Walker Wells

Biographie: Mr. Wells is a Principal at Raimi+Associates, a mission-driven urban planning and sustainability consultancy. He works with cities, neighborhoods, and community development organizations across the country to further green building and sustainable development practices through technical guidance, stakeholder facilitation, and the development of innovative policies and programs. Walker is a certified urban planner, a LEED Accredited Professional and a lecturer in Green Urbanism at the Claremont Colleges and the UCLA Urban Planning Program. Mr. Wells is a 2014 Fulbright Fellow with the Royal Institute of Technology Urban Planning Program in Stockholm, a 2012 Pritzker Fellow at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and co-author of the Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing (Island Press, 2020) and a contributor to Growing Compact – Urban Form, Density, and Sustainability (Routledge, 2017). Mr. Wells holds Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Master’s of City and Regional from the California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo. He also studied at Lund University and the Lund PolyTechnic Institute School of Architecture in Sweden. Prior to joining Raimi Associates, Mr. Wells was the Executive Director at the non-profit Global Green and oversaw the organization’s green urbanism projects. He has also held positions as Senior Urban Designer with Gruen Associates in Los Angeles, Planner with the City of Santa Monica, and an Urban Planner for the City of Malmo, Sweden.