Bio: Thomas Low is a registered architect and certified planner. He is the Director of DPZ Charlotte, the Chair of the Civic By Design Center, a LEED Accredited Professional, a Charter Member and Accredtted Professional of the Congress for the New Urbanism, a Member of the American Institute of Architects, and a Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Education: Master of Architecture in Urbanism, University of Miami, School of Architecture, Miami, FL; Bachelor of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
Key Publications: Light Imprint Handbook: Integrating Sustainability and Community Design - www.amazon.com; Light Imprint interactive web site - www.lightimprint.org.; Choosing a Stormwater Management Tool? Consider Light Imprint article - http://digital.stormh2o.com/iphone/?i=61938&p=30#_m0; Sustainable and Resilient Communities, chapter on Light Imprint
Other Publications: Civic By Design: John Nolen's Lessons and the New Urbanism; Mixopoly, an interactive community design tool; The Light Imprinter's Growers and Dwellers Almanac
Past Assignments: Sprawl Repair and Light Imprint - Smart Growth Summit, Baton Rouge LA; Light Imprint Case Studies for Cost Savings and Community Design, EPA, Washington DC; Mixopoly workshop, Housing for the Aging Coalition, Indianapolis IN; Light Imprint and Sprawl Repair - Railvolution, Washington DC; Sprawl Repair - EPA Sustainable Communities, Washington DC; Mobile tour of Charlotte's great neighborhoods - International Downtown Development Associate conference, Charlotte NC; Insite 11 Rethink Refurbishment BRE Innovation Park, London UK; Sustainable and Resilient Communities webinar, National Charrette Institute; Mixopoly workshop on Mixed-Income Housing, Charlotte NC; Light Imprint 101 and 102 courses and 103 workshop - Sustainable Growth and Economic Development Lecture Series, South Carolina
Bio: Bob Kost is certified community planner, licensed landscape architect and LEED Accredited Professional with over 30 years of experience assisting communities create meaningful places to live work and play. He is the Director of Planning and Urban Design for Short Elliott Hendrickson, Inc., an interdisciplinary consulting firm with office throughout the upper Mid-west. He has worked at a range of scales and in a variety of communities from the planning and design of Debuque, Iowa's downtown riverfront to the creation of a new form-based zoning code for the Town of Burns Harbor, Indiana. He is a founding member of New Urbanism Minnesota, and strives to apply smart growth and sustainable design principles to improve community livability. He served as the project manager and lead urban designer for the development of a new zoning framework fro guiding the sustainable redevelopment of the the historic Ford Motor Company manufacturing site in Saint Paul, MN.
Education: Bachelors of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois. Continuing Education in Charrette Facilitation, Form-Based Zoning, Traffic Calming and CPTED.
Past Assignments: Form-Based Zoning in The River City- 2009 Annual Iowa APA Conference; Past Pefect/Future Tense, Historic preservation and Sustainable Design - 2008 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference, Washington,DC; Form-Based Planiing and Zoning-2007 Land Development West Conference, San Diego, CA; Historic Harbor Renaissance at Tower,MN:Drawing on the Past to Shape a Sustainable Future- 2007 Annual Minnesota State Planning Conference.
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