 Tony Arnold
Boehl Chair in Property & Land Use
Brandeis School of Law,
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Phone: 502-852-6388
tony.arnold@louisville.edu |
 Stephen Guberman
School of Education,
Rm 215
University of Colorado,
249 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0249
Phone: 303-492-8391
steven.guberman@colorado.edu
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 Meredith Banasiak
Department of Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
University of Colorado
314 UCB
Boulder, CO, 80309-0314
Phone: 303-492-7144
banasiak@colorado.edu
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 Kathleen Man
Film Department
Vassar College
Phone:: 845.437.5588
kaman@vassar.edu |
Meghan Cope
Department of Geography
200 Old Mill
University of Vermont
Burlington VT 05401 USA
Phone: 802-656-8844
meghan.cope@uvm.edu
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 Bella Mody
James de Castro Professor in Global Media Studies
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0478
Phone: 303-492-1912
Bella.Mody@colorado.edu
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 Samuel Dennis
Department of Landscape Architecture
University of Wisconsin,
1 Agricultural Hall
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-263-7699
sfdennisjr@wisc.edu |
 Julee Herdt
Department of Architecture
College of Architecture and Planning
1060 18th St.
University of Colorado, 314 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0314
Phone: 303-492-2536
julee.herdt@colorado.edu
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 David Driskell
Department of City and Regional Planning
323 W Sibley
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-5385
david.driskell@cornell.edu |
 Brian Muller
Department of Planning and Design
College of Architecture and Planning
1060 18th St., Rm. 150
University of Colorado, 314 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0314
Phone: 303-492-8781
Brian.Muller@cudenver.edu
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 Mark Francis
Landscape Architecture
Dept. of Environmental Design
142 Walker Hall
University of California, Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-3907
mofrancis@ucdavis.edu |
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Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold is the Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use at the University of Louisville, where he teaches in both law and urban planning and chairs the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility. Professor Arnold is a nationally recognized expert on the environmental regulation of land use. His work addresses environmental justice and land use, land use regulation to sustain healthy watersheds, environmentally responsible concepts of private property, and the structure of the land use regulatory system. His current interdisciplinary work is on discretionary land use decision making and how it can be improved as a mediating force between people and places. These improvements include healthier natural environments (“vital places”) for children and youth, and the engagement of children and youth in deliberative, equitable, and participatory land use processes, as Arnold’s recent grant-funded project with low-income and minority youth in West Louisville demonstrates. He has served in various planning and legal roles, including as a city attorney and as a planning commission chairman, and in community service roles on the environment and social justice. He taught at Stanford University, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Wyoming, and Chapman University. In 2008-09, he is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati School of Planning.
Meredith Banasiak is interested in exploring the dialogue between human factors and the designed environment through the lens of cognitive science. During her tenure as a Research Associate with the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA), Meredith engaged in cognitive neuroscience research at the Krasnow Institute of Advanced Studies, George Mason University where she used behavioral paradigms and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate environmental context effects on cognitive processes across the life cycle. Currently, Meredith is researching "Design for Active Outdoor Play and Nature Exploration" with the Children's Youth and Environments (CYE) research center.
Meghan Cope is an urban social geographer, interested in the ways that social, economic, political, and environmental processes influence cities and communities, as well as the ways that people's everyday lives create meaningful spaces and places within, or even against, the larger-scale processes operating on them. She focuses on social/spatial processes of marginalization and disempowerment, for example, through gender, race/ethnicity, class, youth, etc. and is especially motivated by issues such as employment, households and neighborhoods, welfare, public space, poverty, discrimination, and identity. She is a qualitative researcher who uses ethnography and other methods to learn about the geographic meanings and processes that matter to marginalized groups. Over the past 5 years she has developed an associated interest in critical perspectives on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and explored methods of combining qualitative research with GIS.
Samuel Dennis is interested in the intersection of urban open space and issues of social justice. His work examines the ways public open space can support the positive development of children, youth and families—particularly where planning and design processes include the meaningful participation of marginalized social groups. For the past two years, his Harrisburg Studio hasworked with at-risk youth on several participatory design/build projects in the South Allison Hill community in Harrisburg, PA. He also continues to be involved with the American Indian Housing Initiative’s partnership with the Northern Cheyenne (www.engr.psu.edu/greenbuild/intro.html). His community-based work is strongly influenced by the emerging idea of Public Scholarship, an approach to theory and practice that seeks a more profound University-Community partnership.
David Driskell is the UNESCO Chair for “Growing Up in Cities” in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. He is author of Creating Better Cities with Children and Youth (UNESCO/Earthscan, 2002) and numerous articles; teaches courses on community-based planning and action research; and has directed child and youth action research initiatives in Bangalore, New York, and Nairobi. In Nairobi, he is research advisor for the Growing Up in Nairobi project, a joint initiative of Cornell University, UN-HABITAT, UNESCO and several Nairobi youth organizations. His professional and scholarly work has received awards from the American Planning Association, the Environmental Design Research Association, and the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mark Francis is Professor and past Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Davis where he founded and directed the Center for Design Research.
His work is concerned with the theory and design of urban and community landscapes. Trained in landscape architecture and urban design at Harvard and Berkeley, he is also a Senior Design Consultant with the firm MIG/CoDesign in Berkeley and Davis California, where he has designed projects in the United States and abroad. At UC Davis he is a member of the Institute for Transportation Studies and the John Muir Institute for the Environment.
He is author of several books and more than 70 articles and book chapters translated into a dozen languages.
Mark has received national awards for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, the Local Government Commission, and the American Society for Landscape Architects.
His design work is concerned with public space including urban gardens, community open space, nearby nature, and urban places.
Stephen Guberman is associate professor of educational psychology. His research interests focus on social and cultural processes in children’s learning and development. Recent projects have studied (a) how preschool children learn and use mathematics in parent-child interactions, (b) how school-aged children with little formal education (in Recife, Brazil) learn and use mathematics in everyday activities, (c) ethnic differences in children’s mathematical activities and achievements, and (d) the emergence and solution of mathematical problems in children’s play of educational and board games. He is currently studying the nature of science learning in informal educational settings by analyzing conversations between adults and children in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and conversations among school children in a science discovery center.
Julee Herdt is a professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Colorado and
award-winning architect whose work focuses on biomass, petroleum-alternative building material research, commercialization and application, and renewable energy design and construction. Her environmental research and educational projects have been funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, the National Science Foundation, the University of Colorado, and the Department of Energy.
She is interested in expanding the notion of The Edible School Yard to The Edible School Building, using innovative green construction materials and methods.
Bella Mody specializes in the political economy of media in developing countries and in design research on public service applications of communication media. She coordinated the graduate program in international development communication at Stanford University as an assistant professor (1978-1983) and taught at San Francisco State University as an associate professor (1983-1985). She has consulted for UN agencies, national governments and nongovernmental organizations on media applications for agriculture, health and education in India, Malaysia, Singapore, Nepal, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Barbados, Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Kenya and South Africa. Her current focus is HIV-AIDS.