Ronald Ratner currently holds the position of Executive Vice President and Director of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. In addition, he is President of Forest City Residential Group which comprises all of the multifamily residential ownership, development, management and financial activities of Forest City Enterprises….
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Chairman and CEO, The St. Joe Company, Jacksonville, Florida (since 1997) Rummell began his real estate career with the Sea Pines Company in 1971, where he was involved in the development of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, and Amelia Island, Florida. In 1977, he moved to the Arvida Corporation, where he served as general manager of the Sawgrass development in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida….
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As a principal of EDAW, Joe Brown has directed numerous projects throughout the United States and abroad. EDAW was founded in 1939, and is now a 750-person planning and design firm with 23 offices worldwide….
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An architect since 1975, Robert Campbell has worked for nonprofit institutions and for cities. As architecture critic for the Boston Globe, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1996. In a review of his book, Cityscapes of Boston: An American City Through Time, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter wrote “Campbell is esteemed by many to be the leading architectural critic in America today.” …
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Gene Kohn currently serves as chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), the architecture firm he co-founded in 1976 with William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox. KPF is a 400-person international practice that provides full architecture, master planning, space planning, programming, building analysis, and interior design services, with studios in New York, London, and a growing presence in Shanghai….
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Chris Leinberger is a land use strategist, developer, and author, based in Washington, D.C. He is a Professor of Practice and the Director of a new Graduate Real Estate Development Program at the University of Michigan. …
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Bonnie Fisher is a Principal of ROMA Design Group and Director of Landscape Design. Her project experience ranges in scale from planning for major open space preservation and restoration projects and the planning of new urban districts to the specific design and implementation of urban open space, plazas, and streetscapes….
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Jeremy Newsum is chief executive and a trustee of the Grosvenor Estate, responsible for international strategy and development of the business….
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Paul Schell was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1937, and graduated from Roosevelt High School in Des Moines. He attended Wartburg College and graduated from the University of Iowa and Columbia Law School. He practiced law in New York City and Seattle, Washington, where he moved with his wife, Pam, in 1967….
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Witold Rybczynski, of Polish parentage, was born in Edinburgh, raised in London, and attended Jesuit schools in England and Canada. He studied architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he also taught; he is currently the Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania….
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