Reid Ewing is a
Research Professor at the National Center for Smart Growth,
associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning
Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and
Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Formerly, he was
Director of the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers
University, and earlier in his career, he served two terms
in the Arizona legislature and worked on urban policy issues
at the Congressional Budget Office. He holds master degrees
in Engineering and City Planning from Harvard University and
a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems and Urban Planning from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has authored
books for the major planning and development organizations:
Developing Successful New Communities for the Urban
Land Institute; Best Development Practices and
Transportation and Land Use Innovations for the American
Planning Association; and Traffic Calming
State-of-the-Practice for the Institute of
Transportation Engineers. The two books for the American
Planning Association made him APA's top selling author for
many years. His study of sprawl and obesity received more
national media coverage than any planning study before or
since, and at one time, was the most widely cited academic
paper in the Social Sciences, according to Essential
Science Indicators.
His most recent
book, written for EPA and published by the Urban Land
Institute, is Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban
Development and Climate Change. Also due out this year,
and published by the American Planning Association, is
National Traffic Calming Manual. His prior work on
smart growth development includes the U.S. Green Building
Council's LEED-Neighborhood Development guidelines, the
Institute of Transportation Engineers' Recommended
Practice for Context-Sensitive Thoroughfares, the
National Wildlife Federation's Endangered by Sprawl,
and dozens of consulting projects around the United States.
(301) 405-8751
rewing1@umd.edu
