Associate Professor and Chair, Graduate Program in Community Planning

Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, 1997
Master of Urban Planning, City College of New York (Graduate Program in Urban Design), 1985
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, University of Florida, 1983

Academic Experience
Auburn University, School of Architecture, 1996-present
Ball State University, Department of Urban Planning, 1994-1996

Practical Experience
Community-Based Projects Program, Ball State University, 1994-1996
Planning Department, City of Seattle, 1989-1993
Department of City Planning (Manhattan Office), City of New York, 1986-1988
Eisenman/Robertson Architects + Design Development Resources, New York, NY, 1984-1986
Gulfsteam Land and Development, Plantation, Florida, 1983-1984

Professional and Academic Activities
Outstanding Media Coverage (nominee), Alabama Chapter of the American Planning Association, May 2001
Gertrude Williams Award for Historic Preservation (co-winners with the Anniston Star), City of Anniston, Alabama, May 2000

Partnership for a Livable Auburn Community Environment (PLACE), president and founding member, 2000-present
Historic Preservation Commission (Auburn, Alabama), charter member, 1999-2002
Greenways Task Force (Auburn, Alabama), appointed member, 1999-2001
Town Creek Park Design Workshop (Auburn, Alabama), invited participant and team leader, July 2000
League of Women Voters (Auburn Chapter), invited speaker (The Perils of Smart Growth: Losing the Civic Identity), October 2000
League of Women Voters (Auburn Chapter), invited speaker (Greenways for Auburn), February 1999
Dadeville Kiwanis Club (Dadeville, Alabama), invited speaker (Maintaining a Healthy Downtown for Dadeville), October 1997

Smart Growth Conference, invited speaker (Preserving the Founding Vision: Smart Growth for Anniston), June 2000; meeting co-sponsored by East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission and Jacksonville State University
Alabama Planning Institute, invited speaker (The Takings Movement and What It Means for Your Community), March 1999; continuing education workshop
West Alabama Preservation Workshop (Newbern, Alabama), July 1998; invited speaker (Historic Preservation and the Rural Studio)
Alabama Chapter of American Planning Association, co-hosted annual conference, March 1998
Technical Advisory Committee, Lee-Russell Council of Governments (LRCOG), 1997-2001

Outreach Projects (funded)
Black Freedmen’s Living Historical Farm for Children (Furman, Alabama), 2000-2003; project funded by Auburn University Outreach grant ($15,000) to design and construct environmental education center
Sustainable Eufaula: Strategic Master Plan (Eufaula, Alabama), 2001-02; project funded by municipal grant ($20,000) which involved noteworthy partnership among several Auburn University entities
Clanton Civic Center (Clanton, Alabama), Summer 2001; design feasibility study funded by municipal grant ($10,000) for proposed civic center
Boy Scout Regional Headquarters (Birmingham, Alabama), Spring 2001; design feasibility study funded by advisory group ($1,500) for proposed headquarters site
Dixie Neighborhood Design Workshop (Dothan, Alabama), May 1999; downtown revitalization study funded ($1,000) by citizen support organization

Outreach Studios
Town Creek Watershed Civic Ecology Studio (Auburn, Alabama), Spring 2001; co-instructor for joint planning and landscape architecture studio closely undertaken with citizen partners
Parkerson Mill Creek Watershed Ecological Planning Studio (Lee County, Alabama), Spring 2000; instructor
Dauphin Island Ecological Planning Remote Studio (Dauphin Island, Alabama), Spring 1999; co-instructor for joint planning and landscape architecture studio
Baldwin County Land Planning Studio (Foley, Alabama), Spring 1998; instructor
Auburn Greenways Studio (Auburn, Alabama), Fall 1997; co-instructor for joint planning and landscape architecture studio
Dadeville Downtown Revitalization Studio (Dadeville, Alabama), Summer 1997; instructor for joint planning and landscape architecture studio undertaken with citizen participation

Exhibitions
An Ecological Design Approach to Conservation and Development, Dudley Gallery, August-September 2001; public exhibit of student work for Town Creek Watershed Civic Ecology studio (director)
Sighting the Site: First Year Design Process, Dudley Gallery, September 2000; public exhibit of student work for Black Freedmen’s Living Historical Farm for Children project (co-director)

Scholarly Activities
An Architecture of Community: The Social Promise of Sunnyside Gardens, abstract submitted for paper presentation at the annual conference of the Southeast Chapter of the Society for Architectural Historians (September 2006)
An Ecology of Planning: Managing Change and Sustaining Place in Sunnyside Gardens, accepted for paper presentation at the biennial conference of the Society for American City and Regional Planning History (October 2005)
The Human Ecology of Sunnyside Gardens: Investigating a Neighborhood Ecosystem, accepted for presentation at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) national conference, October 2004
Housing War Workers: A Call to Arms and a Call to Duty, published in Conference Proceedings of Meeting at the Edge: Curriculum and Learning, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) 2001 national conference, August 2002 (co-author)
The Realization of Promise in Community Design: Housing War Workers in America, accepted for presentation at the Ninth Biennial Conference on American Planning History, November 2001
Community Planning During Wartime: the United States Housing Corporation, presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) national conference, November 2000
Legacy of the Mill Town: Blue Mountain Saga Stirs Global Questions, published in the Anniston Star, October 2000 (co-author)
History in the Balance: Original Vision of the Model City is Worth Preserving in the New Millennium, published in the Anniston Star, December 1999 (co-author)
The Significant and the Profane: the Good and the Not-So-Good of Anniston’s Urban Fabric, published in the Anniston Star, December 1999 (co-author)
Practical Idealism: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and the Modern American City Planning Movement, UMI Press: Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997
The Thoughts of the Younger Olmsted on a City Planning Profession, presented at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) national conference, November 1997
To Be or Not To Be (A Profession), presented at the Seventh National Conference on American Planning History, October 1997
The Olmsteds and the Professionalization of Planning, presented at the Sixth National Conference on American Planning History, October 1995
Planning and Professionalism: Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and the Early Development of the American Planning Profession, published in ReCAP Spring/1995: 23-25
Defining the Art and Science of Planning: The Pioneering Role of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in the Modern American City Planning Movement and the Early Development of the Planning Profession, presented at the Fifth National Conference on American Planning History, October 1993

From Garden City to Green City: The Legacy of Ebenezer Howard, reviewed for the Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), Autumn 2003
Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning, reveiwed for the Journal of Planning Education and Research (JPER), Fall 2003
A Battle of the Giants: Politics, Planning and Creativity—Frank Lloyd Wright Meets John W. McCormick, reviewed for the Journal of Planning History, September 2002

The Human Ecology of Sunnyside Gardens: Investigating a Neighborhood Ecosystem, funding award from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction ($3,000) for research work (principal investigator), May 2004
Housing War Workers, funding award from the College of Architecture, Design and Construction ($4,000) for research work (co-principal investigator), June 2001
Cahaba River Watershed Study (Alabama), funding award (gift) from the Linn-Henley Charitable Trust ($50,000) for research/outreach work (co-principal investigator), 1998-2001

Academic Service
AU Graduate Council, 2003-2006
AU Environmental Institute, Administrative Board, 2002-present
University Senate (School of Architecture senator), 2002-2005
AU Environmental institute, Water Resources Research Council, 2001-present
AU Master Plan Committee, 2001-2003
AU Campus Planning Committee, 1998-2001
AU Parking Improvements Committee, 1996-1998

CADC Semester Transition Task Force, 1997-1999
CADC Priorities and Goals Committee, 1996-1998
CADC Strategic Plan Committee, 1996-1998
CADC Faculty Budget Committee, 1996-1998

SofA Graduate Program Officer, 1997-2003 + 2006-present
SofA Chair, Landscape Architecture History/Ecology Search Committee, 2003-2004
SofA Community Planning Search Committee, 2002-2003
SofA Urban Design Search Committee, 2001-2002
SofA Landscape Architecture Curriculum Committee, 1998-2002
SofA Landscape Architecture Search Committee, 2001-2002
SofA Curriculum Committee, 1997-2001
SofA Information Technology Task Force, 1996-1997

MCP Chair, 1997-2003 + 2006-present

Professional Registration
Landscape Architecture: State of Florida, 1983 (currently inactive)