Peter Calthorpe

Biographie : A pioneer of innovative urban revitalization, community planning, and regional design, Peter Calthorpe’s long and honored career spans decades and numerous publications. Calthorpe is known for developing the concept of transit-oriented development—an idea that is now the foundation of many regional policies and city plans around the world. In 2001, he published The Regional City: Planning for the End of Sprawl with Bill Fulton, explaining how regional-scale planning can integrate urban revitalization and suburban renewal into a coherent vision of metropolitan growth. His seminal plans for U.S. cities—Portland, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, and post-hurricane southern Louisiana—demonstrated a more interactive approach to environmental design at an urban scale. For his contribution in redefining the models of urban and suburban growth, Calthorpe was honored with Urban Land Institute's prestigious Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development Award in 2006. His latest book, Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, documents his work relating patterns of development to energy and carbon emissions, along with other environmental, social, and economic impacts. Calthorpe Associates, the award-winning sustainable urban design and planning firm founded by Peter Calthorpe—joined HDR in 2019 and is now known as HDR | Calthorpe. Full bio: https://www.hdrinc.com/person/peter-calthorpe