This session, with a geographically diverse faculty of presenters from New England, Florida, and Washington State, integrates planning and law in addressing how linking urban design with historic preservation and an initiative to connect public spaces can yield synergistic results in older, smaller cities desiring to capitalize on their existing built environment and their interest in revitalization.
Presenters, which include two consulting planners, a planner-lawyer, a city director of development, and a planner from the National Park Service will present examples from their experience with successful, and sometimes not-so-successful, efforts to link design with historic preservation in the process of connecting public spaces and providing for economic revitalization.
Presenters bring experience from Hartford, Connecticut, and the development of a national park there in the context of a small, economically-challenged central city which is also developing a process and plan for linking areas of the city. That innovative "IQuilt” culture-based urban design program will capitalize on the proposed national park and the Coltsville Historic District. The Hartford experience will be contrasted and compared with similar undertakings in the Southeast and the Northwest.
Speaker Details
Victor B. Dover, FAICP
Principal
Dover Kohl & Partners
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Bio: Victor Dover cofounded Dover, Kohl & Partners, Town Planners, in 1987. Mr. Dover earned his degrees in architecture and urban design from Virginia Tech and the University of Miami. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He served as CNU’s national chair from 2010 to 2012. Mr. Dover and his firm’s cofounder Joseph Kohl were recently awarded the John Nolen Medal for contributions to urbanism. Their work is found in more than a dozen major textbooks on city planning, and Mr. Dover’s new book The Art of Street Design will be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2013.
James C. O'Connell, AICP
Planner
National Park Service
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Bio: Community Planner at the Boston Office, Northeast Region of the National Park Service, specializing in planning for historic sites and heritage areas Economic Development Officer, Cape Cod Commission
Education: Bates College, B.A. University of Chicago,Urban History, M.A., Ph.D.
Key Publications: The Hub's Metropolis: Greater Boston's Suburban Development from Railroad Suburbs to Smart Growth (MIT Press, 2013). “The Evolution of Twentieth-Century Boston’s Metropolitan Landscape,” in The Landscape History of New England (2011) “How Metropolitan Parks Shaped Greater Boston, 1893-1945,” in Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (2009) Becoming Cape Cod: Creating a Seaside Resort (2003)
Other Publications: The Pioneer Valley Reader (1995) Shaping an Urban Image: Downtown Planning in Springfield, Massachusetts (1990) The Inside Guide to Springfield and the Pioneer Valley (1986)
Past Assignments: “Cultural Landscapes – Facilitating Connections through Trails,” presentation to Connecticut Chapter, American Society of Landscape Architects, October, 2012. “The Prospects for 21st-Century New England Parks,” keynote presentation, Connecticut Urban Forest Council Annual Conference (November, 2010)
Charles R. Wolfe
Attorney
Charles Wolfe Attorney at Law
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Bio: Charles R. (Chuck) Wolfe, M.R.P., J.D , is a Principal at Charles R. Wolfe Attorney at Law in Seattle, where he focuses on land use and environmental law and permitting, including the use of innovative land use regulatory tools and sustainable development techniques on behalf of both the private and public sectors, and the successful redevelopment of infill properties under federal, state and local regulatory regimes. He has been a Washington Super:Lawyer every year since 2003. He is also an Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington and a past Fellow of the College's Runstad Center for Real Estate Studies. He has served as Chair of APA's Planning & Law Division and Chair of the Environmental & Land Use Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association.
Education: J.D., University of Oregon. Master of Regional Planning, Cornell University. B.A., cum laude, with Distinction in History, University of Washington.
Key Publications: Chuck has contributed articles on urban development topics to several publications including The Atlantic Cities, The Atlantic, Grist, The Huffington Post, seattlepi.com, and Crosscut.com. He blogs regularly at myurbanist.com. His new book, Urbanism Without Effort--Reconnecting WIth First Principles of the City (Island Press, 2013) will be available from online vendors by April, 2013.
Past Assignments: Chuck is a frequent speaker locally and nationally, and recently presented on land use law and urbanism issues in Portugal and Canada. He has co-authored major research reports on transit-oriented development and brownfield regulatory reform through his affiliation with the University of Washington.
Roger J. O'Brien, AICP
Planning Consultant
O'Brien & Marmo Associates
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Bio: Dr. O'Brien is the Managing Partner of O'Brien & Marmo Associates, a Connecticut based Planning Consulting Firm. From 2004 to 2012 he served as the Director of Planning for the City of Hartford. In this position he was the Secretary of both the Design Review Board and the Historic Preservation Commission as well as the Planning and Zoning Commission. He sucessfully implemented a new compreshensive Historic Preservation Ordinance. He was also involved in the effort to develop the former COLT industrial site as a multiuse site that will include a National Historic Park. Dr. O'Brien has served on the Planning Faculties of both Southern Connecticut State University and Central Connecticut State University
Education: PhD, Public Administration, New York University, concentration in urban economic growth, Master in Urban Planning, Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, BA, Economics Fordham College
Key Publications: One City One Plan, Comprehensive Plan of Conservation and Development, City of Hartford, 2010
Other Publications: More than 200 planning studies over a long career
Past Assignments: Offered course in Green and Sustainable Cities, Central Connecticut State University 2010, Offered Course in Urban Design, Offered Course in Housing and Urban Policy, Southern Connecticut State University 2011
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