Instructor Bios
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Rick Bernhardt |
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A town planner for over 30 years, Rick is Executive Director of the Metropolitan Nashville-Davidson County Planning Department. Rick’s practice has focused on creating sustainable communities, neighborhoods and places through the use of traditional design principles. These techniques have been used to develop community-wide and project specific master plans.
Prior to joining Metro, Rick was director EDAW’s Town Planning Studio having also served as Orlando’s Director of Planning and Development for seventeen years. His work with the Southeast Orlando Sector Plan and Baldwin Park resulted in the receipt of the initial Catherine Brown award from the Congress for the New Urbanism.
Rick was educated at Auburn University (B.S. in Economics) and Ohio State University (Master of City Planning with a concentration in housing and urban structure) and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Ohio State University in 1997. |
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Victor Dover |
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Victor Dover is principal in the town planning firm of Dover, Kohl & Partners. His practice focuses on the creation and regeneration of sound neighborhoods as the fundamental component of livable communities. Victor holds degrees from Virginia Tech and the University of Miami, and is credentialed by the American Institute of Certified Planners. He was a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and currently serves as CNU’s national vice chair. He is the author of the “Streets” chapter in the Charter for the New Urbanism book. He is on the core committee that is establishing the new LEED for Neighborhood Developments (LEED-ND) standards. Victor is also a veteran marathoner and Ironman triathlete.
www.doverkohl.com |
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Andrés Duany |
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Andrés Duany is a founding principal at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company (DPZ). DPZ is widely recognized as a leader of the New Urbanism, an international movement that seeks to end suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. In the years since the firm first received recognition for the design of Seaside, Florida, in 1980, DPZ has completed designs for close to 300 new towns, regional plans, and community revitalization projects. The firm’s method of integrating planning codes is currently being applied to areas ranging from 10 to over 500,000 acres throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. DPZ has received numerous awards, including several Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, and AIA Awards. Seaside has been documented in over 800 articles and books and was names the best new town design of the decade by TIME Magazine in 1992. The projects of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company have focused international attention on urbanism and its postwar decline.
Andrés Duany is well-known for his lectures, his books The New Civic Art and Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, and as a founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, where he continues to serve on the Board of Directors. Established in 1993 with the mission of reforming urban growth patterns, the Congress has been characterized by The New York Times as “the most important collective architectural movement in the United States in the past fifty years.”
www.dpz.com |
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Geoffrey Ferrell |
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Geoff Ferrell has worked as an urban designer across the United States for two decades. Before establishing his own firm in 1992, Mr. Ferrell was a designer/code writer for Duany Plater-Zyberk Architects in Miami and later served 2 years as the Director of Urban Design for the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council in Florida. Current projects include urban design and writing a Form-Based/Mixed-Use Zoning Toolkit for Prince George’s County, Maryland, the form-based coding element of the new Denver, Colorado Unified Development Code and a model mixed-use code for Louisiana (both with Code Studio). Other form-based codes he has written: Peoria, IL; Farmers Branch, TX; Pleasant Hill BART, CA; Woodford County, KY; Iowa City, IA; Columbia Pike Corridor, VA; Marquette, MI; and Fremont, MI. His work is featured in the book The New Urbanism by Peter Katz and in the recently published Form-Based Codes by Daniel and Karen Parolek and Paul Crawford. He is a Charter Member of the Congress for the New Urbanism and a Charter Board Member for the Form-Based Codes Institute.
www.ferrellmaddenlewis.com |
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Peter Katz |
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Author and consultant Peter Katz is a leading proponent of the New Urbanism, an urban design and planning movement that the New York Times called “the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era.” Katz played a key role in shaping the movement as founding executive director of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He’s also author of a seminal book on the subject–The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community– published by McGraw-Hill in 1994. As principal of TRANS/FORM, based in Southern California, Peter Katz provides consulting services in the areas of New Urbanism implementation, strategic marketing and community development. Katz received his degree from The Cooper Union in New York where he studied architecture and graphic design. |
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Joseph Kohl |
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Joseph Kohl has degrees in architecture and urbanism from Virginia Tech and the University of Miami. He has been practicing professionally with Dover, Kohl & Partners based in Coral Gables, Florida since 1987. He serves the Form-Based Codes Institute as board member and treasurer. His clients have taken him across the United States and around the world to create master plans and development regulations for existing neighborhoods and new communities. He has co-authored form-based codes for several Florida municipalities and for Hercules CA, Beaufort SC, Lemont IL, and Jeddah Saudi Arabia.
www.doverkohl.com |
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Mary Madden |
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Mary Madden has nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of urban planning and design, community development, and historic preservation at the federal, state, and local levels. Her recent projects have been completed in a variety of diverse locales, including: Peoria, Illinois; Memphis, Tennessee; Farmers Branch, Texas; Prince George’s County, Maryland; Marquette, Michigan; Arlington, Virginia; and Fayetteville, Arkansas. Ms. Madden frequently speaks and writes on the topics of urban design and form-based codes. She co-authored Place Making with Form-Based Codes for the September 2006 issue of Urban Land magazine, was a contributor to the National Charrette Institutes 2008 Best Practices Report, and was a contributor to the APA/CNU publication Codifying New Urbanism: How to Reform Municipal Land Development Regulations. Before joining FML in 2001, Ms. Madden served in several positions at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Earlier in her career, she was the co-director of the Mayors’ Institute on City Design.
www.ferrellmaddenlewis.com |
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Daniel Parolek |
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Daniel Parolek is the founding principal of Opticos Design. He has a passion for working with clients to create healthy sustainable communities through the application of New Urbanist planning principles. He is the co-author of a book “Form-Based Codes” that was published by John Wiley & Sons in the Spring of 2008. He is a founding board member of the Form-Based Code Institute and the Northern California Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He has won three international design competitions for designs ranging from a new gateway for Washington, D.C., to a regional growth strategy for California’s Central Valley. Prior to founding Opticos Design, Daniel worked with Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York City, a internationally known architect who among other accomplishements, planned Celebration, Florida.
www.opticosdesign.com |
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Karen Parolek |
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Clarity, simplicity, and ease-of-use are core values of modern form-based codes. Karen Parolek is leading the way towards establishing standards of code usability and communicating those standards to a growing FBC community of practice. As a graphic designer with an extensive background in designing web sites, software, signage, and planning documents, Karen designs codes that are standard setting. With her husband, Dan Parolek, and the late Paul Crawford, Karen helped design and write the definitive book on FBCs, Form Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers. She lectures frequently on form-based codes and their design.
www.opticosdesign.com |
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Stefanos Polyzoides |
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Stefanos Polyzoides, a co-founder of the Congress for the New Urbanism, is co-principal of the architecture and urbanist firm, Moule & Polyzoides, which he formed in 1982 with Elizabeth Moule. His prominent career spans architecture, urban design, education and theory, with professional experience that includes educational, institutional and civic buildings, historic rehabilitation, commercial projects, campus planning and urban design. During the course of several decades, Mr. Polyzoides has led numerous design charrettes and played a pioneering role in the development, refinement and implementation of form-based codes on the firm’s projects throughout the U.S. and in a variety of foreign countries. This has included recent urbanist designs and form-based codes for San Antonio, Texas; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Visalia, California; and Paso Robles, California. Mr. Polyzoides is the author of two books, Los Angeles Courtyard Housing: A Typological Analysis and R.M. Schindler, Architect and is the recipient of the prestigious Seaside Prize.
www.mparchitects.com |
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Samuel E. Poole |
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Over twenty-five years of public and private sector experience in federal, state and local planning allows Mr. Poole to provide clients with unique skills in anticipating and resolving constraints on the use of land and water. With over fifteen years of experience addressing both conventional and new urbanism development issues, Mr. Poole is a leading planning and zoning expert in the development and redevelopment of Florida’s cities has prepared comprehensive plans, plan amendments, and land use codes enabling development of mixed use new urbanism neighborhoods and buildings. Mr. Poole lectures frequently and has published numerous articles on form-based codes, urban redevelopment issues planning, zoning, water management, and environmental issues in journals and newspapers, including Urban Land, The Urban Lawyer, Zoning and Planning Law Report, South Florida Business Journal, Palm Beach Post, and Miami Herald. He was selected by the Daily Business Review as one of South Florida’s most effective lawyers.
www.bergersingerman.com |
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Steve Price |
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Nothing is truer when it comes to explaining how cities physically work. Steve Price communicates the design principles of walkable urbanism through photo-realistic illustration. Using photo-editing software, he modifies photographs of existing landscapes, superimposing photographs of architecture, trees, people, transit vehicles and other components of an urban landscape to create before-and-after visualizations of positive change. He has worked with most of America’s leading new urban designers. His images have been published in numerous newspapers, national magazines, in the book The Charter of the New Urbanism published by the Congress for the New Urbanism, in the book The Regional City by Peter Calthorpe and William Fulton, and in Form-Based Codes by Paul Crawford, Dan Parolek and Karen Parolek. Steve wrote the Wikipedia article on form-based codes.
www.urban-advantage.com |
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Kaizer Rangwala |
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Place is the single largest competitive advantage for a city. Kaizer’s training and experience as an architect, city planner, and economic developer coupled with his international interests brings forth a broad and distinctive perspective to creating memorable places. After working for Jersey City, Indianapolis, and Farmers Branch, Texas, he now serves as the Assistant Community Development Director for the City of Ventura. Kaizer’s association with the Farmers Branch Station Area and the Ventura Midtown Corridors has been recognized with numerous awards including the Driehaus Form-Based Codes Awards. He has lectured extensively on Form-Based Codes at state and national planning conferences, planning schools, and the Form-Based Codes Institute. His writings have been featured in numerous planning and economic development publications. |
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Bob Sitkowski |
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Bob Sitkowski is a lawyer who focuses his practice on the legal aspects of smart growth, sustainable development, and new urbanism. He has significant experience in evaluating, drafting, and implementing land development regulations, and in representing developers, landowners, municipalities, and advocacy groups in land use matters. He is a registered architect and a certified planner, earning a Bachelor of Architecture in Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, and a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has written extensively about legal aspects of form-based codes, and has spoken on this and other land use law topics at national meetings and symposia. He is a past winner of the American Planning Association’s R. Marlin Smith Writing Competition and a past recipient of the "New Leaders of the Law" award presented by the Connecticut Law Tribune.
Sitkowski Bio.pdf |
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Dan Slone |
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“Is it legal?” Dan Slone has been answering that question regarding codes for 25 years. He has written or helped write traditional neighborhood development codes, Smart Codes and other form-based codes all around the country. In addition to writing codes for developers working with localities for project approval and codes for localities that desire traditional neighborhood developments and sustainable development, he is national counsel for the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Seaside Institute and the U.S. Green Building Council. Dan lectures nationally on overcoming impediments for innovative development and on the legal aspects of FBC’s. He is the co-author of a new book with Doris Goldstein entitled A Legal Guide for Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Architects and Developers.
www.mcguirewoods.com/news-resources/publications/real_estate/Slone_ESG.pdf |
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Bill Spikowski |
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Bill Spikowski is a veteran advisor to local governments, preparing community plans, redevelopment plans, and codes for cities and counties that aren’t willing to settle for today’s sprawling development patterns. He has become a pioneer in using form-based codes to translate bold visions of the future into an integral part of local regulations. Bill is a frequent lecturer on innovative planning and coding techniques and is an officer and founding board member of the Form-Based Codes Institute. He is a regular instructor at FBCI workshops across the country. Prior to forming his consulting firm in 1992, he served as growth management director for Lee County, Florida. He also serves on the Fort Myers Planning Board and is a co-founder and officer of the Calusa Land Trust & Nature Preserve.
www.spikowski.com/Form-BasedCodes.htm |
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Carol Wyant, FBCI Executive Director |
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Drawing on her experiences in commercial real estate development and leadership of not-for-profit historic preservation state and national organizations, Carol Wyant has been involved with design and preservation of the built environment for over 30 years. In addition to serving as Founding Board Member and Executive Director of FBCI, Wyant also lends her consulting expertise to advocate for preservation of historically and architecturally significant sites and structures, context appropriate new design and land use strategies, and community beautification.
For Wyant, historic preservation is much more than preserving individual buildings. It is about protecting and nurturing neighborhoods, and the histories and stories they embody. Wyant lives in Oak Park, a beautiful and walkable19th century train suburb of Chicago, and takes the Elevated Train to her office in Chicago’s Loop. Wyant was attracted to Form-Based Coding because of its ability to protect and/or revitalize the historic places she loves.
www.formbasedcodes.org |
Additional Faculty:
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James Dougherty |
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James Dougherty, AICP, CNU, ASAI is the Director of Design at Dover, Kohl & Partners, an internationally-recognized town planning and urban design practice based in Coral Gables, Florida. James began working with Dover, Kohl in 1996 and has since participated in over 100 charrettes within the United States and abroad. James works closely with Victor Dover and Joe Kohl to establish the design direction of projects in the office. He participates in all aspects of the office’s projects including public involvement, development of master plans, regulating plans and form-based codes. He creates many of the office’s three-dimensional illustrations using a blend of hand-drawn and computer techniques.
www.doverkohl.com |
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Roger Eastman |
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Roger Eastman is a recovering classically trained town planner! Throughout his career he has been inspired by great historic walkable towns and neighborhoods, and has pursued an active interest in the need for quality human-scale urbanism. After a 15 year planning career with the City of Sedona (Arizona), he recently accepted a position with the City of Flagstaff. A strong advocate of Smart Growth ideas, he successfully promoted those concepts in Flagstaff where he wrote a Traditional Neighborhood District (TND) ordinance based on the SmartCode. Roger is a frequent public speaker and has lectured on the City of Flagstaff’s TND and the approach taken to ensure its successful adoption. He is currently coordinating a comprehensive rewrite of the City of Flagstaff’s zoning ordinance as an innovative integrated zoning code promoting Smart Growth principles and with form-based code elements within it. |
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Kevin Klinkenberg |
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Principal with 180 Degrees Design Studio, Klinkenberg has dedicated his career to the building of great places. A Fellow with the Knight Program in Community Building through the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, he seeks practical applications for TND techniques in projects of all scales. He is a frequent speaker on urban design and is involved with setting new standards for context-sensitive transportation policy through the CNU and is working with several national colleagues on the formation of XNU – the next stage in the development of New Urbansim.
www.180deg.com |
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Scott Polikov |
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President of the Gateway Planning Group, Scott is a town planner who started his professional life practicing law in Washington, D.C. Returning to Texas, he served on the Board of Directors respectively of his transit authority and the regional metropolitan planning organization (MPO). Alarmed that the MPO’s transportation plan ignored the urban form, Scott embarked on establishing a national planning practice focusing on the marriage of place-making and the economics of transportation. Gateway Planning’s awards include the Form-Based Codes Institute’s inaugural Driehaus Award for best code. Scott’s service includes membership on the National Board of Directors of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He also serves as an associate of the CitiStates Group and as a faculty member for the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) Ford Foundation Sustainability Program for Chamber CEO’s. Recently, Scott was appointed by the Texas Transportation Commission (TxDOT) to co-chair a committee charged with incorporating urban design criteria into the State’s Roadway Design Manual resulting in the state adoption of the ITE/CNU Manual, Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares.
www.gatewayplanning.com |
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David Sargent |
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Mr. Sargent has practiced architecture and town planning in California for over 25 years, focusing on the design of pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods, districts and corridors since 1991. He was the founding principal of Sargent Town Planning, and is now a senior associate of Moule & Polyzoides. Mr. Sargent led or supported the preparation of the first form-based codes adopted by California municipalities including Oxnard (1992), Ventura (1994), Hercules (2000) and Petaluma (2003), and is currently directing the preparation of master plans and codes for greenfield and urban regeneration projects in California, Texas, Tennessee and Florida. Mr. Sargent lectures frequently on urbanism and form-based codes, and in 2004 coauthored a White Paper on Smart Growth in California for the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, which proved instrumental in the passage of legislation explicitly enabling cities to adopt form-based codes in lieu of conventional use-based zoning codes. Mr. Sargent received a Bachelor’s degree in Geology from Brown University and a Master of Architecture degree from Rice University. He is a registered architect in California and a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism.
www.mparchitects.com |
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Sandy Sorlien |
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Sandy Sorlien is a principal author of the SmartCode & Manual, the coordinator of SmartCodeCentral.com, and the founding teacher of the SmartCode Local master classes. She has edited several versions of the SmartCode from v5.2 onward, working with principal author Andres Duany and DPZ. After Hurricane Katrina, Sandy helped customize or review SmartCodes for fifteen Mississippi and Louisiana cities. In early 2008 she calibrated Version 9.0 for Jamestown, Rhode Island and Bran, Romania. February 2008 she lectured on the SmartCode and transect-based zoning to the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (PA-NJ-DE) and later to the Philadelphia Zoning Code Commission. In a pre-Katrina life, Sandy taught photography at the University of the Arts and the University of Pennsylvania in her home town of Philadelphia. She received several fellowships for her work, and after 14 years of traveling the American Transect, published Fifty Houses: Images from the American Road. She is working on a book about Main Streets in America.
www.bungalowstudio.org |
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