Presenter Biographies

Atlanta • November 12–15, 2008

Complete Streets

Barbara McCann, coordinator of the National Complete Streets Coalition, coined the term "complete streets," organized the Coalition, and conducts research on complete streets policies and implementation practices. She also maintains an independent consulting practice, using her expertise in transportation and land use to write books, articles, reports, and policy analysis for clients ranging from Environmental Defense to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Walter Kulash has more than 30 years of experience as a traffic engineer, for private consultants and currently as an independent public-interest traffic engineer. Kulash's approach to traffic engineering reaches for a new balance between the long-held engineering goal of moving as much traffic as efficiently as possible and the evolving view of streets as valuable for many other purposes.

Urban Design

Jonathan Barnett, FAICP, is an architect and planner, educator, and author of numerous books and articles on city design. He practices with Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC in Philadelphia. His work includes a study of land use and design related to transit for Xiamen, China; a 2,500-hectare planned community in Cambodia; and the citywide urban design plan Omaha by Design. His most recent book is Smart Growth in a Changing World from APA's Planners Press.

William A. Gilchrist is the director of the Department of Planning, Engineering & Permits for the City of Birmingham, Alabama. An alumnus of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Gilchrist speaks regularly on topics of design, urbanism, public spaces, citizen participation, regional planning, and the history of architecture and urban settlement.

Sustainable Zoning and Development Controls

Christopher Duerksen is managing director of Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC, a land use consulting firm. He has represented local governments, nonprofits, and the private sector in a variety of land-use and zoning matters and specializes in development code revisions, growth management planning, historic preservation, natural resource and scenic area protection strategies, airport-area development, and market development strategies. A co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute, Duerksen has written and spoken extensively on land use issues in Colorado and nationally.

James Duncan, FAICP, is one of the nation's leading urban planning and growth management practitioners. During his four-decade-long career, he has served more than 200 cities, counties, regions, and states, creating a series of award-winning comprehensive plans and development codes. He is a past president of APA, a former vice-chair of APA's Chapter Presidents Council, and the co-author of the APA Planners Press book Growth Management Principles & Practices.

Craig Richardson is a planner and lawyer with substantial national experience in implementing comprehensive plans, drafting development codes, developing growth management strategies, and planning capital facilities. As vice president of Clarion Associates, he directs the firm's North Carolina office and has served as a principal in the preparation of development codes for numerous cities and counties.

Energy and Climate Change

Reid Ewing is a research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, University of Maryland, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and fellow of the Urban Land Institute. He authored one of APA's best-selling books, Best Development Practices, and is the lead author of Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, recently published by the Urban Land Institute.

William Moomaw is professor of international environmental policy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he founded the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy and the Tufts Climate Initiative. He has been a lead author for four Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. He has served on a local planning board and as a regional planning commissioner.