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Beall's Hill Street
Elevation by Ayers/Saint/Gross
Spring 2005 Fellow, Scholar and Faculty Updates
Lester Abberger (KF
’02) has been appointed to the City of Tallahassee Urban Design Commission in
February 2005 and was re-elected to the Board of The Conservation Campaign in
January 2005 and appointed chair of the campaign's finance committee. He also
joined the corporate board of Fugelberg Koch Architects (Orlando) in March 2005
and was elected as vice president of 1000 Friends of Florida in December 2004.
Charles C. Bohl, Knight Program Director, was awarded an Innovative
Teaching Grant in June 2004 by the University of Miami Provost’s Office for the
Knight Program course, Introduction to Finance for Real Estate Development. He
successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, The Social, Civic and
Symbolic Functions of the Public Realm: A Comparative Analysis of New Urbanist
Town Centers and Conventional Shopping Centers. He was awarded his doctorate
in City and Regional Planning from UNC-Chapel Hill in summer 2004.
Carol Coletta (KF ’03) has been named president and CEO of CEOs for
Cities, a position she begins in May 2005. CEOS for Cities is a national,
nonpartisan organization whose mission is to equip urban leaders to strengthen
urban economies. She will be continuing her work as host of the public radio
show Smart City, as well as working on a Knight Program-sponsored book
based on interviews conducted on the show. She will be resigning from her
position as the executive director of the Mayors Institute on City Design, a
program administered by the American Architectural Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Arts, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Michelle Jones (KF
’04) served as campaign manager for Dan
Camp's successful bid for mayor of Starkville, MS (Dan Camp is one of the
signers of the Charter for the New Urbanism). Her Knight Program research will
focus on the election process and how it promoted new urbanist ideals. In
addition, Michelle was named one of Mississippi Business Journal's Top 50
Businesswomen in Mississippi for 2005 and was also named Junior Auxiliary
Chapter Member of the Year for 2005. An 1880s Victorian vernacular house in the
Greensboro Street National Register District that she was involved in restoring
was given the Award of Excellence in Historic Preservation by the Starkville
Central Neighborhood Foundation during Historic Preservation Month.
Gloria Katz (KF ’02) helped to set up the Broward Design Collaborative in
conjunction with Florida Atlantic University. The collaborative is dedicated to
bringing help to communities in terms of smart growth, good design, and urban
planning. She is also involved in creating a separate nonprofit that will be a
county-wide leadership group that guides and supports elected officials and the
public in making good smart growth and new urbanist decisions.
Howard Katz (KF ’03) is the senior fellow at the American Architectural
Foundation. In that position he will help shape content for the Foundation's
programs, including the National Summit on School Design to be held in
Washington, D.C. in October. He will be speaking at CNU XIII in Pasadena in June
on a panel addressing the challenges and opportunities for New Urbanism in
low-growth communities.
Pam Kramer (KF ’03) has
been named to serve on the Commissioner of Minnesota Housing Finance Agency's (MHFA)
Housing Resource Advisory Committee and also on the MHFA Emerging Markets Home
Ownership Initiative Advisory Committee. She was also recently promoted from a
program director to senior program director with LISC.
Joyce Marin (KF ’01)
was named co-chair of the RenewLV committee in spring 2005. RenewLV is the
regional response to the 2003 Brookings Report on Pennsylvania, which revealed
that the Commonwealth had lost its competitiveness against other states due to
its rapidly suburbanizing development trends.
Jessica Cogan Millman (KF ’04) accepted
the position of Maryland Director for the Coalition for Smarter Growth in March
2005. Prior to this, she was deputy director of the Smart Growth Leadership
Institute, chief of staff for the Governor’s Office of Smart Growth in Maryland,
director of Program and Policy Coordination at the Maryland Department of
Planning, and deputy director of the Urban and Economic Development Division at
the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Dan Parolek (KF ’04)
has been hired by the Seaside Development Corp. to work on the masterplan for
the evolution of the Seaside Town Square and beachfront property within the
downtown area. His firm has also been hired to fill the Town Architect position
for Seaside.
Michelle Robinson (KF
’03), Jennifer Hurley (KF ’01), and Jean Krack, Coatesville’s Assistant
City Manager, presented the Knight Program Coatesville charrette and discussed
the charrette process at the Design on the Delaware Conference in Philadelphia
in Fall 2004. In addition, in spring 2005 Michelle was selected as one of
eighteen associates of the Environmental Leadership Program’s Regional Network,
Class of 2005. She has also been working on the Urban Forest, involved in
planting more than 1000 trees in West Philadelphia this spring.
Will Selman (KF ’04)
resigned from his position as staff planner at the Lancaster County Planning
Commission in April 2005. He will be self-employed, working as a new urbanist
planner. His firm’s name is Town Planning and Design Associates
Stuart Sirota (KF ’03)
resigned from Parsons Brinkerhoff in May 2005 and launched his own consulting
practice, TND Planning Group, concentrating on New Urbanism and place-making.
Dhiru Thadani (KF ’01)
has continued to play an integral role in the revitalization of Beall’s Hill,
site of the 2001 Knight Program charrette. He has led the design work completed
by Ayers/Saint/Gross Architects + Planners, which has been recognized with a CNU
(Congress for the New Urbanism) 2005 Charter Award, given for a set of graphic
form-based codes and architectural guidelines.
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