Instructor Bios
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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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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, FBCI President |
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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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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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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 |
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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, new design, 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.
A recipient of the National Trust for Historic Preservation President’s Award, Wyant is a member of Lambda Alpha International, an honorary Land Economics Society, and an Honorary member of AIA-Chicago. She is also a member of the International Women’s Forum.
www.formbasedcodes.org |
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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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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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