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Implementation
Program Assistence
TEAM BIOGRAPHIES
Selected
communities will receive significant technical assistance from a
uniquely talented and experienced team of policy, planning, development
and design professionals. The following people will be collaborating
with staff from the Smart Growth Leadership
Institute.
Deepak Bahl: Deepak Bahl (M.Pl., 1996; M.Arch.,
1991) is a lecturer in the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development
and serves as the Associate Director for the USC Center for Economic
Development and the Community Development & Design Forum.
He has more than seven years of professional experience in economic
development, transportation planning, and urban design. His work
experience includes project and organizational management; teaching
at the graduate level in the University of Southern California;
grant proposal and report writing; policy research and analysis;
setting up survey instruments; and mapping and design.
Mr. Bahl has conducted research studies for various agencies including
the Federal Highway Administration, Fannie Mae, Department of Housing
& Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.
Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration, local
governments, and nonprofits. He received the Gordon Whitnall Award
for Exceptional Promise for Achievement in the Field of Planning
(1996). He has worked in architectural firms in a variety of capacities
on residential, commercial and industrial projects in Bombay, Los
Angeles, and San Diego. He received his Master?s of Planning
degree from USC School of Urban Planning and Development, Master?s
of Architecture from Clemson University, Clemson, and Bachelor?s
of Architecture from Punjab University, India.
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Tridib
Banerjee, James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, University
of Southern California
Professor Banerjee serves as Director of the Community Development
and Design Forum and is the principal investigator of USC’s
Center for Economic Development. His research and consulting activities
include both domestic and international projects spanning a broad
range of topics. His areas of interest include comparative urbanism
and urbanization, user perceptions of residential environments,
privatization of public life and space, and social equity in urban
form among others.
His publications include: Beyond the Neighborhood Unit (with William
C. Baer.), City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of
Kevin Lynch (co-edited with Michael Southworth), Urban Design Downtown:
Poetics and Politics of Form (with Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris).
Recent projects conducted through the Community Development and
Design Center include several projects in transit-oriented development,
such as the Growth Response Study conducted in partnership with
RAND in the San Joaquin Valley.
William
Fleissig, University of Colorado
Mr. Fleissig is a developer, urban designer and architect who has
devoted his career in both the public and private sectors to creating
vibrant, mixed-use communities. He is a member of the Urban Land
Institute, and has been an active member of the Congress for the
New Urbanism since 1992, serving as the local co-chair for the 1998
Congress held in Denver. He is currently CNU’s chair of the
Greyfield Mall Advisory Committee. He is the principal author of
the Smart Scorecard for Development Projects, funded by the CNU
and federal EPA.
In addition to his academic activities, Will also has worked on
the public side of the planning counter. He served as the Director
for Community Design, Planning and Development for the City of Boulder,
Colorado, from 1994 to 1997. For the seven years prior to that,
he was the managing partner of Equity Community Builders, a firm
which focused on mixed-income and transit-based housing. From 1984
to 1987, he was Denver’s Director of Downtown Planning and
Development.
William
Fulton, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southern California
William Fulton holds a Master of Arts degree in Journalism/Public
Affairs and in Urban Planning. He has extensive experience both
as a university lecturer, teaching classes at USC, the University
of California-Santa Barbara, California Polytechnic Institute—Pomona,
and the University of California – Davis Extension. He has
also serves as a land use and urban policy consultant to a wide
variety of government agencies, think tanks, universities, and private
clients through Solimar Research Group, which he founded.
Mr. Fulton is author of Guide to California Planning, The Regional
City, The Reluctant Metropolis, and is founder, editor, and publisher
of California Planning and Development Report, a widely read and
highly respected monthly newsletter.
Susan
Weaver, M.Pl., MA (Econ)
Ms. Weaver holds both Master of Planning and MA (Economics) degrees
from the University of Southern California. She has more than a
decade?s experience working on planning and urban economic
issues in the public and private sectors. As a consulting economist,
she has conducted socioeconomic and fiscal impact analyses of residential,
commercial and industrial projects throughout California. As a consulting
planner, she handles land use entitlement cases, and advises on
intergovernmental relations. In addition, Susan has had extensive
experience in policy research and analysis of land use and housing
issues, government finance, and air quality regulation, and has
worked on these issues at the local, regional, and state levels.
Previously, Ms. Weaver served as President and Executive Director
of the Kern Transportation Foundation, a non-governmental organization
focused on regional transportation planning and construction funding.
She also coordinated a regional growth management project for the
Kern County, California, Resource Management Agency, and served
as the assistant to a county supervisor. She was a member of the
Planning Commission of Bakersfield, California, for five years,
and served on several county advisory committees. Ms. Weaver was
recently appointed to her third term on the Ojai, California, Redevelopment
Commission.
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