Traditional and Classical architect/urban designer, Winchester & London. Major projects: New villages at Shepton Mallet & Midsomer Norton for Duchy of Cornwall; New town center, Rocester, Staffs; Humanities Library Oxford University; New Library Ashmoleum Museum Oxford. Founder: Popular Housing Forum. The Architect as Activist.
Director, & Co-Founder (1985) of the International Making Cities Livable Conferences. Organized 39 IMCL Conferences in the US and Europe. Author: Explorations in the Meaning of Architecture. The European Square (forthcoming). Co-author: Livable Cities Observed. The Forgotten Child. Co-editor: The Wisdom of Cities (forthcoming). Her publications have been acclaimed as singularly important contributions to the understanding of cities. Building Cities for Community & Identity: A Call for True Urbanism. Protecting the European Square.
Chairman, Acanthus Ferguson Mann Architects, Bristol. President, Royal Institute of British Architects. Received many awards from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (Restoration), RIBA and the Civic Trust. Projects include master plans for urban renaissance (Canons Marsh Bristol, Bristol Harbourside), public squares (@t Bristol), mixed use, conservation, etc. Regional Architecture in the UK.
Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Erlangen, Germany for 20 years. Received national recognition for his advocacy of the bicycle as a mode of transportation. He increased the number of trips by bicycle to over 30% during his term in office. Also initiated an ecological policy of “greening" Erlangen through an innovative program of assistance to citizens. “City of Vision" Awardee. Sustainable Cities – for instance Erlangen.
Formerly Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, University of California medical School, San Francisco. Founded the Family Study Station and the Center for the Study of Drugs and Social Behavior at UC Medical Center. His work has made explicit the connection between urban design, patterns of social life, and social pathology. Author: Anatomy of Psychotherapy. Mystification and Drug Misuse. Ethics in Health Care. The Psychiatric Hospital. Co-author: Livable Cities Observed. The Forgotten Child. Co-editor: The Wisdom of Cities (forthcoming). The Public Realm as Teacher. The Built Environment & the Healthy City.
Architect, San Francisco, acclaimed by Pulitzer Prize winning architectural critic Alan Temko “The best architect in America." Foremost Californian architect specializing in mixed use, as well as special commitment to affordable and low income housing. Author: Democratic Architecture, a book that explains his personal philosophy and values as an architect and citizen. New Mixed Use Projects.
Dean, first School of Urban Planning in Italy, University of Venice; former Deputy Mayor for Urban Affairs, Venice; formerly member of Italian arliament; Councilmember of Venice & the Veneto Region. President, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, Rome. Author: Urbanistica e società opulenta, L’Italia a sacco, La Città sostenibile; and a successful text book of urban planning, Fondamenti di urbanistica. Editor: Atlas of Venice. Together with Mayor Antonio Casellati Professor Salzano hosted the 1st International Making Cities Livable Conference in Venice in 1985.The Piazza & the City.
Prof. em. Psychology and Criminology, University of California, Berkeley & Santa Cruz. One of America’s most eminent psychologists. Developed field of Narrative Psychology. Consultant to Government departments. Author: Constructing the Social, Narrative Psychology, The Poetics of Identity. The Poetic Construction of Reality. If These Walls Could Speak…
Architect, London. Major projects: The Queen’s Gallery Buckingham Palace; Gonville & Caius College Cambridge renovations; Masterplan for Paternoster Square (not realized); Chelsea Old Church Vicarage & Church Hall; Ashfold House, Sussex. Recent Works.
Professor, Laboratorio di Architettura Tecnica, Dept. of Engineering, University of Ferrara, ITALY. Director, A Vision of Europe. Urban renaissance on a traditional model: Città Nuova, Alessandria (with Leon Krier). Author: Idee per la città, Città Giardino – Garden Cities, Rifondazione della Città. Strategies of Urban Renaissance: the Mixed-Use Neighborhood.
Regierungspräsident (Governor) of the State of Süd-Baden, Germany. Formerly Erster Bürgermeister und Baudezernent, (Deputy Mayor for Planning), Freiburg responsible for development of two ecological new neighborhoods with urban identity. Pioneer in regional planning. Helped develop a transportation policy for Freiburg that integrates different transportation modes – train, bus, streetcar, bicycle. Honored nationally and internationally for transportation planning. Co-Author: Making Cities Livable. Hosted the 17th IMCL Conference in Freiburg in 1995. Member of the IMCL Advisory Board, and Co-Chairman, Program Committee since 1994. Regional Identity & Regional Planning