Peer Reviewed Title: Contributors Journal Issue: Places, 18(1) Publication Date: 2006 Publication Info: Places Permalink: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/42913487 Acknowledgements: This article was originally produced in Places Journal. To subscribe, visit www.places-journal.org. For reprint information, contact [email protected]. Keywords: places, placemaking, architecture, environment, landscape, urban design, public realm, planning, design, contributors Copyright Information: All rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. Contact the author or original publisher for any necessary permissions. eScholarship is not the copyright owner for deposited works. Learn more at http://www.escholarship.org/help_copyright.html#reuse eScholarship provides open access, scholarly publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide. Contributors Charles C. Bohl became the founding Director of Rep. Robert L. Freeman (D-136, Northampton) Lisa Silvestri was born and raised in New Orleans. the interdisciplinary Knight Program in Community was born in Easton, PA, and holds a Masters degree in She has lived in New York for the last 26 years and has Building at the University of Miami’s School of history from Lehigh University. He was fi rst elected worked in many aspects of design and photography. Architecture in 2000. He is a Research Associate to the Pennsylvania House in 1982 and served six two- Her photography can be seen in Visions of Mary (Abrams, Professor in the School of Architecture and teaches year terms before leaving to pursue an unsuccessful bid 2004), Latina magazine, and various other publications. the planning, design and development of livable for the State Senate in 1994. He returned to the House communities. He is the author of a best-selling book in 1998 and has since been re-elected three times. The Catriona Stuart is a second-year student at the for the Urban Land Institute, Place Making: Developing Elm Street Program he authored was signed into law University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School Town Centers, Main Streets and Transit Villages, and in February 2004. of Journalism. One day, she hopes someone will pay lectures and consults widely on planning, design and her to write about good design. She is currently an development in the U.S. and abroad. Richard A. Hall, a registered transportation engineer, Editorial Assistant at Places. is President of Hall Planning and Engineering (HPE). David Brain studied architecture at the University Beginning with a simple traffi c study for Seaside in 1984, Gabriele Tagliaventi is a Professor of Technical of Cincinnati before an interest in urban issues the fi rm now produces New Urbanist transportation Architecture at the University of Ferrara. Curator of led him to a BA in sociology at the University of plans for leading national designs fi rms. Work by the “A Vision of Europe’s Triennale” in Bologna, he has California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in sociology at fi rm prioritizes urban design/vision in an effort to won several architectural competitions in Europe. He Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard, Indiana achieve optimal sidewalk, parking, and traffi c designs. is also the author of such books as Urban Renaissance University, and the University of South Florida. He (Grafi s, 1996), The Other Modern 1900-2000 is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Brian O’Looney, AIA, is a Design Architect in the (Dogma, 2000), and The Ecological Alternative to Sub- New College of Florida. Silver Spring, MD, offi ce of Torti Gallas and Partners, Urbanization (Alinea, 2004). Inc. He was formerly with David M. Schwarz/ Jaime Correa is the Knight Professor in Community Architectural Services, Inc. He resides in Kentlands Emily Talen is an Associate Professor in the Building at the University of Miami where he is also in Gaithersburg, MD, where he formerly served as Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the the coordinator of the Graduate Program in Suburb Chairman of the Kentlands Historical Trust. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she and Town Design. Jaime Correa and Associates, his teaches courses in planning history and community architecture and town-planning practice located in Robert Orr received his M. Arch. at the Yale School design. Her recent book, New Urbanism and American Miami, engages in professional work in North America of Art and Architecture, and later apprenticed with Planning: The Confl ict of Cultures (Routledge, 2005), and abroad. both Philip Johnson and Allan Greenberg before traces the historical lineage of New Urbanism. She starting his own practice in New Haven, CT. A has a Ph.D. in urban geography from the University of Peter Elmlund is an economist specializing in urban contemporary of Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater- California, Santa Barbara. issues. He is project leader for Urban City Research, a Zyberk at Yale, he has continued to contribute to the project within the Ax:son Johnson Foundation which ongoing debate, discovery and realization of matters Nicole Valois is currently an Assistant Professor in the funds academic research and organizes international related to community making through design. School of Landscape Architecture at the University conferences and seminars on issues in architecture, urban of Montreal, where she teaches urban design. Her design, planning, and place making. His own research Neal I. Payton, AIA, LEED-AP is a Principal with practice and research interests cover urban landscape focuses on relationships between the built environment Torti Gallas and Partners, Inc. He is currently Co- design and studies, art in the urban landscape, and and economic opportunities for urban immigrants. Director of the fi rm’s Los Angeles offi ce. landscape analysis of roads and highways. Ben Jacks is an architect and Assistant Professor in Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk is a founding principal Gary Van Zante is Curator of Architecture and the Department of Architecture and Interior Design of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, which is Design at the MIT Museum. From 1994 to 2002 he at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is currently internationally known for its design for Seaside, was head of the Southeastern Architectural Archive at working on a book about walking and the built Florida, but which has also completed designs and Tulane University in New Orleans. He is the author of environment. codes for more than two hundred new towns, regional New Orleans 1867: Photographs by Theodore Lilienthal, to plans, and community-revitalization projects. She be published in 2006. is also Dean of the University of Miami’s School of Architecture, where she has taught since 1979, and a founder and emerita board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. She has authored two books: Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, and The New Civic Art. 82 .