Allen Folks

Biography: Allen K. Folks Urban Designer Allen Folks is a registered landscape architect and urban designer with experience in urban revitalization and community planning assignments. In 40 years of practice, he has been responsible for a variety of assignments including the preparation of plans for new towns and existing communities, transit oriented development areas, reuse of military bases, design of corporate and civic campuses and public open space planning. Allen usually directs teams of engineers, environmental scientists and economists to solve urban problems that have a creative vision and are economically feasible. Allen is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) of which he has served as the District Council Chair for Sacramento and has been a member on several national product councils including most recently, the Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Council. He is a graduate of Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. Allen is now mostly retired, but does consult on select projects. Prior to retiring, Allen was a Principal and Vice President for EDAW and its successor firm, AECOM, working from the San Francisco, Sacramento, and Singapore offices, and at Ascent in Sacramento. Allen has participated in nineteen Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Panels to assist in solving downtown and neighborhood redevelopment issues. Three of those Panels were in Asia in the countries of China and the Philippines.