Paul J. Armstrong, RA, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Design Faculty in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin–Superior and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. He is a licensed architect, and prior to joining the faculty at the University of Illinois, he was a senior designer for Harding and Associates in Chicago. Professor Armstrong has written extensively on urban design and, most notably, on the architecture of tall buildings.
Donald K. Carter, FAIA, FAICP, LEED-AP, is David Lewis Director of Urban Design and Regional Engagement of the Remaking Cities Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. He also teaches in the Master of Urban Design program in the School of Architecture. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University in July 2009, Professor Carter was President of Urban Design Associates, where he led many of the firm’s most complex projects, drawing on his broad international experience as an architect, urban designer, and developer. He continues to serve as consulting principal to the firm. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), where he was national Chair of the Inner City Council. Previously, at ULI he served on the Affordable Housing Forum, Infill Development Forum, Residential Development Council, and Entertainment Development Council. Professor Carter is past Chair of the ULI Pittsburgh District Council, and past President of the Pittsburgh Chapter, AIA. He has lectured and published internationally on urban design and architecture. He currently serves on the board of the Andy Warhol Museum, and previously served on the boards of the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, Pittsburgh Zoo, Leadership Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and LaRoche College Board of Regents. Don earned a Bachelor of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University and did postgraduate work in urban design and regional planning at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Lynne M. Dearborn, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Dearborn’s research explores residential choices and residential qualities for marginalized populations, architectural responses to social injustice, and the role of the environment in the lives of immigrant and minority populations in the United States. Professor Dearborn currently serves as Co-director of the East St. Louis Action Research Project. She is a licensed architect and received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 2004.
Richard Florida has spent his life studying, living in, and helping to revitalize great industrial cities. Shaped by his childhood in working-class enclaves in and around Newark, New Jersey, he has lived and taught in Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and most recently Toronto, Ontario. He directs the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and is Senior Editor of the Atlantic. His books include the Rise of the Creative Class, Who’s Your City? and, most recently, The Great Reset.
Norman W. Garrick, Ph.D., PE, is Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of Transportation and Urban Planning at the University of Connecticut. Professor Garrick serves as a board member for the Congress of New Urbanism and has written extensively on transportation issues in city centers. He has served as a transportation consultant for numerous cities including North Charleston, South Carolina, and Hartford, Connecticut, and for the Mississippi Gulf Coast, post-Katrina. He holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. in civil engineering from Purdue University.
Mark L. Gillem, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Oregon School of Architecture and Allied Arts. Professor Gillem’s teaching and research centers on the balance between theory and practice and is interested in developing new ways community participation can play a more important role in urban design. His book America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire (University of Minnesota Press, 2007) explored the impact of U.S. armed forces on the landscape of foreign countries. Professor Gillem is a licensed architect and received his Ph.D. in architecture from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004.
Robert Greenstreet, Ph.D., is an architect and Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Dr. Greenstreet specializes in the legal aspects of construction. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, has contributed to twenty other texts and handbooks, and has published over 150 working papers and articles. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is listed in fifteen international Who’s Who publications. In addition to being a registered architect in the United Kingdom, he is a practicing arbitrator, mediator, and expert witness recognized in both the United States and Europe.
Craig Harlan Hullinger, AICP, is Partner in the City Planning and Economic Development consulting firm of Ruyle Hullinger and Associates. He has over 35 years of experience in city planning and economic development. Hullinger holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Planning from Governor’s State University. He is member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, is a Vietnam veteran, and is a retired Colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve.
Paul Hardin Kapp, AIA, LEED-AP, is Associate Professor and Chair of the History and Preservation Faculty in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to teaching, he was a practicing architect in historic preservation. He received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and his Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania. He was the historical architect of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) and was also a lecturer in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UNC.
Ray Lees is Principal with the national architectural/engineering firm PSA-Dewberry. During his 34 years of practice in the architectural/engineering industry, he has been responsible for project and client development throughout the United States for a wide range of commercial, health-care, education, justice, civic, and wellness/fitness facilities, with a total market value of over $3 billion. He is very active in civic affairs, developing a particular interest in and passion for effective and sustainable community planning through his two decades of service on the City of Peoria Planning Commission, for which he has served as chair the past 15 years. Ray is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Emil Malizia, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His areas of expertise include real estate and economic development, with emphasis on urban redevelopment, market research, development finance, and fiscal and economic impact analysis. His recent work focuses on impact fee methodologies and the relationships between the built environment and public health. For over four decades, he has conducted research, taught graduate-level and in-service courses, and engaged in consulting for private, foundation, public, and community-based clients. Dr. Malizia is the author or coauthor of four books and over 140 scholarly articles, monographs, and other publications. During leaves, he has worked as a senior adviser at MONY Real Estate Investment Management in New York City, as a visiting professor at School of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, and in federal service at the U.S. Department of Labor. His planning and development work abroad has taken him to Austria, Colombia, Jamaica, and Nova Scotia. He is a member of the American Planning Association, American Real Estate Society, International Economic Development Council, and Urban Land Institute. He received his master’s and doctoral degrees from Cornell University in city and regional planning and his baccalaureate from Rutgers University.
John O. Norquist is President and CEO of the Congress of the New Urbanism. Mr. Norquist works to promote New Urbanism as an alternative to sprawl and antidote to sprawl’s social and environmental problems. He was the Mayor of Milwaukee from 1988 to 2004. Under his leadership, Milwaukee experienced a decline in poverty, saw a boom in new downtown housing, and became a leading center of education and welfare reform. He has overseen a revision of the city’s zoning code and reoriented development around walkable streets and public amenities such as the city’s 3.1-mile Riverwalk. He has drawn widespread recognition for championing the removal of a 0.8-mile stretch of elevated freeway, clearing the way for an anticipated $250 million in development in the heart of Milwaukee. A leader in national discussions of urban design and educational issues, Mr. Norquist is the author of The Wealth of Cities and has taught courses in urban policy and urban planning at the University of Chicago, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Marquette University. Mr. Norquist received both his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin.
Christine Scott Thomson, Adjunct Professor and Researcher in the Department of Architecture, received a master’s in Architecture and a master’s in Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia and an undergraduate degree in Geology and Urban Studies from Brown University. Her research interests include undergraduate and graduate design, urban planning, and site and community ecology. She is currently teaching an undergraduate course in architectural design and pursuing grant opportunities in green building and sustainable community design. Professor Thomson recently copresented with collaborators from the Technical University in Graz, Austria, at the Fabos International Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning in Budapest, Hungary, on the topic of ecological urbanism as a framework for renewing small communities.
James H. Wasley, AIA, LEED-AP, is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM). He is a past president of both the Society of Building Science Educators and the Wisconsin Green Building Alliance: An Affiliate of the United States Green Building Council, which he helped to found in 1997. In relation to this essay, Professor Wasley’s current research and teaching involves the creation of a “zero-discharge” stormwater masterplan for the UWM campus and the design and implementation of demonstration projects within that ecologically progressive framework. In 2005 he was recognized by the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment for promoting “Ecological Literacy in Architectural Education” for courses and activities featuring a similar blend of academic research, teaching, and environmental activism promoting the adoption of green building standards throughout the University of Wisconsin System.