We are just beginning to grapple with sustainability and urban design issues: the need for radical emission reductions, the growing impacts of climate change; trade-offs between affordable housing and transport costs; and the possibilities for distributed energy systems and electric cars.
The seminar highlighted some exciting environmental and social possibilities for our cities and feature innovative speakers and interactive sessions.
Reid Ewing is a Professor of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Early in his career, he served two terms in the Arizona legislature, worked on urban policy issues at the Congressional Budget Office, and taught city planning in Iran and Ghana. He holds masters degrees in Engineering and City Planning from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Transportation Systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research and writing are aimed at planning practitioners. He authored Developing Successful New Communities for the Urban Land Institute; Best Development Practices and Transportation and Land Use Innovations for the American Planning Association; and Traffic Calming State-of-the-Practice for the Institute of Transportation Engineers. The two books for the American Planning Association made him APA’s top selling author for many years. His most recent book, written for EPA and published by the Urban Land Institute, is Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. Due out in 2009, and co-published by the American Planning Association and American Society of Civil Engineers, is U.S. Traffic Calming Manual.
His study of sprawl and obesity, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, received more national media coverage than any planning study before or since, reaching an estimated 41 million Americans. It was the most widely cited academic paper in the Social Sciences as of late 2005, according to Essential Science Indicators. His 1997 point-counterpoint on urban sprawl is listed as a classic by the American Planning Association. This year and next (2008-09), his research will be published in the Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Urban Design, Urban Design International, Journal of Urbanism, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Transportation Research Record, and ITE Journal.
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