INDUSTRIAL URBANISM - Key Persons

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• General Partner of Forsgate Industrial Partners

Alex Klatskin is a General Partner of Forsgate Industrial Partners, a private industrial real estate development and investment firm based in Teterboro, New Jersey. Forsgate has built and owns ten million square feet of industrial property. Before joining Forsgate in 1992, he was with the New York City architectural firm of Kohn, Pedersen, Fox and Associates, working on commercial projects in London and New York. Alex was the 2011 National Chairman of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association. At NAIOP, he is also a former President of the New Jersey Chapter. In addition, Alex is a member of the Washington, DC based Real Estate Roundtable and a member of the Board of Regents of the American Architectural Foundation. He is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects, a member of the Architectural League of New York and the American Real Estate Society. He has been a visiting architectural critic at the Universities of Michigan and Illinois, Florida A&M, Catholic University and the Illinois Institute of Technology and has been a visiting lecturer in the real estate programs of Cornell and Johns Hopkins Universities and the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois and a Master of Architecture from the University of Maryland. He is a Registered Architect in New York, New Jersey and the District of Columbia, and a licensed Professional Planner in New Jersey.

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• Associate Professor With Tenure at MIT
• Director Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT

Alexander D'Hooghe is associate professor with tenure at MIT and founding partner of the ‘Organization for Permanent Modernity', a professional firm and think tank for urbanism and architecture, with locations in Boston and Brussels. Currently, he also directs the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT, focused on large-scale contemporary design problems. He has published internationally, notably with ‘the Liberal Monument' (Princeton, Fall 2010) and with recent papers in relevant journals in Germany, Israel, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, the USA, etc. His urban designs and analyses have included sites in New York City, Shenzhen, Brussels, Ostend, The Hague, Reykjavik, South-Korea, parts of Russia, etc. With the design office, he develops durable architectures: simple artifacts able to handle complex demands and requirements. Currently ongoing projects include a masterplan for the slaughterhouse district in Brussels (including a 25,000 sq.m. market building), development prototypes for middle ring suburbs in East Coast cities (for NAIOP), a series of public facilities and town centers around Brussels, a plan for the protection and expansion of the coastline between France and the Netherlands (68km, 2009), as well as a competition-winning entry for a large landfill in South-Korea (401 sq.km, 2008). D'Hooghe obtained his Ph.D. at the Berlage Institute in 2007 with T.U. Delft, after achieving a Masters in Urban Design at the Harvard GSD in 2001, and a master in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Leuven in 1996. He worked with among others Rem Koolhaas and Marcel Smets.

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• Professor of Economic Geography and Regional Planning, DUSP, MIT

Dr. Glasmeier holds a professional masters and PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. From 2009 to 2013, she was the Department Head of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She simultaneously serves as a professor of economic geography and regional planning. She has two books on policies to develop and expand technology industries. Her book, Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the World Watch industry, 1750-2000, provides considerable perspective on how different modes of industrial organization and varieties of capitalism yield varying levels of competitive success of national systems of industrialization. In addition, she has written two books focused on the special development problems of rural areas and has worked closely with academics and policy makers around the country to fashion programs designed to assist in formulating sustainable development strategies for rural areas. Her most recent book, published fall 2005 by Routledge Press, An Atlas of Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960-2003 examines the experience of people and places in poverty since the 1960s, looks across the last four decades at poverty in America and recounts the history of poverty policy since the 1940s. She is finishing up a project on the spatial location of wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan. With a Freedom Of Information request, Glasmeier acquired data that allows her to map the location of health care services and the soldiers home of record. She hopes this research will help draw attention to the particular difficulties of soldiers seeking health care while living in rural areas.

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• Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning, DUSP, MIT

Dennis Frenchman is the Leventhal Professor of Urban Design and Planning at MIT, where he is former director of the City Design and Development program and chair of the Masters in City Planning program. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Real Estate. He has taught and practiced extensively in Asia, Europe, and South America and served as External Advisor on urban livability to the President of the World Bank. He is also a registered architect, and founding principal of ICON architecture in Boston an international architecture and urban design firm. Dennis Frenchman's practice and research focuses on the transformation of cities. He is an expert on the application of digital technology to city design and has designed large-scale media oriented cities and industrial clusters including Seoul Digital Media City in Korea, the Digital Mile in Zaragoza, Spain, Media City: UK in Salford, England, Twofour54 in Abu Dhabi, and Ciudad Creativa Digital, Guadalajara, Mexico. He has a particular interest in the redevelopment of industrial sites and has prepared plans for the renewal of textile mill towns, canals, rail corridors, steels mills, coal and oil fields, shipyards and ports, including many of international cultural significance. Currently he is leading an MIT research effort to develop new models for clean energy urbanization in China, sponsored by the Energy Foundation. He is the author of articles and books on advanced urban design, including Technological Imagination and the Historic City (2008, Ligouri, with William J. Mitchell, et al). His work has been widely recognized including awards from Progressive Architecture, the American Institute of Architects, and three citations from the American Planning Association for the most outstanding projects in the United States.

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• Executive Director, MIT Industrial Performance Center

Elisabeth Reynolds works on issues related to systems of innovation, regional economic development and industrial competitiveness. She has focused in particular on the theory and practice of cluster development and regional innovation systems and advises several organizations in this area. Her current research focuses on the pathways that U.S. entrepreneurial firms take in scaling production-related technologies, as well as advanced manufacturing, including the globalization of the biomanufacturing industry. She is a member of the Massachusetts Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative Executive Committee.

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• Head
• Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor and Department Head, DUSP MIT

Professor Eran Ben-Joseph is the head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research and teaching areas include urban and physical design, standards and regulations, sustainable site planning technologies and urban retrofitting. He published numerous articles, monographs, book chapters and authored and co-authored the books: Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities, Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America, The Code of the City, RENEW Town and ReThinking a Lot. Eran worked as a city planner, urban designer and landscape architect in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the United States on projects including new towns and residential developments, streetscapes, stream restorations, and parks and recreation planning. He has led national and international multi-disciplinary projects in Singapore, Barcelona, Santiago, Tokyo and Washington DC among other places. Eran is the recipient of the Wade Award for his work on Representation of Places - a collaboration project with MIT Media Lab and the Milka Bliznakov Prize for his historical work on Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture. He holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley and Chiba National University of Japan.

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• Executive Director of TACC
• Executive Director, the American City Coalition

As the executive director of TACC, Neil skillfully guides the organization's team of professionals and technical service consultants. His leadership is built on extensive domestic and international experience directing initiatives to develop social change strategies, as well as performance management and evaluation systems for community development, education, economic development, and housing . This dynamic, real-world experience informs his teaching at Boston College, where his popular course analyzes the factors critical to the successful transformation of urban neighborhoods. Neil formerly served as country director for CHF International (now Global Communities) in Azerbaijan on a multi-year, community development program funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to his work in Azerbaijan, Neil worked in Mongolia where he co-directed operations of a multi-city, United States government-funded, private sector development program. He also oversaw all aspects of a reconstruction and refugee resettlement program in post-war Kosovo. Neil holds an undergraduate degree from Boston College; he received an M.B.A. from Boston University and an M.P.A. from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He has served as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps and was awarded a Roy and Lila Ash Fellowship for Innovations in Democracy and Governance from the Kennedy School.

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• Head
• Senior Lecturer and the Head

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• Associate Professor at the Northeastern University School of Architecture
• Founding Principal of Utile

Tim Love is the founding principal of Utile. Love's primary focus is the relationship between individual works of architecture and the larger city - both through his work as an architect and urban designer. In the January 2011 issue of Architectural Record, George Baird cited him as an important thinker in architecture today: "Another person to watch is Tim Love, whose firm, Utile, Inc., Architecture + Planning, in Boston, reflects his theoretical and pragmatic interest in the typologies of small-scale housing and the way zoning and building codes affect design." Tim is highly regarded for his strategic and collaborative approach to complicated urban projects - including charting and leading the public participation process and helping to bring together diverse public agencies and stakeholders around a single shared vision. Recent and on-going assignments include a redesign of City Hall Plaza for the Greening America's Capitals initiative of the U.S. EPA-HUD-DOT Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a planning study for the Mill River District in New Haven, planning for the Newmarket district in Boston for The American Cities Coalition, and the Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion for the National Park Service and the Boston Harbor Island Alliance. In addition Utile is the lead design consultant and urban planner for the Massachusetts Port Authority's development parcels. Tim's on-call role includes the review of projects at several stages of the design process and early-phase development planning for the Authority's parcels. In addition, Tim helped implement the Authority's sustainable design program, and serves as a professional advisor for development team selection processes. Prior to founding Utile, Tim was a Vice President at Machado & Silvetti Associates where he was the project director of the Getty Villa in Malibu, the Dewey Square Urban Design and MBTA Headhouses in Boston, the South Boston Maritime Park in South Boston, and the Honan-Allston Branch Library in Allston, Massachusetts, the winner of a 2003 National AIA Design Award. These projects, along with the recently completed Boston Harbor Islands Pavilion, demonstrate Tim's commitment to the design and implementation of high-quality works of public architecture. Tim is also a tenured Associate Professor at the Northeastern University School of Architecture where he teaches housing, urban design and architectural theory. He has also taught at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the Yale School of Architecture, and the University of Toronto. He received his undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.