Humane Metropolis

The following text includes the bios for each of the speakers at The Humane Metropolis symosium held at New York University from June 6-7, 2002.

Adelmann, W. Gerald

Gerald W. Adelmann is Executive Director of Openlands Project and President of Canal Corridor Association, two not-for-profit organizations working within Illinois. Adelmann assumed the directorship of Openlands Project, a 39-year-old conservation organization working to protect and enhance public open space in northeastern Illinois, in January 1988. He has been director of Canal Corridor Association since 1982. It is the leading private-sector group working toward the renewal of the Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor, the first federal land designation of its kind. Adelmann serves on the boards of numerous civic organizations, including the Illinois State Museum and Chicago Metropolis 2020. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad and has been active in sustainable development work in Yunnan, China for nearly ten years.

Matt Arnn is a New York City based landscape architect directing the USDA Forest Service's Metropolitan Initiative. Matt's work includes the NYC Living Memorials Project, which is using trees as placemaking tools to help communities recover and heal from the events of September 11, and the Open Accessible Space Information System (OASIS), NYC's first web-based community GIS dedicated to green infrastructure. Matt has worked on numerous park, playground, waterfront and public space projects in communities around the country with istudio design, Lee Weintraub Landscape Architecture, DCA Landscape Architecture, and the Waterfront Center. He holds a Bachelor's in Landscape Architecture from the City College of NY, a Master's in Urban Planning from the University of Virginia, and a Bachelor's in Urban Geography from the University of Texas at Austin.

Thomas Balsley, FASLA, is the founder and principal designer of Thomas Balsley Associates, a New York City-based, award-winning design firm specializing in landscape architecture, urban design and site planning. Mr. Balsley has built an international reputation for successful projects that range from parks, plazas and waterfronts to corporate and college campuses. His portfolio is respected by both the public and private sectors for its design sensitivity and its responsiveness to the public review process. Recently, a park he designed in midtown Manhattan was renamed Balsley Park to honor his contributions to the design profession and the public.

Commissioner Benepe oversees the management and operation of the City's 1,700 parks (28,617 acres) which comprise the parks system (13% of the City's landmass). Adrian joined Parks full-time in 1979 as an Urban Park Ranger. During his Parks career, he has been involved in almost all aspects of park operations, including enforcement, the arts, natural resources, and public information. For the past six years, he served as Borough Commissioner for Manhattan, overseeing the over 300 parks and playgrounds within the borough. He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and two sons.

Dr. Alan R. Berkowitz has been Head of Education at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York since 1985. He received his BA in Environmental Studies from Antioch College in 1976 and Ph.D. in Plant Ecology from Cornell University in 1986. Dr. Berkowitz=s work in education aims to make the processes of ecological science, as well as its current understandings and perspectives, accessible to people outside of the discipline. Efforts include the development and dissemination of curricula, teacher enhancement and training, ecology programs for school-aged children, visitors, and adults, and research opportunities in ecology for undergraduates. Dr. Berkowitz is the Education Team Leader for the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a long term ecological research project studying human settlements as ecosystems in metropolitan Baltimore, Maryland. He was convener of the eighth Cary Conference at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies entitled Understanding Urban Ecosystems: A New Frontier for Research and Education, and co-editor of an upcoming book with the same title. He is keenly interested in increasing the diversity of the ecological profession, building a disciplinary culture that fosters and celebrates diversity in all its forms. Dr. Berkowitz has published journal articles, book chapters and curriculum guides in both ecological science and education, and serves on advisory boards of a number of national science education projects. He was the first Vice President for Education and Human Resources of the Ecological Society of America (1995-2000), and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dan Biederman, co-founder of the Grand Central Partnership, 34th Street Partnership and Bryant Park Restoration Corporation, currently serves as the President of the latter two. Mr. Biederman applied private management and financing principles and borrowed several ideas of urbanist William H. Whyte, Jr. in the restoration of Bryant Park - from movable chairs to vending kiosks. Then he extended the success of Bryant Park to the reconstruction of Herald and Greeley Squares, two former poorly maintained traffic islands that form a bowtie at 34th Street and Broadway. Mr. Biederman is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1975. He also earned an M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration in 1977. Mr. Biederman has written, lectured, and taught extensively in the field of urban management, and has advised a number of other cities on the establishment of Business Improvement Districts. His publications include articles in Urban Land and Harvard Business Review.

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture. B.A. in Art and German, Brown University, 1975, and M.L.A., State University of New York in Syracuse, 1979. Teaches writing, theory, basic design studio and landscape preservation studio. Has authored several journal articles and book chapters about cultural influences that shape the landscape. Has received merit awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Profession Awards Program and the Boston Society of Landscape Architects (BSLA) Professional Awards program for design and preservation work. Elected and served as Executive Secretary and President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA). Elected and served as President of the Design Communication Association (DCA). Served as Associate Director of the Honors Program and Associate Director of the Writing Program at the University of Massachusetts. Received Fulbright research award for study in Berlin. Currently serving as editor of the DCA journal Representation. Current research emphasizes landscape interpretation and historic identity.

Colin Cathcart is an architect and educator with developed specialties in sustainable design, the design of the workplace, new technologies, and mixed-use urban design. Upon receiving his Master of Architecture from Columbia University in 1983 (thesis: an urban factory), Colin Cathcart was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Mr. Cathcart's 'Crosstown Lofts', a 1996 project for the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City, was published in the Regional Plan Association's Third Regional Plan. Mr. Cathcart has participated as an Urban Designer in RPA workshops in Long Island City, NY; Newark, NJ; Stamford, CN; Somerville, NJ; Hastings-on-Hudson, NY; West Harlem, NYC; and Milan, Italy.

Mr. Cathcart founded Kiss + Cathcart, Architects with Gregory Kiss in 1983. In 1987, Gregory Kiss and Colin Cathcart were chosen from young architects across the country for a profile in the 'Young Architects' issue of Progressive Architecture. The firm was awarded a 1996 Progressive Architecture Citation and 1995 National AIA Education Honors with John Loomis for their project, 'Manufacturing Communities'. Mr. Cathcart has been principal-in-charge of numerous industrial, residential and institutional projects, both new construction and renovations, with costs between $50,000 and $10,000,000. Articles by Mr. Cathcart on alternative energy and construction techniques have appeared recently in Architectural Record and Architecture, and his projects and built work have been reviewed in The New York Times, Metropolis, Architecture, Architectural Record, Novelle Directions de l'Architecture Moderne, and A Field Guide to American Architecture. In 1994, he headed the team that won an invited competition for the renovation and expansion (completed in 1998) of The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho, New York City, and in 2000, the team that won an RFP competition for the design (to be built in 2004) of an Environmental Learning Center on Stuyvesant Cove on the East River near 23rd Street.

Mr. Cathcart has also been active as an educator. Since 1989, he has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, Parsons School of Design, and The City College, teaching urban design, urban design, and architectural technology. In 1997, Mr. Cathcart was appointed Associate Professor to direct the undergraduate architecture programs at Fordham University. Mr. Cathcart now also serves on the Urban Studies executive committee and as Associate Director of Environmental Studies for Fordham.

Peter Crumlish is the Director of Partnerships for Parks, a public/private initiative of the City of New York/Parks & Recreation and the City Parks Foundation. Partnerships provides technical assistance to community groups through the five boroughs to help them organize around their neighborhood parks. He began at Partnerships in 1999 as the Catalyst Project Coordinator for Crotona Park, a 127-acre park in the South Bronx, where he helped to form the Friends of Crotona Park and to increase educational and recreational programming. Before joining Partnerships for Parks, Peter spent two years with the Peace Corps in the Philippines as a teacher trainer, designing and conducting workshops in English and environmental education. Working with the Philippine Department of Education, he helped create an environmental education curriculum to be integrated with the national curriculum. He also helped organize and run an environmental education camp that promoted environmental awareness in high school students and teachers through experiential activities, writing and games. Prior to Peace Corps, Peter taught various age groups in both Tokyo and New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1990 with a B.A. in History.

De Sousa is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is also a member of the Urban Studies faculty and a Faculty Fellow with the Consortium for Economic Opportunity at UWM. He received his Master of Science in Planning in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Geography in 2000, both from the University of Toronto. His research activities focus on various aspects of urban brownfield redevelopment in Canada and the United States, including the conversion of brownfields into green space. He is also actively involved in community work involving urban environmental management, brownfield redevelopment and sustainability reporting.

Paul Goldberger, one of the nation's most eminent writers in the field of architecture, design and urbanism, has been the architecture critic at The New Yorker magazine since July, 1997. As The New Yorker's architecture critic, he continues the magazine's celebrated "Sky Line" column, a position once held by Lewis Mumford and more recently by Brendan Gill. He is also a contributing writer of Architectural Digest, and the author of several books, including the text for The World Trade Center Remembered, which has just been published by Abbeville Press, and Manhattan Unfurled, just published by Random House. He is also at work on a book on the experience of looking at architecture, to be published by Random House.

He joined Conde Nast, which publishes both The New Yorker and Architectural Digest, in July of 1997, following a 25-year career at The New York Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for his architecture criticism, the highest award in journalism. He joined the staff of The Times in 1972, and was named architecture critic in 1973. In 1990 he was named cultural news editor of The Times, and in 1994 he became the paper's chief cultural correspondent.

He lectures widely around the country on the subject of architecture, design, historic preservation and cities, and for several years taught architecture criticism at the Yale School of Architecture. His writing has received numerous awards in addition to the Pulitzer, including the President's Medal of the Municipal Art Society of New York, the medal of the American Institute of Architects, and the Medal of Honor of the New York Landmarks Preservation Foundation, awarded in recognition of what the Foundation called "the nation's most balanced, penetrating and poetic analyses of architecture and design." He has also received the Roger Starr Journalism Award from the Citizens Housing and Planning Council; the Award of Merit of the Lotos Club, presented to writers of distinction; and in 1993 was named a Literary Lion, the New York Public Library's tribute to distinguished writers. In May, 1996, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani presented him with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's Preservation Achievement Award in recognition of the impact of his writing on historic preservation in New York. He has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Pratt Institute in New York, the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit and the New York School of Interior Design for his work as a critic and cultural commentator on architecture urban design. He appears frequently on film and television to discuss art, architecture, and cities, most recently in Ken Burns's film for public television on Frank Lloyd Wright, in the PBS series "Building Big," and a program broadcast in the spring of 2002 on The Learning Channel entitled "Super Structures," for which he acted as on-camera host. Among his earlier books are "The City Observed: New York," "The Skyscraper," "On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age," and "Above New York."

He and his wife, Susan Solomon, are the parents of three sons, Adam, Ben and Alex. They live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan

Elisabeth M. Hamin is a regional planning assistant professor in the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning department at the University of Massachusetts. She previously taught at Iowa State University, and holds a Ph.D. from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Management from J.L.Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. Prior to her Ph.D. studies, Hamin worked in private sector real estate development and consulting. Her teaching focuses on growth management/land-use planning, planning theory, and sustainable communities. Her research centers on protecting working landscapes in ways that address both the public good of ecological protection and economic and life needs of residents in those areas. A second track of research is examines the politics of growth management, particularly at the state and regional level. She has a book forthcoming (2002) from Johns Hopkins University Press entitled Mojave Lands: Interpretive Planning and the National Preserve , which examines the arguments for and against land protection and introduces ways to include qualitative research methods into the standard planning process, particularly in situations of significant conflict in values among those directly affected by policy and other stakeholders.

Handel, N. Steven

Steven N. Handel, Professor of Ecology and Evolution at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, studies the potential to restore native communities to many habitats. He has explored pollination, seed dispersal, growth patterns, and most recently, problems of urban and heavily degraded lands. Dr. Handel was trained first at Columbia College and then received his M.S. and Ph.D. at Cornell University. Previous to his Rutgers appointment in 1985, he was a biology professor and director of the Marsh Botanic Garden at Yale University. Dr. Handel is an editor of Restoration Ecology and of Urban Habitats, and is an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. He currently is Director of the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology, a joint initiative of Rutgers and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, dedicated to teaching graduate students and professionals, and conducting research on native habitats and their biotic improvement throughout the region.

Tony Hiss, an independent author, lecturer, and consultant about restoring America's cities and landscapes, became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1963, and is now a Visiting Scholar at New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. He is the author of eleven books, including "The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir" and "The Experience of Place," and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Gourmet, The Atlantic, and Travel & Leisure. Hiss, the founder of Nature Rail, a new environmental initiative, has written vision statements for the H2O (Highlands-to-Ocean) Fund; the Great American Station Foundation; and the Hudson River Valley Greenway. Hiss consults frequently on changing regional growth patterns, and has lectured widely in the U.S. and Canada. He is completing "From Place to Place," about solving America's transportation and sprawl problems, and contributed a foreword for the new edition of William H. Whyte's "The Last Landscape."

Albert LaFarge is the editor of The Essential William H. Whyte (Fordham University Press, 2000) and literary columnist for Boston's Metro newspaper. He lives in Massachusetts.

Andrew Light (Associate Program Organizer) is Assistant Professor of Environmental Philosophy, and Director of the Environmental Conservation Education Program at New York University. Light is the author of over fifty articles and book chapters on environmental ethics, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of film, and has edited or co-edited thirteen books, including Environmental Pragmatism, (Routledge, 1996), Social Ecology after Bookchin (Guilford, 1998), Philosophies of Place (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology (MIT, 2000) Technology and the Good Life? (Chicago, 2000), and Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (MIT 2002). Light is also co-editor of the journal Philosophy and Geography. He is currently completing a book on ethical issues in restoration ecology, under grants from the National Science Foundation and a University of Texas Harrington Fellowship.

Charles E. Little is an author and editor specializing in the American landscape and the environment. His most recent book (co-author) is Sacred Lands of Indian America (Abrams 2001). The Dying of the Trees, now in paperback (Penguin 1997), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Little is also editorial director of the American Land Publishing Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization that produces illustrated books (Liveoak Editions) on land and landscape, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Geography at the University of New Mexico. A native Californian, he has lived for long periods in New York, where he headed the Open Space Institute, and in Washington, D.C., where he directed natural resource policy research for the Library of Congress and was founder-president of the American Land Forum. He has lived in New Mexico since 1994.

Dave Lutz is a voice for public space in New York City. He is a principal information source for the 350-mile long NYC greenways system, now being developed with over $100 million in transportation funds. His organization's FREE monthly newsletter is considered the best of in its field in the United States and reaches over 10,000 people a month. It is available at www.treebranch.net. As Executive Director of Neighborhood Open Space Coalition he seeks to find common ground with diverse constituencies. From this outreach comes his partnership with the NYC Department of Health that has resulted in the Take a Walk, New York! program. Take a Walk, New York! has introduced the joys of urban walking to over a thousand New Yorkers in four seasons of regular health walks that now average almost 100 people a walk.

Lynden B. Miller is a public garden designer in New York City and the Director of The Conservatory Garden in Central Park which she rescued and restored beginning in 1982. Greatly influenced by Holly Whyte and based on her belief that public open spaces with good well-maintained plantings can change city life, she has designed many other gardens and parks around the city since that time. Her work includes gardens for Bryant Park, The New York Botanical Garden, Wagner Park in Battery Park City and Columbia University. Her latest projects are Madison Square Park and Segment 5 of Hudson River Park.

Colleen Murphy-Dunning holds a B.S. in Public and Environmental Affairs from Indiana University, and a M.S. in Forestry from Humboldt State University. Ms. Murphy-Dunning is the Director of the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Prior to coming to Yale University in '95, she taught at the Kenya Forestry College. Through the URI program, Yale students learn community forestry methods while contributing to the neighborhoods of New Haven. In addition, Ms. Murphy-Dunning partners with faculty to instruct courses in environmental justice, monitoring and evaluation methods, and urban ecology.

Rutherford H. Platt is Professor of Geography and Planning Law at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a National Associate of The National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale and a J.D. and Ph. D (Geography) from the University of Chicago. He specializes in public policy concerning land and water resource management, natural hazards, and urban planning. His most recent books are Land Use and Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy (Island Press, 1996), Disasters and Democracy: The Politics of Extreme Natural Events (Island Press, 1999), and The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994). He currently chairs the Natural Disasters Roundtable of the National Research Council (NRC) and is a member of the NRC Water Science and Technology Board and its new Committee on Water Quality Improvement for the Pittsburgh Region. He is founder and head of the Ecological Cities Project, which recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation for a two-year study of urban watershed management experience in the U. S.

Deborah E. Popper teaches geography at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island, where she also participates in the environmental science, American studies, and international studies programs. With Frank Popper she has analyzed the American Great Plains and invented the concept of the Buffalo Commons, a way to inhabit the region's rural areas in a sustainable manner. Their ideas about the Great Plains region have stimulated a national debate. She is now exploring how different American regions have historically responded to long-term population loss.

Frank J. Popper teaches in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, where he also participates in th Geography and American Studies Departments. He is author of The President's Commissions (1970) and The Politics of Land-Use Reform (1981), coauthor of Urban Nongrowth: City Planning for People (1976), and coeditor of Land Reform, American Style (1984) and The Buffalo Commons and the Future of the Great Plains (forthcoming).

Roberts, T. Richard

Richard T. Roberts is a Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs and Co. where he directs the Urban Investment Group, a private equity effort designed to expand economic opportunity throughout the country, particularly, in the cities where Goldman operates.

Roberts' work at Goldman is a continuation of an impressive career focused on improving our nation's urban areas with a particular focus on his adopted hometown of New York City. Roberts' work has touched business and economic development, education, housing and community development and urban health. In March 2000, Roberts became Chairman of the Board of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest public hospital system in the United States. HHC is a $4.3 billion public benefit corporation that provides hundreds of millions of dollars in free and low cost health care to poor and uninsured New York City residents through its network of 11 acute-care hospitals and neighborhood-based diagnostic and treatment centers. Each year 1.3 million people-or one in six New Yorkers--- are treated in an HHC facility.

Prior to joining Goldman, Roberts served as the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the nation's largest combined municipal affordable housing and community development agency. As Commissioner of HPD, Roberts directed and agency staff of nearly 3,000 and an $800 million budget. During Roberts' tenure the agency structured financing of over $1 billion and created 40,000 units of housing. In addition, Roberts created several creative programs such as the first middle income-housing program in New York City in decades, the New Housing Opportunities Program. During Roberts' tenure, the agency also received national recognition for its programming, including the prestigious Harvard University Kennedy School Innovation in American Government Award.

In 1998, Mayor Giuliani appointed Roberts to the Mayor's Advisory Task Force on the City University of New York. The Task Force's groundbreaking report was released in April 1999. As an Assistant to Mayor Giuliani from 1994 to 1995, Mr. Roberts oversaw major policy initiatives that emphasized "reinventing" city government. The areas for which he was responsible included inner-city economic development, public housing and education policy. In that position, Mr. Roberts advanced a particularly successful and far-seeing enterprise, the Alliance for Neighborhood Commerce, Home Ownership and Revitalization (ANCHOR), designed to increase home ownership and local commercial development in distressed City neighborhoods.

From 1996 to 1997 Roberts served as Vice President of Government and Community Relations at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, directing governmental relations and community outreach efforts with a particular emphasis on the East Harlem community. From 1993 to 1994 he worked with Yale president Benno C. Schmidt as Vice President of the Edison Schools, a private enterprise managing public schools. As an associate at the Wall Street firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell from 1989 to 1993, Mr. Roberts represented corporate clients in international business transactions.

Educated at Yale University, from which he received the Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees, Roberts participates extensively in a wide range of civic, community and international affairs activities. Roberts is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He is also a trustee of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the oldest children's museum in the nation and is also a trustee and Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Student/Sponsor Partnership, the German Marshall Fund of the U.S, Safe Horizon, the YMCA of Greater New York, New Alternatives for Children and the New York City Residential Mortgage Insurance Corporation. Roberts serves on the Board of Advisors of the School of Public Affairs of Baruch College and is advisory Board member for The Enterprise Foundation's NYC office and the Fannie Mae New York City Partnership Office. In addition, Roberts is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the City Bar Association, the American Council on Germany and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Roberts and his wife, Janice Roberts live in Manhattan and have two children, Annie and Taylor.

Adam Rome has degrees in history from Yale and the University of Kansas, where he earned his Ph. D. under Donald Worster. He also studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He now is a member of the history department at Pennsylvania State University. His book, The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism, was published last year by Cambridge University Press. The Bulldozer in the Countryside recently won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award, which is given by the Organization of American Historians to the best first book in American history. The title of his talk: "William Whyte and the Challenge of Smart Growth."

Maitreyi is an Associate Director with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia Green Program. Maitreyi oversees program planning, development and implementation of Philadelphia Green's community greening efforts in enhancing neighborhood parks, developing community gardens and beautifying streets in the City. Previously, Maitreyi served as the Project Manager of the Parks Revitalization Initiative where she developed strategies for rehabilitating park sites through community action, partnership building and volunteerism. For the last several years, Maitreyi has been overseeing the Society's vacant land management initiatives. She has been partnering with city officials, neighborhood-based organizations, and other non-profits to identify strategies for effectively addressing and managing vacant land in Philadelphia. Formerly, Maitreyi, a Landscape Architect, worked with the City of Boston's Parks and Recreation Department as a Project Manager. Her work there included design and development of community parks and open space resources with many neighborhood groups. Her responsibilities included management and implementation of capital improvement programs, master planning of park sites and facilitating environmental education and design workshops with school groups. Maitreyi has been involved in the field of community-based design and planning of open space resources as a Landscape Architect for about ten-years. Her interest in open space issues took her to the School of Design at Harvard University where she graduated with a Masters in Landscape Architecture.

Robert L. Ryan, ASLA is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he teaches courses on greenway and open space planning, environment and behavior, and research methods. He holds a PhD in Natural Resources (Environment and Behavior Concentration), Master in Landscape Architecture and Master of Urban Planning degrees from the University of Michigan and Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Dr. Ryan is a registered landscape architect in the state of California where he practiced for seven years as a planner and landscape architect. His current research interests include understanding the factors that affect people's attachment to parks and open space, the use of greenways for stormwater and habitat restoration, and preserving rural character through innovative land use planning. He is the co-author with Rachel and Stephen Kaplan of the award-winning book, With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature (Island Press, 1998). In addition, he is the co-director of the New England Greenway Vision Plan project.

William B. Shore is a Senior Associate at the Institute of Public Administration, affiliated with NYU. He has a Master's degree in Government from Manchester University (UK) and all but the thesis PhD work at Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

He was at Regional Plan Association from 1961-1996, responsible for public information and pioneered in public participation in regional planning. From 1956-61, he was Publications Director for the American Society for Public Administration and Managing Editor of Public Administration Review. Previously, he directed research for political campaigns of Hubert H. Humphrey and Orville L. Freeman

Tupper Thomas is the President of the Prospect Park Alliance and the Administrator of Prospect Park, a 526-acre park designed by Fredrick Law Olmsted in Brooklyn, New York. Over the twenty year period of her leadership, the public-private partnership has restored a 1912 Carousel, transformed Lefferts Homestead into a children's historic house museum, renovated playgrounds and spearheaded a campaign to save Brooklyn's last forest, 150 acres of ailing woodlands in the Park. The restoration of the landmarked Boathouse will be completed this year and will open as the country's first urban Audubon Center. She also serves as the Chair of the Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Consortium.

Alexandra Whyte works in electronic publishing and consults occasionally on the development and redevelopment of urban public spaces. From Tokyo to Baltimore she has studied the behavioral patterns of people using plazas, parks, sidewalks and cafes. Alexandra has a B.A. in Urban Studies and Religion from Barnard College and a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard University. The daughter of the late William H. Whyte, she currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with her husband and two young daughters.

Yaro, D. Robert

Robert D. Yaro is the President of Regional Plan Association. Based in Manhattan, RPA is America's oldest and most distinguished independent metropolitan research and advocacy group. He is also Practice Professor in City and Regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania. As Executive Director of RPA from 1999 - 2001 Mr. Yaro led the five-year effort to prepare RPA's Third Regional Plan, A Region at Risk, which he co-authored in 1996. In 2001, under his leadership, RPA convened the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a broad-based coalition of civic groups formed to guide redevelopment in Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. He holds a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University and a Bachelors Degree in Urban Studies from Wesleyan University.