Charles C. Bohl

Title:                         Research Associate Professor
                                  Director of the Knight Program in Community Building
Office Location:        Bldg. 35, Room 101
Office Phone:            305-284-4019
E-mail Address:        cbohl@miami.edu
Web Site:                  www.arc.miami.edu/knight

Teaching Area:
Planning, design and development of livable communities

Education:
Ph.D., City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Masters Degree, City and Regional Planning, University of Albany (NY)
Bachelors Degree, Liberal Studies, New York University

Teaching and Administrative Experience:
2000-Current   Director, Knight Program in Community Building, School of Architecture, University of Miami

2003-Current   Academic Chair of the Executive Cte. for the ULI SE Florida/Caribbean Dct. Council

2007-2008 External Evaluator, European School of Urbanism and Architecture (ESUA), a pilot project funded by the European Union involving twelve partner institutions from throughout Europe to develop a model curriculum.

Developed a proposal, established a certificate program and courses for a program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism at the University of Miami School of Architecture. 2004-2007.

Spearheaded national study of real estate programs and developed a curriculum for a one-year masters degree program in Real Estate Development and Urbanism blending the strengths of the Schools of Architecture, Business, Law and Engineering at the University of Miami. 2006-2007 (full program proposal currently under review by the Graduate School Council and visiting committee).

Led development of an online course, Introduction to the Principles and Practice of New Urbanism, to be used by the Congress for the New Urbanism as an official credential recognized by the LEED-Neighborhood Development initiative.

Developed a proposal and established the Smart Growth and the New Economy Program at the Center for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2000 

Professional Experience:
Dr. Bohl lectures and consults widely on planning, urban design, development and place making for public, private and nonprofit sector groups in the U.S. and abroad.

Academic and Professional Honors:
Weiss Urban Livability Award
CNU Charter Award, Beall’s Hill Master Plan and Charrette with Ayers Saint Gross and the Knight Program in Community Building

Publications (selected):
Place Making: Town Centers, Main Streets and Transit Villages.  The Urban Land Institute.
    (2002: Washington, DC).
Co-founder and Co-editor, The Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban
    Sustainability
Sitte, Hegemann, And The Metropolis Modern Civic Art And International Exchanges with Jean-Francois Lejeune
    (New York, NY: Routledge), (forthcoming 2008).
"Affordable Housing Design for Place Making and Community Building." in Chasing the American Dream:
    Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Affordable Homeownership, edited by William Rohe and Harry Watson.
    (2007: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).
“Before and After Reston Town Center” in Reston Town Center: Visions and Reality, A Downtown for the
    Twenty-First Century, Jan Cigliano, editor. (2006: Washington, DC: Academy Press).
“New Urbanism Legacy Projects in Florida” (introduction and essays on Seaside, Mizner Park, Haile Village Center and
    Celebration), CNU Guidebook to Florida, 2^nd Edition, (2005: Miami, Florida: Congress for the New Urbanism-
    Florida Chapter).
“Retail globalization and the New Urbanism: resisting clone town blues,” in New Civic Architecture: The Ecological
    Alternative to Sub-urbanization, Gabrielle Tagliaventi, editor. (2004: Bologna, Italy: University of Ferrara).
"Building Community Across the Rural-to-Urban Transect." Author and guest editor of special issue, with Elizabeth
    Plater-Zyberk, (2006: Places 18 (1), pp 4-17).
“The Return of the Town Center.” Wharton Real Estate Review, Vol VII (1), Spring 2003: 54- 70.
“To What Extent and in What Ways Should Governmental Bodies Regulate Urban Planning?”
    Journal of Markets and Morality, Vol 6 (1), Spring 2003
“New Urbanism in the City: Implications and Applications for Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods.” Housing Policy
    Debate Vol 11 (4): 761-801, 2001.

Community Service:
Organizer/Co-organizer of community building workshops and charrettes in Macon, GA, Coral Gables, FL, San Jose, CA, Coatesville, PA, Duluth, MN, Memphis, TN, Lexington, KY, Biloxi-Gulfport, MS as Director of the Knight Program in Community Building

Juror for planning, design and development award programs, including ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean Vision Awards (2006, 2007); Congress for the New Urbanism-Florida Chapter’s Nolen Award and Barrett Award (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)