Bio: Founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative Planner, Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company Program Assistant, GetDowntown program, Ann Arbor Director of Fundraising, Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition
Education: B.A. American Cultural Studies, Bates College, 2004 M.U.P Physical Planning and Design, University of Michigan, 2007
Key Publications: The Smart Growth Manual, Tactical Urbanism, Vol 1, Tactical Urbanism, Vol 2, The Open Streets Project Guide
Other Publications: Living Urbanism (editor)
Past Assignments: - "Introducing the Bicycle Module," SmartCode Retreat New Town St. Charles, MO February 2010 - "Smart Location and Linkage" Vision Long Island LEED- ND Conference, Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, Farmingdale, NY March 23, 2010 - "Innovation and the Built Environment," and "Taming the Car Culture," Creative Cities Summit - Lexington, KY, April 7-9, 2010 - "Retrofitting Suburbia" Westchester Land Trust / CNU New York Chapter Retofitting Suburbia Conference, May 5, 2010 - CNU 18: Rx for Healthy Places - Atlanta, GA, May 19-22, 2010 - "Smart Growth101-999, with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck - Why isn’t Atlanta the Next Big Bicycling City? - The New Urbanism on Two Wheels - "Avenues of Prosperity: The Economic Benefit of Open Streets Initiatives" New England Bike-Walk Summit, Providence, RI, October 10, 2010 - Streets As Places in conjunction with Project for Public Spaces November 4-5, 148 Lafayette Street, New York City - Vision Long Island Smart Growth Summit: Youth Summit and Charrette November 19th, 2010 - ACT Sustainable Mobility Summit 2010, November 24th, Ottawa, Canada - "Driving Us Nuts: Parking, Parking Reform, and the Search for a Walkable City" December 1st, 2010, Green South Miami - "Planning for Non-Motorized Transportation," Moderator, Reinventing Our Places Workshop, March 11, 2011, Mt. St. Mary College, Newburgh, NY - CNU19: Growing Local, Madison, WI June 1-4, 2011 - "Smart Growth 101-999" w/Andres Duany and Jeff Speck - "The New Urbanism and the Bicycle: A Dialogue" - "Sprawl Retrofit at the Micro Scale: Repairing in All Dimensions" - "CNU New York Salon: Tactical Urbanism in New York City and Beyond" - "DIY vs. Tactical Urbanism," w/ Aurash Khawarzad, 72 Hour Urban Action Workshop, an Urban Design Week event at P.S. 1, Queens, NY, September 17, 2011 - A Discussion with Streetfilms and Transportation Alternatives, Guggenheim Lab, New York City, October 9th, 2011. Details. - "Social Media and Community Participation," Suffolk County Planning Conference, Brookhaven, NY, October 12, 2011. Details. - "Tactical Urbanism: A Brief History," Tactical Urbanism Salon, a Congress of Collectives event, Flux Factory, October 15, 2011 - "Street Network Planning and LEED-ND," Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals Professional Development Seminar, Charlotte, NC, October 26th, 2011 - Americas Ciclovias Network International Congress, Medellin, Colombia, November 3, 4, 5, 6th, 2011. Details. - Red Nacional de Ciclismo Urbano's 4th National Congress of Urban Cycling, Monterrey, Mexico, November 11, 12, 13th, 2011. Details.
Bio: Laura Kaminski has worked as a planner for sixteen years. She has worked for the City of Oakland, California, for almost eight years in both current and strategic planning. Before working for Oakland, she worked in North Carolina on various long-range plans for different communities. Currently in Oakland, she is the Project Manager for the City’s Parklet Program, which is in the pilot stages. She is creating permanent Parklet regulations for the City. She also is working on Oakland’s Broadway Valdez Specific Plan to help bring destination retail to the City along with a complete neighborhood, and she is assisting in updating the City’s parking regulations. One of her recent projects was, as an Assistant Project Manager for the Zoning Update, she helped in rewriting Oakland’s Commercial and Residential Zoning Codes along with rezoning over 100,000 parcels of the City’s Zoning Map. These codes had not been comprehensively updated since 1965.
Education: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee • MS in Urban Planning, May 1997, emphasis in Urban Design • BS in Architectural Studies, May 1994 • Certificate in Urban Planning Studies, May 1994
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