Streets present a viable opportunity to create a range of compelling urban experiences for people beyond traditional shopping and commercial activities. This session explores different roles for streets—from providing varied recreational options to offering different types of commerce. Learn about recent efforts in Portland, Vancouver, and San Francisco to reconsider street character and purpose and change the way cities approach streets and development in dense, mixed-use urban areas.
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Margot Long
PLW Partnership
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Bio: Margot is a Principal with PWL Partnership Landscape Architects Inc. in Vancouver, BC and a Fellow of the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects. She holds a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Oregon and has over 25 years of experience in private practice, specializing in public realm projects throughout British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest, and abroad. She provides unique and innovative design solutions, which build the physical, historical, and cultural context of a given site. Margot and the firm’s primary focus are on waterfront, community and public realm projects and her portfolio includes numerous public projects that have contributed to countless projects that have a strong social and environmental mandate.
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David M. Alumbaugh
Director, City Design Group
San Francisco Planning Dept.
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Bio: David Alumbaugh directs the San Francisco Planning Department’s City Design Group, which concerns itself with city design, urban design, and the quality of the public realm. His work focuses on public realm planning, complete street design, and broad policy development that addresses urban design and the public realm. Mr. Alumbaugh recently has been exploring the issues of tactical urbanism through the Pavement to Parks Program – which includes the ever-popular Parklets Initiative – and continues to pilot emerging tactics for reclaiming the public realm for people. In addition to his recent work, Mr. Alumbaugh established San Francisco’s successful Better Neighborhoods program, helped initiate the San Francisco Better Streets Plan, managed several comprehensive plans for new residential districts in downtown San Francisco, helped initiate and create a high-density downtown office district plan for the San Francisco terminus of the proposed California High Speed Rail, and collaborated on other comprehensive mixed-use neighborhoods around the city.
Education: Mr. Alumbaugh holds a masters degree (MCP) in city and regional planning (urban design) from the University of California at Berkeley and an undergraduate degree (BLA) in landscape architecture from the University of Oregon.
Other Publications: San Francisco Parklets Manual, 2013; San Francisco Downtown Transit Center District Plan, 2012; San Francisco Better Streets Plan, 2011.
Past Assignments: Commercial Real Estate Women SF (CREW)2013: Planning for Office Space in the City. APA National Conference 2012: City Design Offices. ASLA National Conference 2012: Reclaiming the Public Realm in the Metropolis. ASLA Webinar 2013: Reclaiming the Public Realm in the Metropolis.
Mark Raggett
Urban Designer Ii
City of Portland
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Bio: Mark Raggett is a senior planner at the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning & Sustainability. He has worked as an urban designer in the bureau’s Urban Design Studio for 12 years on a variety of regional, citywide and local urban design, planning and place-making efforts. Included in his experience are larger regional transportation/transit infrastructure projects such as the Columbia River Crossing, the Transit Mall Revitalization and Portland Milwaukie Light Rail efforts, done in conjunction with local, state and regional partners. He has also worked on numerous district and neighborhood plans throughout the city, such as the South Waterfront Plan, the North/Northeast Quadrant Plan, the North Interstate Corridor Plan, the North Pearl District Plan, and the 122nd Avenue Station Area Study. His work has spanned a broad range of topic areas, among them hosting and managing urban design charrettes, design guideline document production, and specific streetscape and open space design concept development.
Education: He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Masters of Architecture in 1999.
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Karl Dengler Lisle, AICP
Senior Planner
City of Portland
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Bio: Karl Lisle is a Senior Planner with the City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. Karl has specialized in long range planning and development issues including urban renewal, zoning, historic preservation, retail, housing and economic development in Portland’s Central City and Downtown since 2005. Prior to focusing on the evolution and development of Portland’s Central City, Karl worked on strategic and comprehensive planning and regional growth management both in the Portland Metropolitan Area and in California’s San Francisco Bay Area.
Education: Karl holds a masters degree in urban planning from the University of Toronto and undergraduate degrees in geography and French from the University of Oregon.
Past Assignments: American Planning Association National Conference; New Orleans, LA; April 2010: “Sustainable University City Redevelopment Partnerships” (Presenter & Panelist) American Planning Association National Conference; Minneapolis, MN; April 2009: “Central Portland’s 3D Land Use Inventory” (Technical Showcase Presenter) The Strategy Institute: The Future of Canada’s Infrastructure; Toronto, ON; June 2009: “Creating Livable Cities: A Comprehensive Green Approach to Growth and Economic Vibrancy” (Portland Case Study Presenter)
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