For Secretary/Treasurer

Carlos Rodrigues, AICP

carlos@rodriguesurbandesign.com

www.rodriguesurbandesign.com

Biography

Carlos Rodrigues is a Princeton, NJ based urban designer, planner and educator. He maintains a private consulting practice and teaches a graduate planning studio at Rutgers University. He has worked in senior management positions in the private, public and non-profit sectors. His clients include government, public and private institutions, real estate developers, non-profit organizations, farmers, landowners, social service providers and religious congregations. His substantive experience includes statewide and regional planning, real estate entitlement and expert testimony in land use litigation. He is a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Past President of the APA-NJ chapter and a board member of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History. His work on integrating urban design and statewide growth management planning was recognized with a CNU Charter Award. He has an Architecture degree from the Lisbon School of Fine Arts and an MCRP from Rutgers University.

Statement of Interest

I am interested in the secretary/treasurer position because I believe I can make a contribution towards a greater recognition of new urbanism principles within the planning profession, and in particular by showing how new urbanism principles can be better integrated within mainstream planning products. While the new urbanism has become influential at the level of individual development projects, it has not been equally successful in informing the larger-scale planning frameworks — such as municipal comprehensive plans, corridor plans and regional or sub-regional plans — that are the products of the mainstream planning profession. The growing acceptance of new urbanism-inspired Form-Based Codes heightens the need for a greater convergence in this area. I would like to see the APA-NU Division raise this issue within the APA membership and show how it can be better addressed.