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1. PETER CALTHORPE
• Peter Calthorpe (born 1949) is a San Francisco-
based architect, urban designer and urban
planner. He is a founding member of the Congress
for New Urbanism a Chicago-based advocacy
group formed in 1992 that promotes sustainable
building practices.

2. BIOGRAPHY
• Calthorpe was born in London and raised in Palo Alto. He attended
the Yale School of Architecture.
• He has taught at U.C. Berkeley, the University of Washington,
the University of Oregon, and the University of North Carolina.
• In 1989, he proposed the concept of "Pedestrian Pocket" an up to 110
acres (45 ha) pedestrian friendly, transit linked, mixed-use urban area
with a park at its centre. The Pedestrian Pocket mixes low-rise high-
density housing, commercial and retail uses. The concept had a
number of similarities with Ebenezer Howard's Garden City and
aimed to be an alternative to the then usual low-density residential
suburban developments.

3. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Cities and suburbs across the globe are facing a crisis of livability, traffic and cost; a crisis with profound
economic, environmental, and social dimensions. The solutions involve new land use patterns that
connect now isolated enclaves into mixed-use communities. Calthorpe Associates is a leader in the
field of planning for such mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented places -- places that are human scale,
affordable, and diverse; that re-integrate home and work; transit and auto use; civic identity and
commercial activity; human needs and ecological limits. Newsweek Magazine claims our concepts
for cities, towns, and suburbs have defined a new direction in planning and growth for the nation.
Grounded in a history of pioneering work in Sustainable Communities, New Urbanism,
Transit Oriented Development, and Regional Planning, Calthorpe Associates is now internationally
recognized as a leader in urban design, community planning, and regional growth strategies.
Since 1983 the firm has assisted private and public clients in shaping progressive forms of growth
and redevelopment – forms that help reestablish a sense of place, scale, history and environmental
balance
within the built environment.

4. Writings
• Calthorpe, Peter and Sim Van der
Ryn (1986). Sustainable Communities: A
New Design Synthesis for Cities, Suburbs
and Towns.
• Pedestrian Pocket Book, 1989
• The Next American Metropolis: Ecology,
Community, and the American Dream
• Calthorpe, Peter and Fulton,
William: The Regional City
• Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

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