Schwab).
Eugenie L. Birch [+/-]
is the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education and Professor of City and Regional Planning, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. She is founding co–director, Penn Institute of Urban Research. Dr. Birch has published widely in planning history and contemporary urban revitalization. Her most recent books are Growing Greener Cities, Urban Sustainability in the Twenty–first Century (2008) and Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (2006), co–edited with Susan M. Wachter. Forthcoming books include Urban and Regional Planning Reader (2008) and Practice of Local Planning (2009) co–edited with Gary Hack, Mitchell Silver and Paul Sedway. Dr. Birch has served as editor, Journal of the American Planning Association; president, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and Society of American City and Regional Planning History; and chair, Planning Accreditation Board. She has been a member, New York City Planning Commission and Jury to Select the World Trade Center Site Design. Currently she is a director, Municipal Art Society of New York and Scenic Hudson, Inc.
William W. Braham FAIA [+/-]
is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is currently Interim Chair of the Department of Architecture, and Director of the certificate program in Ecological Architecture. He received an engineering degree from Princeton University and an M. Arch and Ph.D. Arch. From the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1988. At Penn he teaches graduate courses on ecology, technology, and design. He practices with the TC Chan Center and as a design consultant for Ivalo Lighting and Lutron. At the Chan Center, His most recent projects have been the Sustainability Plan, the Carbon Footprint, and Climate Neutrality Action Plan for the University of Pennsylvania. In 2006 he published a book called Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, and In 2002 published a book called Modern Color/Modern Architecture: Amédée Ozenfant and the genealogy of color in modern architecture. He is working on another book project called Ecology, Technology, and Design.
Jason Bregman [+/-]
is director of Environmental Planning and Design for Michael Singer Studio where he manages large scale landscape and infrastructure planning projects. His design work focuses on sustainable and regenerative systems integration that help to restore damaged environments. Bregman has worked closely with Michael Singer for over eight years on projects including parks, power generation facilities, security barriers, housing, infrastructure and community planning, waterfronts, environmental sculptures, commercial buildings and corporate campuses. Currently Mr. Bregman is working with Michael Singer Studio on the West Palm Beach Waterfront Commons, Howard Park also in West Palm Beach, Queens Plaza in New York City, the Seminole Hotel and Resort in Coconut Creek, Florida, and numerous sites for the construction of new Whole Foods Markets in Florida. Prior to joining Michael Singer to run the South Studio in Delray Beach, Florida Mr. Bregman was an Associate at Margie Ruddick Landscape (now a part of WRT Philadelphia) where he worked on Queens Plaza, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and a rooftop garden for Rockefeller University.
Hillary Brown [+/-]
is a former design director and assistant commissioner at New York City’s Department of Design and Construction and founded its Office of Sustainable Design. She was managing editor of the nationally and internationally recognized City of New York High Performance Building Guidelines, co–author of the U.S. Green Building Council’s State and Local Green Building Toolkit, and author of Implementing High Performance Buildings. Additionally, she envisioned and has co–authored the just–released High Performance Infrastructure: Best Practices for the Public Right–Of–Way for New York City and the Design Trust for Public Space. Currently a practicing architect, she is principal of the firm New Civic Works, where she specializes in green design for schools, universities, public buildings, and infrastructure. She teaches sustainable design at the Princeton and Columbia University Schools of Architecture as well as at the Bard College Center for Environmental Policy, and she is a Fellow of the City University of New York Institute for Urban Systems.
Paul R. Brown [+/-]
is the president of the Public Services Group at Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. (CDM), where he is responsible for the delivery of consulting, engineering, construction, and operations services to the firm’s municipal, regional, and state government clients throughout North America. He has over 30 years experience in project development, project finance, and the planning and management of public utilities and environmental facilities. He has also been involved in a number of water resources planning projects heavily emphasizing public stakeholder participation, process facilitation, and multi–objective decision making for clients that include the states of California and Colorado; the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD); the Santa Clara Valley Water District; the Orange County (CA) Sanitation District; and the cities of Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and Seattle. A member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), Mr. Brown’s educational background includes an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (1982); an MA from the University of Rochester (1973); and a BA from Tufts University (1971). He serves a member of the Board of Advisors for the four–part PBS series Edens Lost & Found, the Steering Committee for the National Leadership Summits for a Sustainable America, and the Stockholm Industry Water Award Committee. He is co–editor (with Dr. Vladimir Novotny) of the book Cities of the Future: Towards Integrated Sustainable Water and Landscape Management published by IWA.
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Thomas Campanella [+/-]
Thomas J. Campanella teaches and writes about landscapes, urban form and the design of cities. He is associate professor of urban planning and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a fellow of the UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities. His books include The Concrete Dragon: China’s Urban Revolution and What it Means for the World (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008); Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm (Yale University Press, 2003); and Cities From the Sky: An Aerial Portrait of America (Princeton Architectural Press, 2001). He is also co–editor, with Lawrence Vale, of The Resilient City: How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster (Oxford University Press, 2005). Campanella holds a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MLA from Cornell University. He has taught at MIT, Nanjing University, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and was a Fulbright fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a recipient of the John Reps Prize from the Society for American City and Regional Planning History and the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.
Matthew Carmona [+/-]
is professor of planning and urban design and head of the Bartlett School of Planning, University College of London. He is an architect / planner whose research has focused upon the policy context for delivering better quality built and natural environments. He has worked on a a range of research projects examining: design policies and guidance; design coding; residential design and development processes; the value of urban and architectural design; performance management and measurement in planning; managing external public space; and contemporary London squares. He has advised the UK Government on a range of issues relating to design quality and the built environment and regularly advises and lectures overseas. Matthew is on the editorial board of ‘Urban Design Quarterly’, is European Associate Editor for the ‘Journal of Urban Design’, and edits the ‘Design in the Built Environment’ book series for Ashgate. In 2002 he worked with Norman Foster & Associates to win the West Kowloon Cultural District International Masterplanning competition. He serves on the Research Reference Group of the UK’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
Sudeshna Chatterjee [+/-]
is a principal of Kaimal Chatterjee & Associates, New Delhi, a firm that practices architecture, urban design, and contributes to design research. Dr. Chatterjee is currently doing the urban design of the new capital city of Chhattisgarh, Naya Raipur, besides working on several other community design projects in Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttaranchal, and Uttar Pradesh. Dr. Chatterjee is a research affiliate of the Children, Youth and Environments Center for Research and Design at the University of Colorado in Boulder. She is also the news editor for the international journal called Children, Youth and Environments. Dr. Chatterjee is a visiting faculty in the graduate department of Urban Design in the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. She has a master’s degree in Urban Design from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and a PhD in Community and Environmental Design from North Carolina State University, USA. Dr. Chatterjee has presented papers in several international conferences including in Alexandria, Ann Arbor, Atlanta, Delhi, Dubai, Raleigh, Vancouver, Vienna, and Bruges. She has received awards for outstanding scholarship including Best Paper Award (2006) from the Environmental Design Research Association and International Fellowship (2003–2004) from American Association of University Women.
Neelkanth H. Chhaya [+/-]
has been a practicing architect and academic in Kenya and in India since 1977. He has done projects of institutional, residential, industrial, and recreational programmes in Ahmedabad and elsewhere. His practice has emphasized the adaptation of built form to physical and social contexts, especially landform and landscapes. He is also deeply interested in the cultural factors that affect architecture, especially in societies of rapid change. His projects have won major national awards, and he has also won several architectural competitions. In recent years, he has been involved in participatory rehabilitation housing projects as well as mass housing projects in urban areas. An interest in traditional and artisanal knowledge in the area of built environment is currently being pursued. He has taught at the University of Nairobi, at the Institute of Environmental Design, Vallabh Vidyanagar, and at CEPT University, Ahmedabad where he is dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He has lectured at universities in India and abroad, spoken and keynoted many conferences, and had his work included in two special exhibitions, "4x4" and "Alternative Practices," in Mumbai.
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Clive Doucet [+/-]
is currently serving as a city Councillor for his home Capital Ward in Ottawa, Canada, a position which he has held since 1997. Mr. Doucet is also poet and author having published over a dozen books, including his latest publication: "Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual." He began his career at the Federal Ministry of Urban Affairs (MSUA) where he was one of the authors of The Federal Urban Domain, a multi–volume evaluation of the federal government’s urban properties. Subsequently, he worked as policy advisor in the Ontario Municipal Affairs Ministry’s local government reform section. At the federal level, he has held a variety of communications and policy positions. He has a Bachelor of Arts with honours degree in Urban Anthropology from the University of Toronto, and a Masters degree (MSc) from the Université de Montréal. He is married with two children.
Bill Dunster [+/-]
founded ‘the ZEDfactory’ in 1998. The company aims to demonstrate that a step change reduction in carbon footprint is achievable at the same time as an increase in overall quality of life – with a zero carbon, zero waste lifestyle, and workstyle achieved by synchronizing urban ZEDs with zero fossil energy farming and food distribution. The practice has developed its own building physics models tunable to different climatic regions, has its own ‘ZEDfabric’ low cost bulk purchasing supply chain with specially developed energy efficient and building integrated renewable energy systems. The architectural practice specializes in evolving a contemporary zero carbon vernacular and has completed a range of mixed use building typologies responding to different density requirements. The ZEDfactory is best known for the BedZED project in South London, Jubilee Wharf in Cornwall, the SkyZed high rise proposal in Wandsworth, and the Rural ZED zero carbon kit house. A similar approach using the retro fitting of low carbon construction techniqes is being used to extend the useful life of existing 1970’s social housing in Hackney / London. ZEDfactory are currently working on two UK govt ecotown masterplans, and a number of larger urban projects in China and France, with particular emphasis on the wholistic integration of zero carbon thinking into the placemaking and transportation agenda. Bill has just co written the ‘ZEDbook’ with eco footprint expert Craig Simmons and building phycist Bobby Gilbert – a manual for achieving zero carbon development at different densities and scales – published by Taylor and Francis in the UK.
Fred Dust [+/-]
leads IDEO’s Smart Space practice from IDEO San Francisco. An architect by training, Fred leads multidisciplinary teams to create immersive, interactive spaces for diverse industries, including healthcare, education, retail, financial services, and workplace design. Fred was the project and design lead on the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning (SCIL), a "learning laboratory" at Stanford University created to explore collaborative, technology–enabled approaches to education. Opened in 2002, SCIL is designed to support a wide range of research and learning activities, from small private spaces to small group work to large–scale presentations. Fred’s work in the field of healthcare service delivery includes a new patient–care model for DePaul Health Center in St. Louis; a new cardiac–care center for Memorial Hospital in Bloomington, Indiana; and a new format for mobile dental–care centers for On–Site Dental. These projects were profiled in a cover story that appeared in the October 2002 issue of Metropolis, "IDEO’s Design Cure." In 2001, Fred collaborated with author and cartoonist Scott Adams to create Dilbert’s Ultimate Cubicle, a whimsical yet plausible concept for a modular cubicle that accomodates office workers’ personal tastes and work styles. The project showcases IDEO’s highly adaptable design process and uses humor and optimism to explore the "blue sky" area between Dilbert’s problems and real–life solutions available today. Prior to joining IDEO Fred was a project architect at Fernau and Hartman where he worked on a variety of retail and corporate projects including the Smith & Hawken headquarters, Smith and Hawken retail prototype, and Oxygen Media Networks. In addition to his work as an architect, Fred spent several years as a project manager at Hotwire productions where he supervised development of several interactive art installations as well as aiding in the production of numerous film video projects. Fred holds a bachelors degree in art history from Reed College and a masters of architecture from the School of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley.
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Ann Forsyth [+/-]
is a professor at the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. She works mainly on the social aspects of physical planning and urban development. The big issue behind her research and practice is how to make more sustainable and healthy cities. Professor Forsyth’s contributions have been to analyze the success of planned alternatives to sprawl, particularly exploring the tensions between social and ecological values in urban design. Several issues prove to be the most difficult to deal with in planning better places and provide a focus for some of her more detailed investigations: suburban design, walkability, affordable housing, social diversity, and appropriate green space. In doing this work she has created a number of new tools and methods in planning–;an urban design inventory, GIS protocols, health impact assessments, and participatory planning techniques. Professor Forsyth is also a reflective practitioner/theorist and has created several new ways of understanding social and intellectual diversity in planning and design.
Harrison Fraker, Jr., FAIA[+/-]
is professor of Architecture and Urban Design, was educated as an architect and urban designer at Princeton and Cambridge Universities and is recognized as a pioneer in passive solar, daylighting, and sustainable design research and teaching. He has pursued a career bridging innovative architecture and urban design education with an award–winning practice. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for creating a new College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota and was appointed the founding Dean. He was granted Fellowship in the AIA College of Fellows for his distinguished career of bridging education and practice. He has published seminal articles on the design potential of sustainable systems and urban design principles for transit–oriented neighborhoods. He teaches design studio and believes in integrating pragmatic and theoretical analysis to create new knowledge about the most critical environmental design challenges facing society. He is currently pursuing his beliefs through a whole systems design approach for entirely resource–self-sufficient, transit–oriented neighborhoods of 100,000 people in China.
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Gita Goven [+/-]
is an architect, design practitioner, researcher and teacher with a focus on sustainable design, community development and the built environment. With Alastair Rendall, Goven co–partners arG Design, a firm which encompasses urban design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture and environmental management to deliver sustainable settlements and public spaces. Goven’s focus on sustainable settlement development, housing policy and passive and low’energy design has resulted in award–winning and pioneering projects. Goven’s experience includes integrated housing and development work in India in the early 1980s as well as activist and advocacy work through the United Women’s Congress, the Development Action Group, and the South African Technical and Allied Careers Organisation. She teaches at the University of Cape Town and the University of Stellenbosch. She is chairperson of the Sustainability Institute, an initiative devoted to sustainable living, teaching, and research agendas.
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Martin Haas [+/-]
worked as a freelance filmmaker, making commercials and documentaries, before embarking on his architectural career. He worked for a number of German, Swiss and English based offices both during and after his studies, before joining the Behnisch Practice in 1996. Acting as an Architectural Designer, Martin Haas has worked on numerous competitions both in Germany and abroad, many of them award–winning. As Project Leader, Haas was responsible for the design and realization of the new headquarters for the Norddeutsche Landesbank in Hanover, Germany between 1997–2002. Subsequently as Project Partner he developed a large scale Toy Gallery/Leisure Park, "Acropolis Universe," for Las Vegas and Dubai in 2003 and a residential development Mühlrain/Lehen Stuttgart in 2004. More recently Hass led the project for a new city administrative and research complex (Arpa) in the Italian city of Ravenna. In 2005, Hass became Partner in Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart. Haas has lectured at the University of Hanover, Bauhaus Weimar, University of California at Berkeley, Milano and Rome, Italy, and on the subject of sustainable building at numerous conferences such as the Cityscape in Dubai UAE.
Gary Hack [+/-]
is the Paley Professor of City & Regional Planning and dean of the Penn School of Design, and 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.” Dean 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, Dean 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.
Robert Harris [+/-]
is principal at Environ and a professor at Princeton University. He has had more than 25 years of experience in the area of environmental health and toxic chemicals, with particular emphasis on water and air pollution, and hazardous waste issues. Dr. Harris has been recognized nationally as an expert consultant on the treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste and hazardous waste, and on air, soil, and groundwater contamination. Dr. Harris performed site characterizations and risk assessments at several Superfund and RCRA sites and developed remedial action plans for the cleanup of numerous waste disposal and industrial sites. At Princeton University, Dr. Harris served as co–director of the hazardous waste research program and teaches in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Harris served as the associate director of the Toxic Chemicals Program for the Environmental Defense Fund. He received a PhD in Environmental Sciences from Harvard University, a MS in Environmental Health Engineering at California Institute of Technology and a BS in Civil Engineering at West Virginia University.
Peter Head [+/-]
is director of Arup and heads up the newly integrated business of Planning and Integrated Urbanism. This business includes Development Planning, Economics & Policy, Integrated Urbanism, Transport and Environmental Consulting and Sustainable Development. Head worked at the forefront of steel bridge technology in his early career, leading to being chairman of the Steel Construction Institute. He then led the development of advanced composite materials in bridges and received a number of awards including the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for an outstanding contribution to British Industry. He became project director for major crossings such as the Second Severn Crossing, receiving the OBE for services to the industry for delivering projects. It was on this project that his interest in sustainable development took root. Head first took a role as chairman of the London First Sustainability Unit and was then asked by the mayor of London to become a commissioner on the newly formed London Sustainable Development Commission in 2002. He has recently been appointed for a second term up to 2008. He worked in the Commission on the preparation of the London Sustainable Development Framework and is now actively facilitating workshops on its use on major development and infrastructure projects in London. He also chairs the Commission’s subgroups on Transport and Sustainable Construction. He was a founder member of the Building for Health project which helped set new sustainable development objectives for National Health Service investment. He is a director of the Southeast London Groundwork Trust.
Jennifer Henry [+/-]
is the manager of the Real Estate Sector at the Natural Resource Defense Council’s Center for Market Innovation. Henry holds a Masters’ in Urban Planning from New York University and a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In the past she has worked with NRDC on legislation for New Jersey that would establish a tax credit for smart growth development and has also worked with the Trust for Public Land and Madison Metro Bus Transit. More recently, she worked at the U.S. Green Building Council with a coalition of the nation’s leading progressive design professionals, builders, developers, and environmentalists to develop LEED for Neighborhood Development, a national rating and certification system that takes LEED beyond the single building scope to incorporate criteria regarding compact development patterns, proximity to transit, mixed–use, mixed–housing–type, and pedestrian–and bicycle–friendly design.
James Higgins [+/-]
has worked as a GIS professional for over 15 years, during which time he has developed a comprehensive knowledge of complex geospatial theory and design. After graduating from Mansfield University with a degree in economics, Higgins entered West Chester University to pursue an MA in geography. Upon completion of his MA, Higgins was employed by a series of international engineering and photogrammetric firms focusing on the implementation of GIS systems for state and local governments. During this period James also specialized in the design and implementation of GIS systems for water/wastewater utilities. In 1999, James joined the team at ESRI, the worldwide leader in GIS technology. James began his career at ESRI as an account executive, serving the needs of GIS community throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2005, Higgins became a regional manager responsible for business development and professional and education services in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the New York City/Long Island area. Higgins also continues to support the water/wastewater vertical market for ESRI in the United States and internationally by collaborating with ESRI’s international distributor network. Frequently called upon as a lecturer, Higgins is considered an expert in explaining geospatial concepts as they relate to commercial business, government and water/wastewater entities. Higgins is also a member of the faculty of the School of Business and Public Affairs at West Chester University, serving as an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography and Planning.
Lance Hosey [+/-]
is director with William McDonough + Partners (WM+P). An architect, designer, writer, and speaker Lance Hosey has been featured in Metropolis magazine’s "Next Generation" program and Architectural Record’s "emerging architect" series. His essays have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Architecture; and he is a contributing editor at Architect magazine. With Kira Gould, he is co–author of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (2007) and his forthcoming book is entitled The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design.
Mark Alan Hughes [+/-]
is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program at the University of Pennsylvania and a weekly opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. He joined the public policy faculty of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School at the age of 25. Hughes has taught public policy at Penn’s Fels Institute, Harvard’s Kennedy School, and Swarthmore College; been a senior fellow at Brookings and the Urban Institute; and served as the first vice president for policy development at Public/Private Ventures in Philadelphia. His research has appeared in academic journals of several disciplines such as the Journal of Urban Economics, Political Science Quarterly, Economic Geography, the Journal of the American Planning Association, and Urban Studies. As a policy developer, Hughes helped design and create (1) the $15 million Bridges to Work demonstration for H.U.D., which led to the $750 million Job Access and Reverse Commute federal transportation program; (2) the $35 million Transitional Work Corporation, now the nation’s largest publicly financed jobs program under welfare reform and model for a national program under consideration by Congress; and (3) the Campaign for Working Families, which annually returns over $15 million worth of public benefits to over 10,000 eligible households in Philadelphia. His work has been supported by the Ford, Pew, William Penn, MacArthur, Casey, and Rockefeller foundations. Hughes graduated from Swarthmore in 1981 and received the Ph.D. in Regional Science from Penn in 1986, winning the discipline’s international Dissertation Prize. He won the National Planning Award in 1992, the youngest recipient ever, for his academic writing that year. The Week magazine named him one of the nation’s five best local columnists in 2003. In 2006, he enrolled in the professional Architecture degree program in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Douglas Kelbaugh , FAIA [+/-]
is Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He received his BA degree magna cum laude and Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University. His 1975 passive solar house in Princeton was the first of his many pioneering passive solar buildings. In 1978, he founded Kelbaugh and Lee, a firm that won over 15 regional and national design awards and competitions in half as many years. Professor Kelbaugh has taught design at eight schools of architecture in the USA, Europe, Japan and Australia, as well as delivered lectures at scores of other schools. One of the first to popularize the modern design charrette, he has organized and participated as a team leader in over thirty of these community design workshops on urban and suburban design issues in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has co–chaired many national and international conferences on energy, urbanism, and design, spoken to hundreds of professional and community groups, appeared on numerous local and national radio and television programs, and served on more than two dozen regional and national design juries. In 1989 he edited The Pedestrian Pocket Book, a national bestseller in urban design that introduced the concept of TOD (Transit–Oriented–Development) and helped jump–start New Urbanism. In 1997 Kelbaugh authored COMMON PLACE: Toward Neighborhood and Regional Design, a book on urban theory, design and policy, followed by its sequel Repairing the American Metropolis: Common Place Revisited in 2002. In addition to writing many book chapters, he was the editor of The Michigan Debates on Urbanism: Everyday, New, and Post in 2005 and he the co–edited Writing Urbanism, a design reader in 2008.
Stephen Kieran [+/-]
is a founding partner of KieranTimberlake. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University, magna cum laude, and his Master of Architecture, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a recipient of the Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome, 1980-1981. Kieran and his partner James Timberlake were inaugural recipients of the prestigious Benjamin Latrobe Fellowship for architectural design research from the AIA College of Fellows in 2001. KieranTimberlake received the 2008 Architecture Firm Award, the highest honor bestowed on a firm by the American Institute of Architects. Kieran is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design, and endowed professor in sustainability at the University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has served as Eero Saarinen Distinguished Professor of Design at Yale University, Max Fisher Chair at the University of Michigan, and has taught at Princeton University. He has co–authored two books: Manual, The Architecture of KieranTimberlake, published, and refabricating Architecture, which examines how manufacturing methodologies are poised to transform building construction. Kieran and Timberlake’s latest book, Loblolly House: Elements of a New Architecture, is a case study of a single building which shows a way forward to quality, productivity and sustainability.
Elizabeth Kolbert [+/-]
is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She has traveled from Alaska to Greenland, and visited top scientists, to get to the heart of the debate over global warming. Growing out of a groundbreaking three–part series in The New Yorker (which won the 2005 National Magazine Award in the category Public Interest), Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change brings the environment into the consciousness of the American people and asks what, if anything, can be done, and how we can save our planet. She explains the science and the studies, draws frightening parallels to lost ancient civilizations, unpacks the politics, and presents the personal tales of those who are being affected most–the people who make their homes near the poles and, in an eerie foreshadowing, are watching their worlds disappear. Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by The New York Times Book Review. She has written dozens of pieces for the magazine, including profiles of Senator Hillary Clinton, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Her series on global warming, "The Climate of Man," appeared in The New Yorker in the spring of 2005, and has won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award, as well as the 2006 National Academy of Sciences Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category. She has also been awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship (2006).
Elizabeth Harrison Kubany [+/-]
believes that the importance of the built environment, and its impact on our lives, is always paramount. Through her work, she strives to build awareness of its effects. She studied architecture and architectural history as an undergraduate at Columbia College and received an MA in Architectural History and Theory from the Architectural Association in London. In 1995, she became Director of Public Relations at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates in New York and Los Angeles. After leaving HHPA, she joined the staff of Architectural Record magazine, the most widely read design journal in the world, as practice editor. In this position, she covered the business and management issues confronting architectural practitioners, as well as writing about design. Among her achievements at Record was writing an award-winning story on architectural fees and creating a regular page in the magazine to cover small projects. In September 2000, Kubany was hired as Firmwide Director of Public Relations for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to conceive, organize and direct a public relations strategy for the 1,100–person, nine–office firm. She worked in this position for two years, until the birth of her second child, when she became a consultant to SOM. Today she is principal of EHKPR, a full–service public relations, marketing, and editorial consulting company that specializes in the fields of architecture and design. Kubany has spoken widely on various topics, including the role of public relations and marketing in the practice of architecture, ethics in architecture, and the problems with architectural fees.
Alison Kwok [+/-]
is professor of architecture at the University of Oregon and teaches design studios, seminars in climatic design, lighting, and building performance, as well as courses in environmental technology. Her current research includes adaptive and mitigation strategies for climate change, thermal comfort, natural ventilation, post–occupancy evaluation, and case studies of building performance. She is author of the Green Studio Handbook: Environmental Strategies for Schematic Design, with Walter Grondzik (Chinese and Greek editions will appear in 2009). She and Grondzik revised the 10th edition of Mechanical and Electrical Equipment for Buildings, with the 11th edition in press. Kwok has a long involvement with the Vital Signs Curriculum Materials Project, a national effort coordinated by UC Berkeley (funded by the Energy Foundation, Pacific Gas & Electric Utility, and NSF). She was principal investigator of the Agents of Change project, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post–Secondary Education (FIPSE). Kwok has served in several capacities and as a board member for the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, as past–president of the Society of Building Science Educators, is a member of several ASHRAE committees, and is a member of the USGBC’s Formal Education Committee. She is recipient of the American Solar Energy Society’s Women in Solar Energy Award and the Faculty Excellence Award from the University of Oregon. Professor Kwok has lectured and given workshops in the UK, China, Korea, Japan, and throughout the United States.
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David Leatherbarrow [+/-]
is a professor of architecture at Penn and chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture. He teaches courses in architectural theory and design studios in the graduate and undergraduate programs, supervises research, and directs the Ph.D. program. He taught theory and design at the Polytechnic of Central London and Cambridge University, England and is in private practice with Lauren Leatherbarrow. He is the recipient of the Visiting Scholar Fellowship from the Canadian Center of Architecture (1997–98). His books include: Topographical Stories, Surface Architecture, (with Mohsen Mostafavi); Uncommon Ground, Roots of Architectural Invention, On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time, and Masterpieces of Architectural Drawing. His research focuses on history and theory of architecture and the city.
Nancy Levinson [+/-]
is director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, an urban design/research center of the College of Design at Arizona State University. In collaboration with her ASU colleague Kenneth McCown, associate professor of landscape architecture, she is creator of the Peak Oil Initiative: Transforming Phoenix for the Post–Petroleum Era, a multiyear, multidimensional project that blends university pedagogy with public information, including an exhibition and symposium, with the goal of creatively adapting the postwar city to the challenges of urban sustainability. Prior to her move to Arizona, she worked at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she cofounded Harvard Design Magazine, and at Princeton Architectural Press, where she developed books on topics ranging from visual perception to landscape urbanism. She writes frequently for design periodicals, including Architectural Record, where she is a contributing editor; for two years she wrote the weblog "Pixel Points" for the online Arts Journal. She has recently been appointed the editor of Places Journal.
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Elizabeth Macdonald [+/-]
Elizabeth Macdonald is assistant professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in urban design. She is also a faculty member of the Program in the Design of Urban Places. She holds a B.A. in Architecture, a M.L.A. and M.C.P., and a Ph.D. from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. She has previously taught at the University of Toronto and at the University of British Columbia. Macdonald’s research interests encompass urban design theory, history of urban design, history of urban form, public space design, environment–behavior research, livability, and public/private interface in urban design. Her publications include The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (MIT Press, 2002, co–authored with Allan B. Jacobs and Yodan Rofé); "Structuring a Landscape/Structuring a Sense of Place: The Enduring Complexity of Olmsted and Vaux’s Brooklyn Parkways," which appeared in the Journal of Urban Design; and "Livable Streets Revisited" (with Peter Bosselmann), which appeared in the Journal of the American Planning Association. She is currently involved in a research study investigating the livability of Vancouver’s new high density downtown neighborhoods. As well as being an academic, Macdonald is also a licensed architect and practicing urban designer. She is a partner in the San Francisco based firm Jacobs Macdonald.
Musco Martin, AIA, LEED[+/-]
is the founding Principal of m2 Architecture, a design firm focused on integrating ecology, aesthetics and health in the built environment. Martin is the author of the recently published NCARB monograph Sustainable Design. In addition to his practice, Martin is a lecturer in the Penn School of Design where he teaches a course on ecological architecture. A LEED Accredited Professional since 2001, Martin currently serves on the US Green Building Council’s LEED Steering Committee, the DVGBC Board of Directors and is a past chair of the national AIA Committee on the Environment. Current projects at m2A include an environmental education facility for the Alice Ferguson Foundation in Maryland, a winner of the 2007 Living Building Challenge competition, a green office building for the Stroud Water Research Center, and a horticultural facility for the University of Pennsylvania’s Morris Arboretum that is aiming for LEED Platinum.
Jonathan Marvel, AIA [+/-]
is a Principal at Rogers Marvel Architecture. He was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Marvel majored in fine arts at Dartmouth College receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1982. In 1986, he received the Masters of Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Jonathan worked for four years in the office of Richard Meier before beginning his own practice in 1990. In 1992 he teamed up with Robert Rogers to form Rogers Marvel Architects in New York City. The practice focuses on the design of public space at many scales – from parks to buildings to furniture. Current work includes a 40 acre park for Governors Island, a twelve acre park in Jersey City, a two block redevelopment in Oklahoma City, and 750 affordable and market rate housing units in a brownfield along the Gowanus Canal. Jonathan has consistently taught design studios for 15 years at Columbia, Harvard and now Parsons and recently started teaching an Urban Design Studio at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a former Board member of the New York Chapter of the AIA, and currently serves on the preservation committee of the Municipal Art Society as well as on the streetscape committee for the New York City Art Commission. He has been a member of the NYSCA Architecture, Planning and Design panel since 2006.
Adrian Masson [+/-]
is a program manager in the Strategic Projects Unit of the Durban, South Africa eThekwini municipality. He works on some of the city’s large projects, including the Warwick Triangle commuter/informal trade area, the redevelopment of the port and the airport. He has also championed engagement in the municipality about the implications of peak oil for the city and planning, and has presented several papers on the subject at municipal and national conferences. He has previously worked as a private consultant and in other public sector positions, as well as at the Cato Manor Urban Development Association, a European Union funded project, which has been seen as an international best practice. The project redeveloped a well–located area vacated through forced removals under apartheid using principles of compact, integrated, and inclusive development. Much of Masson’s work has involved working with residents in ginalized areas of the city to develop livable settlements. This has included, inter alia, community driven informal settlement upgrading, sometimes in areas of conflict; urban regeneration in former apartheid townships; and managing and designing new development. Masson holds a masters degree in Town and Regional Planning from the University of Natal.
Ken McCown [+/-]
earned degrees in architecture and landscape architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. This interdisciplinary platform fosters numerous collaborations and inquiries into cohesive and integrated design and planning centralized around regenerative design and sense of place. These collaborations include the Taj Mahal National Park and Cultural Heritage District, the Peak Oil Plan for the City of San Buenaventura (Ventura), CA, a physical and cultural analysis for Barrio Chino in Panama City, Panama for the Oficina del Casco Antiguo (UNESCO), the Eco–Revelatory Design Exhibition, and Historic Landscape Plans for the United States Military Academy at West Point, and Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. McCown is an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Arizona State University and the former Resident Director of the Richard and Dion Neutra VDL Research House II in Los Angeles, where he led restoration efforts. His research advanced Richard Neutra’s ideas about sustainability and healthy environments by integrating his architectural ideas with landscape, planning and perceptual psychology. Mr. McCown's students recently won the "Integrating Habitats" competition led by Metro in Portland, Oregon for a project demonstrating capacities to balance social, economic and ecologic function in urban design.
William J. Mitchell [+/-]
holds the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. (1954) Professorship and directs the MIT Design Laboratory and the Smart Cities group at the Media Laboratory. He was formerly Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Head of the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, both at MIT. During the recent period of extensive construction of major projects on the MIT campus, he served as Architectural Advisor to the President of MIT. Before coming to MIT, he was the Travelstead Professor of Architecture and director of the Master in Design Studies program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; he has also served as head of the Architecture/Urban Design program at UCLA’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and he has taught at Yale, Carnegie–Mellon, and Cambridge universities. Mitchell holds degrees from the University of Melbourne, Yale University, and Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mitchell’s research focuses upon new technologies in architecture, urban design, and product design. His books include City of Bits, E–topia, Me++, Placing Words: Symbols, Space and the City, and most recently Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the 21 Century. His latest, World’s Greatest Architect, is forthcoming from the MIT Press. He writes a monthly column for Building Design in London, and has also served as a regular columnist for the Royal Institute of British Architects Journal.
Dinesh Mohan [+/-]
is Volvo Chair Professor for Biomechanics and Transportation Safety and coordinator of the Transportation Research and Injury Prevention Programme at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has worked on mechanical properties of human tissues, human impact tolerance, vehicle and traffic safety, epidemiology of road traffic crashes and injuries in rural India, and technological aids for the disabled. Concerned with mobility and safety of people outside the car he is trying to integrate these issues within a broader framework of sustainable transport policies, urban transport options and people’s right to access and safety as a fundamental human right. He has co–authored end edited four books on safety. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, American Public Health Association International Distinguished Career Award, and International Association for Accident & Traffic Medicine’s International Award and Medal for outstanding achievement in traffic safety. Professor Mohan obtained his BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, followed by a Masters degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Delaware and then a PhD in Biomechanics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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Adil Najam [+/-]
is the Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy at Boston University. He also serves as the Director of the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer–Range Future and a Professor of International Relations and of Geography and Environment. He served as a Lead and Coordinating Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for its Third and Fourth Assessment reports. Professor Najam has also taught at MIT, University of Massachusetts and at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He has written over 100 scholarly papers and book chapters and serves on the editorial boards of many scholarly journals; his recent books include: Pakistanis in America: Portrait of a Giving Community; Trade and Environment Negotiations: A Resource Book; Envisioning a Sustainable Development Agenda for Trade and Environment; Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia; and Civic Entrepreneurship. He is a past winner of MIT’s Goodwin Medal for Effective Teaching, the Fletcher School Paddock Teaching Award, and the Stein Rokan Award of the International Political Science Association, the ARNOVA Emerging Scholar Award, and the Pakistan Television Medal for Outstanding Achievement. Professor Najam is frequently interviewed by, and writes for the popular media and is the founding editor of the blog Pakistaniat.com.
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Taner Oc [+/-]
is an architect and urban designer with B.Arch and MCP degrees from the Middle East Technical University, an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Planning from the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught at the Middle East Technical University, Queen’s University Belfast, George Washington University and, for the past three decades, at the University of Nottingham, where he has been director of the Institute of Urban Planning since 1994. He was also vice dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Nottingham. His co–authored publications include Current Issues in Planning; Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration; Safer City Centres: Reviving the Public Realm; Revitalizing Historic Urban Quarters; and Public Places – Urban Spaces. He has also published a number of articles based on his research in academic and popular journals. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Urban Design, on the executive committee of AESOP for a number of years, and has acted as urban design track chair for AESOP, the World Congress in Shanghai, and, more recently, ACSP. Over the years he has collaborated closely with Tim Heath, Matthew Carmona and Steve Tiesdell. His research interests include cities and safety, the regeneration of historic urban quarters, planning and ethnic minorities, and public participation. His current research focus is cities for the aging population.
Laurie D. Olin [+/-]
is a professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, founding partner of the Olin Partnership, and a former chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard. Having studied civil engineering at the University of Alaska and architecture at the University of Washington, Olin has worked on projects such as Bryant Park in New York and the Brancusi Ensemble in Romania. Recent projects include the Simon and Helen Director Park in Portland and Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the recipient of the 1998 Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Gold Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2005.
David Orr [+/-]
is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College. He is also a James sh Professor at large at the University of Vermont. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania (1973). He and his wife have two sons and three grandchildren. He is the author of five books: Design on the Edge: The Making of a High Performance Building (MIT Press, 2006); The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment (Island Press, 2004); The Nature of Design (Oxford, 2002); Earth in Mind (Island, 1994/2004); Ecological Literacy (SUNY, 1992) and co–editor of The Global Predicament (North Carolina, 1979) and The Campus and Environmental Responsibility (Jossey–Bass, 1992). He has published 150 articles in scientific journals, social science publications, and popular magazines. He is best known for his pioneering work on environmental literacy in higher education and his recent work in ecological design. He raised funds for and spearheaded the effort to design and build a $7.2 million Environmental Studies Center at Oberlin College, a building described by the New York Times as “the most rekable” of a new generation of college buildings and by the U.S. Department of Energy as one of thirty “milestone buildings” of the 20th century. He is the recipient of a Bioneers Award (2003), a National Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Federation, a Lyndhurst Prize awarded by the Lyndhurst Foundation “to recognize the educational, cultural, and charitable activities of particular individuals of exceptional talent, character, and moral vision.” He was named “an Environmental Hero for 2004” by Interiors & Sources Magazine.
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Neal Peirce [+/-]
is a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post and the chairman of The Citistates Group, America’s only journalist team focused first and foremost on metropolitan regions. With Curtis Johnson, Peirce has co–authored the Peirce Reports (now called Citistates Reports), a publication focused on compelling issues of metropolitan futures for leading media in 25 regions across the nation. Recent reports include Boston Unbound, released in May 2004, and a series on the Charlotte Citistate for The Charlotte Observer. Peirce is also a principal author of a major report on approaching global urban challenges, Century of the City: No Time to Lose, based on the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2007 Global Urban Summit in Bellagio, Italy. His 10–book series on America’s states and regions culminated in The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today and, more recently, has published Citistates: How Urban America Can Prosper in a Competitive World; Boundary Crossers: Community Leadership for a Global Age; and Breakthroughs: Recreating The American City.
Himanshu Parikh [+/-]
obtained his Master’s degree in engineering sciences from Cambridge University. He practised in Cambridge for ten years before moving to India in 1982. In India, he has done innovative work in structural engineering as well as in urban planning, environmental upgradation and infrastructure design, with an emphasis on low–income urban and rural areas. His focus is to use water and environmental sanitation infrastructure as a principal catalyst of poverty alleviation. In structures, Mr. Parikh has developed the concept of ‘mindful buildings’ based on simplicity, frugality and multiplicity. Currently, he spends most of his time in India on developmental work, teaching intermittently in Ahmedabad and Cambridge. Mr. Parikh has held various positions outside his practice, including professor at the School of Planning, CEPT University, Ahmedabad, member of Governing Council of Department of Science and Technology and member of Working Group on Poverty Alleviation of Planning Commission, Government of India. Mr. Parikh has been the recipient of several awards including SOM Fazlur Khan Fellowship for excellence in structural engineering in 1985, the United Nations World Habitat Award for Urban Development in 1993, the United Nation Habitat II Best Practice recognition for Slum Networking in years 1996 and 2006, Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1998, a Citation by Government of India in 1998 and Ashoka Changemaker Award in 2008. In recognition of his contributions, in 2005 he was invited as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Arts, UK.
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce [+/-]
is a professor at Catholic University Santiago in Chile and also runs his own architecture practice. Prior to joining Catholic University, he taught at the AA School (1975–1990), and the University of Bath (1985–1990). Has also been a visiting professor at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Cornell, and for brief periods at other schools in the USA and Latin America. Currently he is visiting professor at the University of East London. Amongst his realized projects are a Cultural Centre, the renovation of a main square and a Crypt for the Metropolitan Cathedral, all of them in Santiago. He is currently engaged in urban projects in Valparaiso, and a field station in the Atacama Desert. His schemes have received various awards amongst them the architect’s biennial’s award and a commendation in the Mies Van Der Rohe’s Award for Latin American Architecture. He has published extensively, most recently in Birkhauser Verlag, Lotus International, Massilia, and ARQ editions, Santiago, where he has recently published Urban Domicile, a study of the apartment block. He is currently researching the subject of play in relation to architectural production, urban sites and landscape
Jose Picciotto [+/-]
is founder of Picciotto Architects and has developed various projects, including low–cost, mid–level and luxury housing, corporate buildings, and most recently industrial and hotel construction. The constant in his work has been energy efficiency, allowing low maintenance and operating costs. In 2002, he received the io Pani Award for Architect of the Year, awarded by Universidad Anáhuac del Norte in the state of Mexico. Other recognitions for his work include second place in the National Intelligent Building Award in 1994, given by the Mexican Institute for Intelligent Building (Instituto Mexicano del Edificio Inteligente IMEI) and third place in the National Energy Savings Award, granted in 1996 by the Energy Savings Trust (Fideicomiso para el Ahorro de Energía). For the Eclipse Insurgentes project, which currently houses the federal Energy Secretariat (Secretaría de Energía), he was recognized by the Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad). Picciotto is an alumnus and a member of the teaching staff at the Universidad Anáhuac.
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Jonas Rabinovitch [+/-]
is a Brazilian architect and urban planner with over 25 years of experience on urban design and policy. He has worked as city planner and adviser to the Mayor of the award–winning city of Curitiba, Brazil and, for the past 15 years, at the United Nations in New York. As senior urban development adviser for the United Nations Development Programme, he worked in more than 40 countries in support of programs on local capacity development, local governance, low–income housing, urban transport, land use, and participatory planning. Mr. Rabinovitch has managed the Public–Private Partnerships Programme, the Urban Management Programme, the Capacity 2015 Programme and other initiatives aimed at enhancing the contribution that people in cities and towns make towards development. He has also worked in the reconstruction of Kabul, in post–tsunami Maldives and in the sustainable development of East Timor, among various other challenges. He currently works on Public Administration innovations at the United Nations.
K.T. Ravindran [+/-]
is a professor and has been head of Urban Design at School of Planning and Architecture New Delhi since 1982. He is a member of the academic boards of number of universities in India and has been teaching Urban Morphology and Humanizing Cities in addition to his courses in the Urban Design Studio. He is the founder and president of the Institute of Urban Designers, India, a professional association of qualified urban designers. He has been a regular contributor to professional magazines and newspapers in India on subjects relating to urban design, planning, architecture and conservation. His practice includes the design of cultural buildings, memorials, urban conservation, and greenfield cities. He is the vice chairman of the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee of the Government of India which scrutinizes large projects all over India for their environmental fitness and management. Ravindran is at present chairman of the Delhi Urban Art Commission, a statutory body mediating aesthetics, environment and heritage in building and development projects. His research interests include contemporary urban history, indigenous urbanism, vernacular building traditions, sustainability and urban form. He is a frequent speaker at many national and international forums.
William Rees [+/-]
is a human ecologist, ecological economist, Professor and former Director of the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) in Vancouver, Canada, where he has taught since 1969–70. Professor Rees’ teaching and research focus on the socioeconomic and ecological prerequisites for regional and global sustainability. He is a founding member and past President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, a co–founder and Director of the OneEarth Initiative and a co–investigator in the Global Integrity Project. Prof Rees is perhaps best known as the originator of ‘ecological footprint analysis’, a quantitative sustainability assessment tool that is now used around the world and that has helped to reopen the debate on human carrying capacity. His 1996 book on the topic, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth, co–authored with then PhD student Dr Mathis Wackernagel, has been translated into eight languages including Chinese. His current book project asks: ‘Is Humanity Inherently Unsustainable?’ Prof Rees has also authored over 125 peer–reviewed academic papers and book chapters and numerous popular articles on humanity’s (un)sustainability conundrum. The influence of Prof Rees’ research and thinking is widely recognized and awarded. A dynamic speaker, he has lectured by invitation in 25 countries around the world; the Vancouver Sun named Prof Rees one of British Columbia’s top public intellectuals in 2000; in 2006 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and in 2007 he was awarded a prestigious Trudeau Foundation Fellowship.
Andrew Revkin [+/-]
is a reporter for The New York Times. He has spent nearly a quarter century covering subjects ranging from Hurricane Katrina and the Asian tsunami to the assault on the Amazon, from the troubled relationship of science and politics to climate change at the North Pole. Reporting on the environment for The New York Times has taken him to the Arctic three times in three years. In 2003, he became the first The New York Times reporter to file stories and photos from the sea ice around the Pole. He spearheaded a three–part Times series and one–hour documentary in 2005 on the transforming Arctic. Before joining The New York Times, Revkin was a senior editor of Discover, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, and a senior writer at Science Digest. Revkin has a degree in Biology from Brown and a Master’s degree in Journalism from Columbia. He has taught environmental reporting as an adjunct professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Judith Rodin [+/-]
became the president of the Rockefeller Foundation in 2005. From 1994–2004, she was the president of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and was a faculty member at Yale for 22 years before coming to the University of Pennsylvania. Under her leadership the University doubled its research funding and tripled its annual fundraising and the size of its endowment. As president of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Rodin largely oversaw strategies credited with revitalizing the University City and West Philadelphia neighborhoods. This revitalization was the effect of the University’s increased community development, investments in local education, and an architectural reorientation that opened up the campus to the surrounding areas. Dr. Rodin serves on number of leading non–profit and corporate boards. She has authored more than 200 academic articles and chapters and has co–written eleven books. She served on President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology and has received nine honorary doctorate degrees.
Witold Rybczynski [+/-]
is the Martin & Margy Meyerson Meyerson Professor of Urbanism and Professor of Real Estate at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches classes in design and development, architectural theory, and a freshman seminar on contemporary architecture. His research interests include urbanism and housing. Professor Rybczynski was previously professor of architecture at McGill University, Montreal; honorary fellow, American Institute of Architects; and honorary member, American Society of Landscape Architects. In 2007, he was awarded the Vincent Scully Prize, the Seaside Prize, and Collaborative Honors by the American Institute of Architects. He currently serves on the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts in Washington, D.C. Professor Rybczynski is the author of many acclaimed books including Home (1986), translated into ten languages; The Most Beautiful House in the World (1989); City Life (1995); A Clearing in the Distance (1999), a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted and winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize; The Look of Architecture (2000), and The Perfect House, on the villas of Palladio. He contributes regularly on architecture and urbanism to the New York Times, and the New York Review of Books and is architecture critic for the on–line magazine Slate. He is also Professor of Real Estate at the Wharton School, and founding co–editor of the Wharton Real Estate Review.
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Inga Saffron [+/-]
is the Architecture Critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Her award–winning column, Changing Skyline, appears on Fridays, and deals with a broad range of design, planning and urban issues. Ms. Saffron became the Inquirer’s Architecture Critic in 1999 after a spending nearly 15 years as a foreign, metro, and cultural reporter for the paper. She was based in Belgrade from 1991 to 1992 and covered the breakup of Yugoslavia. In 1994, the Inquirer sent her to Moscow, where she spent four years reporting on Russia’s post–Soviet disintegration, Boris Yeltsin’s erratic rule, and the former empire–s transition to democracy and capitalism. As a foreign correspondent, Ms. Saffron covered two wars, in the former Yugoslavia and in Chechnya, and witnessed the destruction of Sarajevo and Grozny. After returning to Philadelphia in 1998, she began writing about the city’s struggle to maintain its unique character and dense urban qualities in the face of pressure from America’s dominant automobile culture. She has twice been named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for criticism, in 2004 and 2008. In 2002, Broadway Books published Ms. Saffron’s cultural and environmental history, Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy. The book, which was based on reporting in Russia, Germany, France and the U.S., received favorable reviews in every major American newspaper. Ms. Saffron began her journalism career in Dublin, Ireland in 1979 and worked for the now–defunct Irish magazines, Magill and Hibernia. She went to work for The Courier–News in Bridgewater, N.J. in 1981 and joined the Inquirer in 1985. She lives with her family in Philadelphia.
Robert Socolow [+/-]
is a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. His current research focuses on global carbon management, the hydrogen economy, and fossil–carbon sequestration. He is the co–principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), a $20–million dollar, ten–year (2001–2010) project, supported by BP and Ford. Under CMI, Princeton has launched new, coordinated research in environmental science, energy technology, geological engineering, and public policy. Other research interests include efficient use of energy, renewable energy, nuclear energy, and the nitrogen cycle. Socolow’s early work on energy efficiency in buildings is sumized in Saving Energy in the Home: Princeton’s Experiments at Twin Rivers, Ballinger, 1978.
Barbara Southworth [+/-]
is an architect, urban designer and city planner based in Cape Town, South Africa where she is the Director of City Think Space, an urban design, city planning and project strategy practice. She is a graduate of the University of Natal where she completed her degree in architecture in 1991 and then went on to read for her masters in Urban Design & City Planning at the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1997. She has worked as an architect and urban designer in the private sector in Britain and South Africa. She worked for 9 years in the public sector and held the post of Director of Spatial Planning & Urban Design at the City of Cape Town before setting up City Think Space in 2007. She has also taught as a contract lecturer and studio master in the Urban Design Planning and Landscape masters program at the University of Cape Town. She is a founding member of the Urban Design Institute of South Africa and currently serves as the Chairman. For her role in initiating and coordinating the Dignified Places Programme, she was awarded the 2003 Ralph Erskine Prize, in recognition of architects whose work has benefited the underprivileged of the world. The City of Cape Town’s Urban Design Branch, under her leadership, won joint first prize for the Africa region in the Union of lnternational Architect’s 2004 Celebration of Cities Competition. She recently participated as an expert contributor to the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, entitled Ecotopedia and centered around the sustainability of Cities as well as the Copenhangen Agenda for Sustainable Cities.
Alex Steffen [+/-]
is executive editor and co–founder of Worldchanging, He co–founded the organization as the next phase in a lifetime of work exploring ways of building a better future. In a very short time, Worldchanging has become the most widely–read sustainability–related publication on the Internet, with an archive of over 7,000 articles by leading thinkers around the world. It’s played an important role in revealing formerly obscure innovations and groundbreaking ideas, thereby pushing forward the sustainability movement and assisting in the growth of its network. The critically–acclaimed site won the Utne Independent Press Award in 2004, and was nominated for Webby’s (the Oscars of the Net) for Best Blog and Best Magazine, as well as for Bloggies for Best Writing and Best Group Weblog. Steffen was also the editor of Worldchanging’s wildly successful first book, Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century (Abrams, 2006). In its first six months, Worldchanging has been an Amazon bestseller in the US and Canada, and has gleaned wide acclaim. He has also spoken and keynoted at the most renowned design and innovation conferences in the world, including TED, Pop!Tech, Tallberg, Design Indaba, South by Southwest Interactive and Doors of Perception, as well as at a number of environmental and sustainability. Recently he has been the subject of a CNN documentary which envisions possibilities for the future, and was featured as one of six leading innovators in The New York Times Sunday Magazine’s "Ecotecture" issue.
Frederick Steiner [+/-]
Frederick Steiner is the Henry M. Rockwell Chair in Architecture and dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Academy in Rome as well as an academic fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He is a visiting professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, and was a Fulbright research scholar at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. Dean Steiner has worked with local, state, and federal agencies on diverse environmental plans and designs. During 2006 and 2007, he chaired the five–county Envision Central Texas Project, having served on its board of directors and executive committee since ECT was established in 2002. He was part of a University of Texas team that organized an exhibit on the resilience of the Gulf Coast and the city of New Orleans for the 2006 Venice Biennale. In 2005, he was on a team, selected from over 1,000 entries, to be one of five finalists in the United Flight 93 National Memorial Competition in Pennsylvania. His most recent books include; The Essential Ian McHarg: Writings on Design and Nature (Island Press, 2007), Planning and Urban Design Standards: Student Edition (with Kent Butler, John Wiley & Sons, 2006), and Human Ecology: Following Nature’s Lead (Island Press, 2002). He teaches courses in the areas of environmental impact assessment, landscape analysis, and landscape architecture theory.
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Marilyn Jordan Taylor [+/-]
has recently been named dean of the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania, effective October 1, 2008. Taylor, partner in charge of the Urban Design and Planning Practice at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP and the first woman to serve as chairman of the firm, is internationally known for her involvement in the design of large–scale urban projects and civic initiatives. During a 35–year career with Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Taylor has led many of the firm’s largest and most complex projects around the world. She was also the first architect and the first woman to serve as chairman of the Urban Land Institute, a non–profit research and educational institution, where she championed a renewed focus on cities, sustainable communities and infrastructure investment. She has served as a member of The Partnership for New York City, president of the New York City chapter of the American Institute of Architects and a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is a founding member of the New York New Visions Design and Planning Coalition and serves on the Advisory Board of the Penn Institute for Urban Research.
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Karen Van Lengen [+/-]
is dean of the University of Virginia Architecture School and Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture. She has led the Architecture School in its distinguished role as an eminent institution for the comprehensive study and design of the environment. As the former chair of architecture at Parsons School of Design, Van Lengen founded the Design Workshop Program, an integrated design build studio that is a signature part of the Parson’s ch curriculum. At the University of Virginia she founded Campbell Constructions, a faculty design program to recreate the Architecture School’s home, Campbell Hall, using faculty designers to transform the building and its landscapes. She created the new Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture to promote a more synthetic relationship between these two disciplines and has championed the development of a fully integrated set of programs that address “Urgent Matters” of contemporary society. This concept champions the synthesis of aesthetics and ecology in the context of today’s dynamic technological revolution. She is currently working with other university scholars to establish a pan–university initiative on the improvement of the environment. Prior to her academic career she was an Associate at I M Pei & Partners before founding her own firm in New York City that won numerous awards and citations.
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Susan Wachter [+/-]
is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Co-Director, Penn Institute for Urban Research and the Director of the Wharton Geospatial Initiative. At Penn, Dr. Wachter served as chair of its Real Estate Department from 1997 to 1999. Dr. Wachter served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a President appointed and Senate confirmed position, from 1998 to 2001. Dr. Wachter lectures internationally to a diverse range of audiences from policy makers to industry groups on local governance, economic development and housing. She held the Celia Moh Visiting Professor Chair at Singapore Management University in 2006. Dr. Wachter is the author of over 150 publications. Her research on quantifying the impacts of greening has generated much interest. Her current research is directed towards modeling default and delinquency, tenure choice and homeownership affordability, real estate price index methodologies, and modeling neighborhood change and sustainable homeownership.
Lin Wang [+/-]
is the deputy director for Administration Department of Historical Areas, Urban Design and Urban Sculpture in the Shanghai Urban Planning Administration Bureau. In this role she helps shape one of the most rapidly growing cities in the world. She has been among the leading advocates in China for preserving culturally important buildings and city districts as her nation moves rapidly into the 21st century. She also plays an important role in bringing public art to Shanghai and has commissioned works as well as managed competitions to attract the new works of significant artists for Shanghai 2010 World Expo. Under her leadership, her department organized the survey of historic culture relics of Shanghai, established 44 historic areas of total 41 square kilometers, and finished all detail planning on those areas. This plan won a national urban planning award from the Construction Ministry of China in 2005. The latest important project organized by her department is the renovation urban design of the Bund, the most significant historic landmark of Shanghai. Wang studied urban planning and earned her Master and PhD. in urban planning at Tongji University in Shanghai in 1998. Upon the base of her PhD. thesis, she wrote a book "Preservation Theory and Preservation Planning of Well–Known Historic Cultural Cities," which is the most widely used text book on the subject in China. Wang is now one of the Loeb Fellows 2008–2009 of Harvard. She will focus her study on urban design and preservation systems, planning administration and strategies of the world metropolis development.
Charles Waldheim [+/-]
is Associate Dean and Director of the Landscape Architecture Program in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. Waldheim’s work examines the relationships between landscape and contemporary urbanism. He coined the term "landscape urbanism" to describe the recent emergence of landscape as a medium of urban order for the contemporary city. He has authored numerous articles and chapters on the topic, and recently edited: The Landscape Urbanism Reader (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006). Waldheim’s writing on landscape and urbanism has appeared in Landscape Journal, Topos, Log, Praxis, 306090, Canadian Architect, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Waldheim has received numerous awards and honours for his work including the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome; the Visiting Scholar Research Fellowship at the Study Centre of the Canadian Centre for Architecture; the National Citation for Outstanding Professional Achievement from the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects; the Citation for Excellence from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, and the Sanders Fellowship from the University of Michigan. He has taught as a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Rice University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, the ETH Swiss Federal Technical Institute Zurich, and the Technical University Vienna.
Alexandros E. Washburn , AIA[+/-]
is the Chief Urban Designer of the City of New York, Department of City Planning. An architect who has worked both in the private and public sector, he served as Environment and Public Works Advisor to US Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then as President of the Pennsylvania Station Redevelopment Corporation, and then partner of W Architecture and Landscape Architecture LLC. From individual buildings to the most complex infrastructure projects, he judges success in urban design from the point of view of the pedestrian. In his daily work, he tries to achieve the "quantity of Robert Moses with the quality of Jane Jacobs." And for this missing link – between the human–scale and the mega–project – he turns to another great New Yorker, Fredrick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park, for inspiration. He sees the integration of urbanity and ecology as the next great wave in city–building. Alex lives with his family in Red Hook, Brooklyn and is currently writing a book, The Nature of Urban Design.
Marion Weiss [+/-]
Marion Weiss is the Graham Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. She teaches design studios and seminars on the intersection of architecture, art, urbanism and landscape. She received her bachelor of Architecture from the University of Virginia and her master of Architecture from Yale University. At Yale, she won the Skidmore, Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship and the American Institute of Architects Scholastic Award, and following graduation, won the AAUW National Emerging Scholar Award. She was a Gensler Visiting Critic at Cornell University and has also taught design studios at Yale University.
Jane Wolff [+/-]
is an associate professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. She began her career as a landscape and urban designer in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her project experience ranged from private gardens to urban design guidelines for the Main Post of the Presidio of San Francisco. Before her appointment at the University of Toronto, she taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Ohio State University’s Knowlton School of Architecture, and Washington University’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Design. She is the author of Delta Primer, a book designed to educate diverse audiences about the contested landscape of the California Delta. Her research deals with the hybrid landscapes produced by natural process and cultural intervention. Her study topics have included the architecture of the Finnish railway system, the history of land reclamation in the Netherlands, and the reconstructed landscapes of the Tennessee Valley Authority; current projects in progress deal with the urban ecology of Saint Louis, the rehabilitation of Pontchartrain Park, New Orleans, and a new Bay Observatory at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Ding Wowo [+/-]
graduated the from with a BA and an MA from Department of Architecture of Southeast University (SEU). Between 1988 and 1989, she studied in Department of Architecture at ETH–Zurich and 1994 she began a two–year appointment as a Visiting Assistant Professor in ETH–Zurich, during which period she earned a Nachdiplom. In 2001, she earned her PhD from ETH–Zurich. From 1998, she was a professor in the department of Architecture at Southeast University. In 2000, she moved to the Graduate School of Architecture at Nanjing University, where she is now dean of the School of Architecture at Nanjing University. She has been awarded prizes from the State Board of Education for her teaching, and, as an architect, she has received many awards for design and construction. Since 1993 she has enjoyed a special allowance from the State Council. Recently, her research explores urban theory and methodology and computer–aided architectural design. She supervises her university’s graduate program and oversees the conceptual design studio and courses in design methodology and architectural theory.
Jiang Wu[+/-]
is the deputy director general of the Shanghai Municipal Urban Planning Administration Bureau and is a 1st class registered architect of China. He taught History and Theory of Architecture, Urban Design and Historical Preservation at Tongji University from 1986 to 2003, and was a visiting scholar in the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University from 1996 to 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he was the deputy dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, and from 2001 to 2003, he was the assistant president of Tongji University. In the past 20 years, Wu has published more than 10 books and more than 60 articles in his research fields. He obtained his Bachelor, Master and Doctoral degrees in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, Shanghai.
Richard Saul Wurman [+/-]
is currently working on a project, 19.20.21, which he created and chairs with his four partners: Larry Keeley, Jon Kamen, Michael Hawley, and Robert Friedman. He began the singular passion of his life: making information understandable, with the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26. He chaired the International Design in Aspen in 1972, the first Federal Design Assembly in 1973, followed by the National AIA Convention in 1976, before creating and chairing TED (Technology/Entertainment/Design) conferences from 1984–2002. He created and chaired the TEDMED and eg2006 conferences. He received a B.Arch and M.Arch with highest honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1959. The nearly half–century of achievements include the publication of his award winning ACCESS Travel Guides. His most recent publications include UNDERSTANDING USA and UNDERSTANDING Healthcare. Each of his 81 books focus on some subject or idea that he personally had difficulty understanding. He has been awarded several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Graham Fellowships, two Chandler Fellowships, and the Chrysler Design Award in 1996. In 1991, Wurman received the Kevin Lynch Award from MIT and was honored by a retrospective exhibition of his work at the AXIS Design Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. He received a Doctorate of Fine Arts by the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA, an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Art Center College of Design and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Boston.
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Robert D. Yaro [+/-]
is the president of Regional Plan Association (RPA), America’s oldest independent metropolitan policy, research and advocacy group. Based in Manhattan, RPA promotes plans, policies and investments needed to improve the quality of life and competitiveness of the New York Metropolitan Region, America’s largest urban area. Yaro Co–chairs the Empire State Transportation Alliance and the Friends of Moynihan Station, and is Vice President of the Forum for Urban Design. He serves on Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability Advisory Board, which helped prepare PlaNYC 2030, New York City’s new long–range sustainability plan. Since 2001 Mr. Yaro has been Professor of Practice in City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. He also taught at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts. He holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University and a Bachelors Degree in Urban Studies from Wesleyan University.
Norbert W. Young, Jr. [+/-]
is president of McGraw–Hill Construction. Norbert joined the McGraw–Hill Companies in December 1997 as vice president, editorial, for Dodge, bringing a considerable body of knowledge and experience to the company. In recognition of the k that he has made, he received McGraw–Hill’s prestigious Excellence in Management Award in 2003. Prior to McGraw–Hill, he was president of the Bovis Construction Group’s Bovis Management Systems; was a partner at Toombs Development Company, where he managed all aspects of design and construction; and spent 12 years as a practicing architect in Philadelphia. Young is a registered architect who holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. His professional affiliations include The American Institute of Architects, where he is a Fellow; the Urban Land Institute; the Construction Specifications Institute; and the International Alliance for Interoperability, where he served as Chairman of the IAI–NA Board of Directors. In addition, Norbert is a trustee of the National Building Museum and is former chairman of the board of regents of the American Architectural Foundation. He is also a member of the Construction Users Roundtable, a national organization of over 50 major owners focused on providing the "voice of the owner" to the design and construction industry.
Kongjian Yu [+/-]
received his PhD from Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995. After two years in the Laguna, CA office of SWA Group, he joined the faculty of urban and regional planning at Peking University and founded and became dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University. He is also the founder and president of Turenscape, an internationally–awarded firm with more than 300 professionals and one of the first and largest private landscape architecture and architecture firms in China. Dr. Yu is a five–time winner of American Society of Landscape Architects Honor Awards for his ecologically and culturally sensitive projects. In 2004, Dr. Yu won China’s National Gold Medal of Fine Arts and was awarded the Oversea Chinese Pioneer Achievement Medal for his overall contribution to the nation. Dr. Yu was the keynote speaker for the 40th and 43rd IFLA World Congresses, and the 2006 and 2008 ASLA annual conferences. He serves as consulting expert for the Ministry of Housing, Rural and Urban Construction of China for the cities of Beijing and Suzhou. Dr. Yu has published more than 200 papers and 15 books. His current book is The Art of Survival–Recovering Landscape Architecture. He is the chief editor of Landscape Architecture China. His major research interests include the theory and method of landscape architecture, urban planning for sustainable cities, cultural heritage, and ecological planning.
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