Basis of Design Book 2 - City of St. Petersburg

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The Transvaal House was declared a National Monument by the National Monuments Council of South Africa in
1997. In 2010 The Tampa Museum of Art won both AIA San Francisco and AIA Tampa Bay Awards. Publications
include both local and international magazines, and the paintings, drawings and models exhibited in numerous
galleries and museums.
James Moore, Ph.D., AIA, AICP, LEED AP, Tampa, FL
Senior Vice President and the national Community Planning & Urban Design Principal for HDR, a full-service
architecture, engineering, planning and consulting company. A licensed architect, certified planner and LEED
Accredited Professional, he received his Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and also holds
graduate degrees from MIT, including an MS in Real Estate Development. Prior to joining HDR, he was an
associate professor in the School of Architecture & Community Design at the University of South Florida, and
served as Interim Dean of the School. He also spent five years as the Director of the Florida Center for
Community Design & Research. He has led projects throughout North America, helping clients achieve
integrated solutions to complex planning and urban design challenges, with a particular focus on urban
redevelopment. He is part of HDR’s national sustainability leadership team, and he writes and lectures
extensively on the planning and design of cities.
Susan S. Fainstein, Ph.D., Boston, MA
Professor Fainstein received her A.B. from Harvard University, her M.A. from Boston University, and her Ph.D. in
political science from MIT. She joined the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2006 as a
professor of urban planning. Her teaching and research have focused on comparative urban public policy,
planning theory, urban political economy, public participation, and urban redevelopment. Her book The Just City
was published last summer by Cornell University Press. Among her published works are The City Builders:
Property, Politics, and Planning in London and New York; Restructuring the City; and Urban Political Movements.
She has co-edited volumes on urban tourism (The Tourist City and Cities and Visitors), planning theory
(Readings in Planning Theory), urban theory (Readings in Urban Theory), and gender (Gender and Planning).
She received the Distinguished Educator Award of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, which
recognizes lifetime career achievement, and has been a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center for
Scholars at Bellagio. Professor Fainstein has taught in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation at Columbia University and at Rutgers University and been a visiting professor in a number of
universities in the United States and abroad, including most recently at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
of the National University of Singapore. She led or participated in studies of the Minneapolis Neighborhood
Revitalization Program, the rebuilding of Ground Zero, and the relationship between competitiveness, cohesion,
and governance in cities in the United Kingdom.