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Peter Breitling

Peter Breitling, Dipl.-Ing., Graz, AUSTRIA, University Professor of Architecture and City Planning (a.D.), and has been intimately involved with the revitalization and redesign of the city center of Graz, the second largest city in Austria.

He is the author of In der Altstadt Leben (Living in the Old City), a book about the rebirth of Graz's city center, and has published many articles about appropriate urban architecture and the preservation of historic cities.

Antonio Casellati

Antonio Casellati, Avv. , Mayor of Venice, ITALY until the early 1990's, widely considered one of the most honorable and effective mayors of Venice, is recognized for his intimate knowledge of every facet of life in his city.

His efforts were directed to diversifying Venice's economic base, and to balance resident and tourist needs. Mayor Casellati was a Co-Sponsor of the IMCL Venice Conferences. His presentation in Freiburg on The Nature of Livability can be found in Making Cities Livable.

David Cloutier

David Cloutier is the Executive Director of the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico. SWAIA produces the Santa Fe Indian Market, the oldest and largest Native American art show in the world. He was Executive Director of the Cultural Council for Monterey County (California) for fourteen years. Additionally, he has worked as an arts council director, creative writing teacher, literary publisher and gallery owner in North Carolina and Rhode Island. He was founder and director of the Monterey World Music Festival which in seven annual festivals presented 100 of the finest world music artists and groups.

Cloutier attended Brown University and holds a M.A. and B.A. in Creative Writing and English. He is a poet and writer with more than a dozen published volumes of poetry, versions and translations. He has a particular interest in oral literature and poetry and has gathered and interpreted songs and poems from Native America and around the world.

Derek Drummond

Derek Drummond, FRAIC, Montreal, CANADA, is MacDonald Professor of Architecture and Vice Provost of McGill University. He is a member of the Architectural and Planning Commission for the City of Westmount. He contributes architectural criticism to the Montreal Gazette.

Richard Economakis

Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. Prof. Economakis joined the faculty in 1996 by way of London where since 1990 he was Design Associate with Porphyrios Associates and Senior Editor of traditional titles at Academy Editions. He has also worked in the offices of John Simpson and Partners in London, Alan Greenberg in New Haven, and Robert A.M. Stern in New York. Prof.

Economakis has edited numerous books including monographs on the work of architects Leon Krier and Quinlan Terry and the books Building Classical and Acropolis Restoration. He holds a B. Arch and an M.A. from Cornell University. He has also served as Assistant Design Tutor at the Prince of Wales's Institute, London. He is principal of Masten Economakis Architectural Design Consultants, and was co-founder (1997) of the Deupi Economakis Design Partnership, which has produced new urban schemes for towns in Britain, the U.S., Turkey and Greece. He co-edited the School's publication, Building Cities (Artmedia), and is the author of the books Nisyros: History and Architecture of an Aegean Island (Melissa), and Acropolis: Ancient Cities (Artmedia).

Wolfdietrich Elbert

Wolfdietrich Elbert, founder and former Director of the European Center for Training Craftsmen in the Conservation of the Architectural Heritage, Isola San Servolo, Venice, ITALY. This unique school has brought together an international faculty of distinguished craftsmen in the building and restoration crafts. Professor Elbert is currently Professor of Historic Conservation in Dresden, GERMANY.

Andreas Feldtkeller

Andreas Feldtkeller, Dipl.-Ing. Director of City Planning, Old City of Tübingen, GERMANY. Tübingen, a city of 70,000 inhabitants, is unique not only for its historic character, but for planning policies that have enabled more then 90% of all buildings in the Old City to be resident occupied.

Feldtkeller conceived and directed the conversion of a former French military facility into a new mixed use neighborhood, that has received extensive media coverage and recognition. In January 2002 it received Germany's highest award for urban Planning. His book, Stadtebau: Vielfalt und Integration (Urban Planning: Diversity and Integration) 2110, describes the principles of this approach, and provides plans and photographs of the development. His earlier book, Die zweckentfremdete Stadt. Wider die Zerstörung des öffentlichen Raumes (The Purpose-Alienated City. Against the Destruction of Public Space) is an outcome of Feldtkeller's participation and dialogue in the work of the IMCL Conferences. His book, articles in leading German journals have earned Feldtkeller recognition as an incisive analyst of contemporary cities.

Ferdinand S. Johns, AIA, NCARB

Ferd Johns received a B.A. from Hampden Sydney College, a B. Arch from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University. He has been a practicing architect and urban designer since the early 1970’s, and a teacher of architecture since the mid-1970’s. His professional work has received 17 design awards from the American Institute of Architects, including a National AIA Honor Award for Regional and Urban Design in 2006. Other design recognitions include an honorable mention in the 2008 Seattle AIA COTE “What Makes It Green/Top Ten”, a 2007 award in the Sonoran Institute’s “Best of the Northern Rockies” competition, and a number of community, regional and HUD awards and recognitions over the years. Ferd, who received the Distinguished Professor Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture of North America (ACSA) in 2007, is Professor Emeritus at Montana State University, where he received the President’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the President’s Excellence in Service Learning Award, the James and Mary Ross Provost’s Award for Teaching and Scholarship, and the Anna K. Fridley Phi Kappa Phi Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Ferd’s design work has been published in Architectural Record magazine, Landscape Architecture magazine, Competitions magazine, Editoriale d'Architettura magazine (Italy), Design Action magazine, magazine, Sources and DesignNEW-WEST e-magazine, Montana Living magazine, Baltimore Magazine, South Carolina Review of Architecture, Washington Post magazine, Architect and Builder magazine, Canadian Wood Council Handbook, and in Ernest Burden’s books, Design Presentation and Design Simulation . His essay, Sustainable Urbanity in a Powerful but Fragile Landscape, was included in Future Forms and Design for Sustainable Cities, edited by Mike Jenks (Oxford University, UK) and published in 2005 by Elsevier.

Dietmar Hahlweg

Dr. Dietmar Hahlweg, Mayor of Erlangen, GERMANY for 24 years, has won wide recognition for his comprehensive programs of bringing nature into his city by "greening" the city's public and semi-public spaces. He served on several important Committees of the Deutsche Städtetag (German League of Cities).

Dr. Hahlweg is known throughout Germany for his advocacy of more balanced transportation policies. In Erlangen, thanks to his extensive efforts to improve conditions for bicyclists, more than 30% of all trips are made by bicycle.

Richard J. Jackson MD

Dr. Richard Jackson, an internationally recognized environmental health expert who has focused on the links between urban sprawl and human health, is director of the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
In 2005, he received the highest civilian award for U.S. government service, the Presidential Distinguished Executive Award.

Originally trained as a pediatrician, Jackson has spent more than 25 years in public health. He joined the University of Michigan from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was an adjunct professor of environmental health, and of city and regional design. In 2004 and 2005 Jackson led the California Department of Health Services as State Public Health Officer. Before that, he served nine years as director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

In 2004, he co-authored the book Urban Sprawl and Public Health, which argues that sprawl contributes to a wide range of diseases, from asthma to diabetes, hypertension and depression. For his outstanding leadership in raising awareness among public health officials, planners, city officials and the general public of the effects of the built environment on public health IMCL awarded Jackson the Henry L. Lennard Award in 2007.

Jackson earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California, San Francisco, in 1973 and a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979.

Don Robert Johnson

Don Robert Johnson, Senior Leader of the Ethical Culture Society, New York. The Ethical Culture Society is a non-sectarian society committed to the promotion of ethical values in all realms of life. Mr. Johnson oversaw the operation of the well known Ethical Culture Schools and other educational activities of the Society. He currently teaches at several Theological Seminaries in North Carolina.

Jaques Kaswan

Jaques Kaswan, Ph.D., Berkeley, California, former Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University, President of Urban Alternatives, an organization that has pioneered in the development of affordable, resident controlled housing, specializing in limited equity cooperatives.

Dr. Kaswan is the author of Cooperative Democracy, and has published widely on issues relating to social policy, with particular focus on democratic organization. Among his significant articles is an article in American Psychologist on "Manifest and Latent Functions of Psychological Services".

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.), is Founder (1985) and Director of the International Making Cities Livable Conferences, and Consultant to cities in the U.S. and Europe.

Dr. Crowhurst Lennard has held academic posts at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Brookes University, Oxford, England. She has been Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Washington University St. Louis, and City University New York, and is Gast Professorin at the University of Ulm, Germany. She has also been a Guest Lecturer in Architecture and Planning Departments in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Austria and Italy.

She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council for the Arts; The Royal Institute of British Architects; and the Graham Foundation for Fine Arts.

Dr. Crowhurst Lennard is author of Explorations in the Meaning of Architecture, and co-author of Public Life in Urban Places; Livable Cities, People and Places; Livable Cities Observed; The Forgotten Child and Genius of the European Square. She is co-editor of The Wisdom of Cities; Making Cities Livable, and Ethics of Health Care. She contributed the chapter on "Urban Space Design" for the encyclopaedia, The Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought. She also contributed the chapter on "Physical Setting as Therapeutic Modality" in The Psychiatric Hospital. Her professional articles have appeared in Urban Land, Planning, US Mayor, Environment & Behaviour, Journal of Architectural Education, Western City, Education, The Humanist, etc.. Dr. Crowhurst Lennard is Editor of the Making Cities Livable Newsletter and has served on the Editorial Boards of National Civic Review, and Verkehr und Umwelt (Zurich).

She received her B.Arch.(Hons.) from the Department of Architecture, Bristol University; RWA Dipl. From the Royal West of England Academy of Architecture, Bristol; and Ph.D.(Arch.) from the University of California, Berkeley.

Henry L. Lennard Ph.D.

Henry L. Lennard Ph.D. held academic appointments as Professor of Psychiatry and Sociology. He served as Professor of Psychiatry, and founded the Family Study Station at the University of California, Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, San Francisco. He also directed the Mental Health Research and Training Program for the Department of Sociology and the Bureau of Applied Social Research at Columbia University, New York.

He also held appointments as Visiting Professor at the University of the Pacific, (San Francisco), University of Colorado (Boulder), New York University (New York), and was Professorial Fellow at the University of Warwick (England), and serves as Gast Professor at the University of Ulm, Germany, etc..

Dr. Lennard consults for many organizations, including the Center for Policy Research (New York), The Addiction Research Institute (Toronto), The Phoenix House Treatment Center (New York), etc.. He was elected as a Scientific Associate of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and was a Member of the Neuropsychopharmacology Advisory Committee of the FDA. He served on the Editorial Board of Family Process and was a Founding Editor of Family Systems Medicine.

He is the author of many books, among them: Anatomy of Psychotherapy, Patterns in Human Interaction, Mystification and Drug Misuse, Ethics in Health Care, The Psychiatric Hospital, Livable Cities Observed, Making Cities Livable and the forthcoming The Forgotten Child (the last four with Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard). His professional papers have appeared in professional journals in the US and abroad (in Science, The Smithsonian, American Psychologist, Archives of General Psychiatry, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Family Process, Sociometry, etc.). Many of his books and articles deal with issues affecting children and families.

Dr. Lennard's work on social behaviour, families, children, and drugs was supported by awards from The National Institute of Mental Health, The National Science Foundation, and the Commonwealth -- The William T. Grant - Robert Wood Johnson and Russell Sage Foundations. He was educated at the Wasa Gymnasium, Vienna, at New York University, and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York.

Donald MacDonald

Donald MacDonald, FAIA, Principal, MacDonald Architects, San Francisco, is widely recognized for his innovative mixed use projects and as an advocate of infill development. He has pioneered in the area of affordable housing and housing for the homeless.

His philosophy of the city is expressed in his new book entitled Democratic Architecture. He has been called by Alan Temko, Pulitzer Prize winning architectural critic "perhaps the best architect in America today".

Tom Martineau

Tom Martineau, AIA, LEED AP, has been interested in the quality of life of urban places since the early Sixties, when he developed "The Urban Activity Model" as part of his graduate work in architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was a Research Associate at the State University Construction Fund in Albany, New York (1965-1973) participating in the development of the Guide for Campus Planning. Since 1985 he has served as Director of the Institute for Building Sciences at Florida A&M University, and beginning in 1992, as Professor of Architecture.

Mr. Martineau has directed numerous community master planning efforts. He first participated in an IMCL Conference in 1989 in Venice, and has since made IMCL conference presentations on campus planning, affordable housing principles, public urban squares, and the potential for making the suburbs livable, in Vienna, Alpbach/Salzburg, Carmel, Santa Fe, Siena, Sarasota & London.

He is a licensed, registered architect, and an accredited professional by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program, aimed at encouraging the design and construction of buildings that use energy in a sustainable manner. He became an IMCL Board Member in 2002.

Rolf Monheim

Rolf Monheim, Professor of Urban Geography at the University of Bayreuth, GERMANY, and Germany's foremost expert on the design and management of pedestrian and traffic reduced city centers. In his books and papers Professor Monheim has illustrated why some mechanisms used in reviving city centers succeed, while others are doomed to fail.

Professor Monheim's book Fussgänger Bereiche (Pedestrian Zones) is the first comprehensive study of the development of German pedestrian zones and widely considered a classic.

Robert M. Morrow

Appointed citizenship judge in Hamilton in May 2004, Robert Morrow served as that city's Mayor from 1982 to 2000. From 1970 to 1980 he served as an alderman, controller and deputy mayor. A professional musician and organist, he has played and conducted choirs at several Hamilton churches, and has given recitals in Canada, the United States, Austria, Italy and Great Britain.

As mayor of Hamilton Mr. Morrow was active within all the national and ethnic communities, and in downtown and neighborhood renewal. He launched a major reclamation of Hamilton Harbour and his efforts led to a revision of federal jurisdiction over harbour land uses enabling the community to play a much more environmentally active role in addition to the designation of the city as a model sustainable community. His initiatives in diversification of the local economy helped create thousands of jobs.

He received many awards and honours including two senior knighthoods - one from the President of Poland (1999) and the other from the President of Italy (2003).

Peter Novak

Peter Novak, Prof. Dr. Dr., Ulm, GERMANY, Director of the Department of Medical Sociology; former Dean, Theoretical Medicine, University of Ulm Medical School. Professor Novak holds Doctorates in Medicine and Philosophy and was also trained in Sociology. He co-founded the Humboldt Center for Philosophy and the Humanities at the Medical School. He also coordinates a Center on Self Help Groups that he initiated.

Professor Novak is the author and editor of many books, including Primary Health Care, and Community Mental Health. He is the author of many articles on psychosomatic medicine, community mental health, and the relevance of Greek philosopht to issues of current social policy on health and the city.

Professor Novak is one of the original members of the IMCL Board, and his Department has been a Co-Sponsor of the International Making Cities Livable Conferences since the early 1990s.

Patrick J. Quinn

Patrick Quinn, FAIA, Troy, New York, Professor Emeritus of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic; former President of the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture; former Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley; and former Dean of Rensselaer Polytechnic School of Architecture. Professor Quinn has been active in the IMCL Conferences since their inception in 1985. As an educator he has emphasized that architects must take into account the users' experience of the built environment.

Professor Quinn is the author of many articles on sacred architecture and other topics, including "La Transcendence par l'Architecture" (Transcendence by Design) in Églises d'Aujourd'hui. Patrimoine de Demain.

Borzou Rahimi

Borzou Rahimi, AIA holds a Doctorate in Architecture from the University of Rome, Italy, with postdoctorate studies on preservation of the historic fabric of cities. He has been working as an architect and urban designer in Southern California for the past twenty-five years. He currently works with the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles. Mr. Rahimi is a registered architect in the State of California.

Joseph P. Riley, Jr.

Joseph P. Riley, Jr., Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, former President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, has raised the awareness of mayors and city officials to the quality of urban design and architecture through the Mayors Institute for Design that he co-founded.

Mayor Riley is responsible for transforming Charleston into one of America's most livable cities. He has been an innovator of scattered site infill public housing, and developed Charleston's waterfront for the use of all inhabitants through an award winning Waterfront Park. Among his many accomplishments are the Charleston Visitors Center, the Maritime Museum, and an Aquarium now nearing completion.

Edoardo Salzano

Edoardo Salzano, Dean of Urban Planning, University of Venice; former Deputy Mayor for Urban Affairs, Venice, ITALY; Member of the City Council for Venice and the Veneto Region; President, Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, Rome.

Professor Salzano is the author of many books, among them the renowned Atlas of Venice (Atlante di Venezia); La Città Sostenibile (The Sustainable City); L'Italia a Sacco (Italy Ransacked); and Fondamente di Urbanistica (Principles of Urban Planning) 285 pages.

Sylvia Sutherland

Sylvia Sutherland is in her 4th term as Mayor of Peterborough, Ontario. She has a deep ethical sense of responsibility for those in the community who are homeless, hungry, ill and abandoned, and established the Social Policy Iniatives Committee to bring concerned citizens together to tackle such issues as homelessness and affordable housing.

Mayor Sutherland is also committed to promoting mixed-use: "We must guard against sprawl, which can bring with it soullessness, we must make the best use of our existing serviced land base by intensifying where possible, by building neighborhoods that encourage community, by reexamining mixed-use zoning, zoning that makes it possible to work and shop within blocks of where you live." (Inaugural address, Dec. 1, 2003)

In addition to working to improve the social and economic well-being of her city, Mayor Sutherland has been a Canadian delegate to the United Nations.

Jane Thompson

Jane Thompson, Principal of Thompson and Associates, Boston, Massachusetts, is a conceptual designer and former Partner in Benjamin Thompson and Associates. Together with her husband Ben Thompson she was responsible for the design of some of America's most successful public spaces - Boston's Faneuil Market, Baltimore Harbor Place, New York's South Street Seaport, and other festive people places.

Jane Thompson has a very special commitment to improving cities for children. She recently founded the Child Design Group to create environments conducive to the well-being of children.

Hartmut Topp

Hartmut Topp, Dipl.-Ing. is Professor of Transportation Planning at the University of Kaiserslautern, GERMANY. Hartmut Topp is considered one of the foremost transportation planners in Europe and is well-known for his "Ten Simple Rules of Traffic Planning". He is Principal of his own consultation firm and is widely sought as a consultant on transportation planning, and traffic calming mechanisms for arterial roads, Wohnstrasse, etc..

Sven von Ungern-Sternberg

Dr. Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, Regierungspräsident für Süd Baden, (Governor for the State of South Baden) Freiburg, GERMANY, studied Law and Business in Freiburg and Edinburgh, and received a Doctorate in International Law. In 1971 he was elected to the Freiburg City Council, and in 1973 became Leader of the Council's CDU Party. In 1978 he became First Mayor for City Planning (Erster Bürgermeister) and for 20 years in that position was responsible for Freiburg's Planning, Building and Transportation Policy. During this time he was also active in regional policy.

Dr. Ungern-Sternberg is co-editor of Making Cities Livable. Wege zur menschlichen Stadt. He has served on the IMCL Board since 1994 and is Co-Chairman of the Program Committee.