Bio: Director, Urban Sustainability Accelerator, Portland State University 2012 - present Research Associate and Director, Sustainable Cities Initiative, University of Oregon 2011-2012 Metro Councilor, metropolitan Portland, Oregon (elected regional government official)2005-2011 Senior Counsel, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, 2003 -2006 Executive Director, 1000 Friends of Oregon 1993 - 2002 Land Use Hearings Officer, attorney & consultant 1990 -1993 Staff Attorney, 1000 Friends of Oregon 1981 - 1990
Education: BA Political Science University of Oregon Honors College MA Modern History Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar) JD Harvard Law School 1981 Loeb Fellow Harvard Graduate School of Design
Key Publications: Growth Along Corridors: Another Strategy for Portland's Growth Portland State University Center for Real Estate Quarterly & Urban Development Journal 2nd Quarter http://www.pdx.edu/sites/www.pdx.edu.realestate/files/media_assets/RE_2008quarterly Give and take Over Measure 37: Could Metro Reconcile Compensation for Reductions in Value with a Regional Plan for Compact Urban Growth and Preserving Farmland? Environmental Law, Lewis & Clark Law School Law Review, Spring 2006 Exclusionary Zoning: The Common Enemy Of Environmentalists & Affordable Housing Advocates prepared for the Boston College Law School’s Environmental Affairs Law Review, May 2003 Oregon’s Ballot Measure 7 prepared for the Georgetown University Law Center’s Continuing Legal Education Program (October 2001) Oregon's Farmland Protection Program a paper presented at “The Performance of State Programs for Farmland Retention: A National Research Conference” sponsored by Ohio State University Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Columbus Ohio, (September 1998) Oregon's Comprehensive Growth Management Program: An Implementation Review and Lessons for Other States published by the Environmental Law Institute's ENVIRONMENTAL LAW REPORTER, June 1992.
Past Assignments: "Rising to the challenge: The role of planners and regulators in creating a sustainable civilization" Norman Williams Memorial Lecture, Vermont Law School (February 7, 2013) “The Oregon Land Use Planning Program: Performance & Relevance” Lincoln Institute Center at Peking University, Beijing, China (July 5, 2012) “Applications of Evidence-Based Sustainability: The Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Experience” part of the Evidence Based Sustainability short course at the 2012 American Planning Association Annual Conference in Los Angeles (April 15, 2012) “Creating sustainable cities for the metropolitan planet: What our universities can contribute” presentation at Transformative Research Initiative symposium, University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand (November 23, 2011) “Finding Nine New Paths to a More Sustainable City” keynote address at Second Annual Beijing Planning and Design Conference, Beijing China (August 25, 2011) Keynote address at the annual New Zealand Planning Institute Planning Conference, Wellington, New Zealand (March 30, 2011) “Adopting and implementing a metropolitan plan: Portland Metro's experience” Congress for the New Urbanism Project for Transportation Reform, Portland, Oregon (November 3, 2009) “Urban Redevelopment & Rural Conservation: The Twin Pillars of Sustainability” keynote speech, New Jersey Future Annual Redevelopment Conference, New Brunswick New Jersey (February 27, 2009) Critique of the American Planning Association’s Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook (presentation and paper) delivered at a symposium sponsored by the Brookings Institution, the American Planning Association, the University of Maryland’s National Center for Smart Growth Research and the University of Maryland Law School Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. (April 21, 2003) “New Partners for Smart Growth” opening plenary presentation for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s national conference, New Partners for Smart Growth: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities, New Orleans, Louisiana (January 30, 2003) “Le Rôle des Associations dans la Défense, la Mise en Place et l’Amélioration des Projets Concernant l’Aménagement du Territoire” presented at Vers des Collectivités Viables Symposium International en Faveur des Communautés Durables Organisé, Québec, Canada (6 Novembre 1999)
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