Architecture & Urban Planning

Leadership Grant Grant

Reducing the Impacts of Rural Sprawl on Wildlife Habitat, Year 1

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) will hire Sarah Reed as Project Leader for the Western Private Lands and Connectivity Conservation Project, building on work Sarah has already done with WCS through her David H. Smith Conservation...
May 27, 2011
Fellow Story

Brownfields: Revitalizing Communities

Switzer Fellow Carol Tucker, who manages the New England Brownfields Program for the US Environmental Protection Agency, explains how brownfields offer major opportunities for community development and revitalization.
November 15, 2010
Fellow Story

Building Energy Efficiency into Multi-Family Dwellings

About one-third of the homes in California are multi-family units and saving energy in these units has significant potential. Beckie Menten, Switzer Fellow and Research Fellow with the California Public Utilities Commission, offers a perspective on this issue.
September 23, 2010
Fellow Story

Creating Sustainable Communities

In 1997, Oakland, California, began to face the challenge of sustainability on a community level. Today, Oakland enjoys cleaner air, improved recycling, more bike lanes – and a consistent ranking in the Top Ten U.S. Green Cities. Garrett Fitzgerald, Oakland’s Sustainability Coordinator and a Switzer Fellow, shares key steps.
July 2, 2010
Fellow

John Urgo

2010 Fellow
John is a Master of City Planning candidate at UC Berkeley with a concentration in transportation planning. His studies focus on land use, transportation, and pricing policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from automobile use...
Fellow

Erin Hafkenschiel

2010 Fellow
Erin Hafkenschiel is the President of ThinkTennessee, a nonpartisan, statewide, results-oriented think tank. Previously, she was the Executive Director for Mobility and Transportation at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Sustainability for Nashville Mayors David Briley and Megan Barry. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Civil Infrastructure Systems at Vanderbilt University.
Fellow

Stephanie Stern

2010 Fellow
Stephanie completed her master’s degree at MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, with a specialization in Environmental Policy and Planning. She is focusing on city energy and sustainability policies and an integrated approach to...
Leadership Grant Grant

Headlands Institute, Sustainable Campus Project, Year 3

This grant provides a third and final year of support for Steve Rasmussen Cancian’s role in the Yosemite National Institutes/Headlands Institute Sustainable Campus Project as landscape designer and to serve as Coordinator of the...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Brownfields Redevelopment and Green Design in Dorchester, Year 1

Beverly Craig was hired as a consultant to help this organization move forward on at least two brownfields redevelopment sites in Dorchester. Beverly has extensive experience in urban brownfield redevelopment from her six years as...
March 29, 2010
Leadership Grant Grant

Brownfields Redevelopment and Green Design in Dorchester, Year 2

To provide a second year of funding to allow Beverly Craig to build on the work she accomplished during the first year of her Leadership Grant collaboration with Dorchester Bay EDC, working on brownfields redevelopment and green building...
March 29, 2010