Owen Lang

Biografía: Owen Lang Urban Designer/Planner Owen Lang Consulting Petaluma, CA Owen Lang has over 35 years of significant site and urban design experience. Owen’s expertise include urban mixed use districts, downtown revitalization plans, urban waterfronts, community design plans, corporate/commercial facilities, transit oriented developments, and recreation/resort facilities. His broad range of experience involves working with multi-jurisdictional agencies, special interest groups, and community groups, forging a shared understanding and support for public and private improvements. His strong physical design sense and graphic skills allow him to communicate design concepts throughout the progressive phases of a project. Prior to private consultancy, Owen was a Principal of Sasaki Associates’ San Francisco office since 1983. His prior professional history includes planning and design of the built environment at nationally-renowned firms including POD, Inc., SWA Group, EDAW, Wallace McHarg Roberts and Todd, Sasaki Dawson DeMay & Associates, and Lawrence Halprin & Associates. A Bay Area native, Owen is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA) and received a Master in Landscape Architecture degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona. His award-winning project experience includes the Port of Los Angeles Wilmington Waterfront Development Master Plan; the Aerojet Properties Master Plan in Folsom; the North Embarcadero Alliance Visionary Plan in San Diego; the San Francisco Urban Waterfront Transportation Projects; the Presidio Trust Management Plan in San Francisco; the North Embarcadero Alliance Visionary Plan in San Diego; and the Sacramento/West Sacramento Riverfront Master Plan. Currently he is consulting to the Los Angeles Municipal Water District of Southern California and the Hawaii Community Development Authority in Honolulu. Owen served as a ULI Panel member for Sacramento’s Stockton Boulevard Neighborhood in the summer of 2009. His recent professional activities includes the discussion titled, "Civic Amenities and Economic Prosperity: Developing a Strategy to Expand Arts, Culture, and Recreation in the Sacramento Region" for the November 2008 Urban Land Institute and Partnership for Prosperity event. In April 2007, Owen was a panelist for a forum titled, “Urban Assets and Sectors: Outlook for Office, Industrial, Retail, Hotel & Housing” for IMN’s Second Annual Opportunity & Private Fund Forum on Urban Rejuvenation & Brownfields. (December 2010)