Reid Ewing
Professor
The University of Utah
College of Architecture + Planning
375 South 1530 East Room 235
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112
Phone (801) 581-8255
E-mail: REwing6269@aol.com

Dr. Ewing's expertise in transportation and environmental issues adds an important dimension to the city and metropolitan planning program at the U, as the Wasatch Front is expected to double in size by 2050, according to Chris Nelson, an expert in metropolitan growth who also joined the Utah faculty last summer.

Ewing is co-author of Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, written in collaboration with Keith Bartholomew, assistant professor at the U who researches the effects of transportation on the environment.

Most recently a research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, Ewing hopes to establish a center for transportation research while at the University of Utah.

Ewing has completed a number of highly influential transportation studies that examine issues critical to successful growth: transportation and the environment, transit-oriented developments, emergency evacuation, pedestrian and transit-friendly design, urban development and greenhouse gases, and the relationship between sprawl and obesity. His 2003 article on sprawl and obesity is the most widely reported planning study ever.

Ewing is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, a columnist for Planning magazine, and a Fellow of the Urban Land Institute, an association of the nation's most successful land developers. His academic credentials include a Ph.D. in urban planning and transportation systems from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master of city planning from Harvard University, a master of science in engineering and applied physics, Harvard University, and a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from Purdue University.