Monte Anderson

COURSE: Multi-Generational Deman for Urbanism

Monte Anderson is the President of Options Real Estate Investments, Inc. a multi-service real estate company specializing in creating sustainable neighborhoods in southern Dallas and northern Ellis counties. Mr. Anderson began his real estate career in 1984 and since that time has concentrated solely on improving the living and working environments in these communities. His company developed Main Station, the first mixed-use development in Duncanville, Texas.

He is also responsible for the renovation of the historic Belmont Hotel, a 68-room boutique hotel, café and spa located in the Trinity River Corridor of Dallas and which was the recipient of Preservation Dallas and Preservation Texas awards. His most recent development is a 131-acre mixed-use, traditional neighborhood development currently under construction in Midlothian, Texas. Mr. Anderson is the recipient of numerous awards and honors for his community involvement and he currently serves as president of the founding board of directors for the North Texas Chapter of CNU.  [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

Timothy Beatley

COURSE: The Sustainable City

Timothy Beatley is Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for the last eighteen years. His primary teaching and research interests are in environmental planning and policy, with special emphasis on coastal and natural hazards planning, environmental values and ethics, and biodiversity conservation. He has published extensively in these areas, including the following recent books: Ethical Land Use (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994); Habitat Conservation Planning: Endangered Species and Urban Growth (University of Texas Press, 1994), Natural Hazard Mitigation (Island Press, 1999, with David Godschalk and others); and An Introduction to Coastal Zone Management (Island Press, 2002, Second Edition, with David Brower and Anna Schwab).

In recent years much of his research and writing has been focused on the subject of sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming more livable and equitable places. To this end, he is the recent author of The Ecology of Place (Island Press, 1997), with Kristy Manning, which reviews innovative local sustainability practice from around the country and provides practical guidance on creating more sustainable urban form, restorative local economies, and stronger communities. Beatley has recently returned from a year's research in Europe, specifically examining the experiences of some 30 cities, in twelve European countries. The findings of this study have been published in a recent book entitled Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities (Island Press, 2000). He is also the author of a new book Native to Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age (also published by Island Press, December, 2004).

Beatley holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

Robert S. Davis

COURSE: Seaside Florida Tours

Andres Duany

COURSES: Seaside Florida Tours, Green Solutions Along the Transect & New Urbanism Basics: Changing the Model

He has received the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Medal, the Dreihaus Prize and two honorary doctorates. The Richard H. Driehaus Prize is awarded to a living architect whose work embodies the principles of traditional and classical architecture and urbanism in contemporary society, and creates a positive, long-lasting cultural, environmental and artistic impact. It is presented annually by the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. The Henry Hope Reed Award is given in conjunction with the Driehaus Prize to an individual working outside the practice of architecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city, its architecture and art through writing, planning or promotion. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

Doug Farr

COURSE: The Sustainable City

Farr Associates also holds the unique distinction of being the only architecture firm in the world that has designed three LEED- Platinum buildings: Christy Webber Landscapes, the Chicago Center for Green Technology and the Center for Neighborhood Technology. An architecture graduate of the University of Michigan and Columbia University, Doug is on the board of the Congress for the New Urbanism and also chairs the LEED Neighborhood Development project (LEED-ND), a first ever leadership standard for sustainable land developments, currently in its pilot phase. Having worked for Davis- Brody and Paul Rudolph in New York and John Vinci and Perkins and Will in Chicago, Farr's own work has been featured in Architectural Record, the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune. Doug has also found time to write a book: Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature, a book that visualizes Sustainable Urbanism—the growing sustainable design convergence that integrates walkable and transit-served urbanism with high-performance infrastructure and buildings—as the normal pattern of development in the United States by 2030. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

James Howard Kunstler

COURSE: Our Civic Spaces

His next book in the series, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, published by Simon & Schuster / Free Press, is a look a wide-ranging look at cities here and abroad, an inquiry into what makes them great (or miserable), and in particular what America is going to do with it's mutilated cities. The Long Emergency, published by the Atlantic Monthly Press in 2005, is about the challenges posed by the coming permanent global oil crisis, climate change, and other "converging catastrophes of the 21st Century." And his latest book is a fictional dramatization of the post-oil society he describes in The Long Emergency, entitled Hand Made World. The Atlantic Monthly Press also published his novel, Maggie Darling, in 2004. Mr. Kunstler is also the author of eight other novels including The Halloween Ball, An Embarrassment of Riches.

He is a regular contributor to the New York Times Sunday Magazine and Op-Ed page, where he has written on environmental and economic issues. Mr. Kunstler was born in New York City in 1948. He moved to the Long Island suburbs in 1954 and returned to the city in 1957 where he spent most of his childhood. He graduated from the State University of New York, Brockport campus, worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. He has no formal training in architecture or the related design fields. He has lectured at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, RPI, the University of Virginia and many other colleges, and he has appeared before many professional organizations such as the AIA , the APA., and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He lives in Saratoga Springs in upstate New York. James Kunstler, Our Civic Spaces [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

Marcia Jimenez

COURSE: The Sustainable City

Todd C. LaRue

COURSE: Multi-Generational Demand for Urbainsm

His work has included consulting for numerous types of mixed- use developments, residential housing, retail, office, and industrial developments. Prior to joining RCLCO, Mr. LaRue’s professional career includes over seven years of experience in construction management with Beers Construction (now Skanska USA) in Atlanta, GA and W. H. Bass, Inc. in Norcross, GA. Much of his work was concentrated on managing construction projects in retail, banking, education, and telecommunication. In addition, he served as a construction manager for tenant improvement projects at Peachtree Center in downtown Atlanta. Mr. LaRue is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and brings strong analytical skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis to RCLCO with his civil engineering degree from the University of Virginia and Master in Business Administration degree in real estate and finance from Emory University. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

John Massengale

COURSE: Coding Modernism

Neal Payton

COURSE: Coding Modernism

Mr. Payton’s urban design efforts have been honored nationally with AIA Honor Awards for Regional and Urban Design in 2002 and 2003, an AIA Housing Committee Award in 2004, and several Charter Awards from the Congress for the New Urbanism including two in 2004 and one in 2006. Included in these award winning efforts are a set of military family housing neighborhoods at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, an urban design primer for builders and civic groups, commercial revitalization studies in Virginia, Maryland, Florida and California, and Transit Oriented Developments (TODs) along Washington DC’s Metro rail lines.

Mr. Payton is currently working on TOD planning for the Westside Extension of the Purple Line along Wilshire Blvd in L.A., and the redevelopment of Wyvernwood a 70-acre site in Boyle Heights, as well as the Revitalizaiton of Coast Highway in Oceanside, CA among other efforts. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

Jeff B. Speck

COURSE: The Sustainable Block

He is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream as well as the forthcoming Smart Growth Manual. A native of Belmont, Massachusetts, Speck joined Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk as a project manager in 1993. He received a master's in architecture with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he studied under Raphael Moneo, Fred Koetter and Jorge Silvetti and served as a head teaching fellow in fine arts at Harvard College. He graduated magna cum laude from Williams College and also holds a master's in art history, earned as a Syracuse University fellow in Florence, Italy. Prior to his graduate study, Speck worked as a financial analyst in the housing group at the investment bank of First Boston. Projects that he directed or managed for DPZ include new neighborhoods in New Jersey, Wisconsin, Colorado, Toronto, Germany and Belgium. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]

With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Speck is the co-author of the book Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream, published March, 2000 by North Point / Farrar Straus Giroux.

Tiffany Sweitzer

COURSE: The High Intensity Block

Under Sweitzer's direction, Hoyt Street Properties' projects have achieved awards from the American Institute of Architecture and received national recognition from publications such as the New York Times, Builder Magazine and Professional Builder.

Sweitzer sits on the board of Portland Streetcar Inc., the River District Steering Committee, TriMet, and Portland Center Stage where she is instrumental in fundraising and planning for future developments in the city of Portland. She is also a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Congress for the New Urbanism. [TO ENROLL IN THIS COURSE, CREATE AN ACCOUNT HERE]