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GEOFFREY DYER
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
AFFILIATION:
Principal, Civic Design Group, Inc.
AREA
OF EXPERTISE:
New Urbanist design and urban infrastructure
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE:
Geoff is an urban designer and principal with a
progressive urban design and town planning firm focused on the creation of
compact, walkable, and sustainable communities. He has broad experience in
land-development planning and policy, municipal planning, urban development, and
building design, and has worked with some of North America’s foremost New
Urbanist communities and urban designers. He is involved with projects in South
Carolina, North Carolina, California, Kansas City, Ontario, Memphis,
Mississippi, and Calgary, and was a member of the Mississippi Renewal Forum in
Biloxi in October, 2005. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in design from
Arizona State University, Geoff worked several years as an urban planner with
land-development engineering and planning firms in Calgary. He received his
master’s degree in environmental design from the University of Calgary and
continued to work as an independent consultant in urban design with an emphasis
on Smart Growth and New Urbanism. He serves as a sessional instructor for the
master’s degree program in urban design at the University of Calgary and
lectures widely on Smart Growth, sustainable urban design, and urbanism.
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Geoff’s research is titled “A Basis and Coding Rationale for Modern
Medieval-Type Town Planning.” In this project, he is exploring a rationale for
the contemporary expression of medieval town design and a method for regulating
its form through an urban code. He will apply and test his methodology on a
number of projects, both actual and theoretical. His end product will be an
illustrative essay.
E-MAIL:
gdyer@civicdesigngroup.com
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