Mr. Hind was born in Bermuda and became subconsciously aware of the natural environment by living in a house that collected its own water for drinking and washing.  Consequently, two minute showers and the ability to judge rainfall by its ability to be “caught” not measured was the norm.  Sustainability is not a trend but a way of living.  Peter is a practicing architect and an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, College of Architecture with a focus on design and sustainability.

After architecture school and experience with both large and small firms, Peter and two other partners founded studio951.  The 10 person office is an environment that allows for collaboration, discussion, critical thinking and sustainable action.  Peter has worked with the AIA COTE and as participated in the Culver City S/DAT in 2007.   

Past professional experience includes exhibit design, civic buildings, museums, master planning, single-family residences, and research facilities.  His teaching experience has lead to published papers on design education specifically dealing with the relationship of the creative process, sustainability and their role in practice.  Peter’s interest is in meaningful and collaborative design solutions that address the relationship between buildings and the environment.

Wayne Feiden, AICP, is the Director of Planning and Development for the City of Northampton.    Wayne has helped oversee Northampton’s smart growth efforts for many years, with a focus on sustainable land use, transportation and public/private partnerships.  Northampton received the highest Commonwealth Capital score, the state’s measure of smart growth efforts, for the two years that program was in existence.

Wayne teaches graduate Planning Law and other classes at the University of Massachusetts and at Westfield State College.  Wayne co-authored Performance Guarantees for Government Permit-Granting Authorities (Planners Advisory Service Report, 2002) and Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems (Planners Advisory Service, 2006). He has had six other planning and environmental research publications.  Wayne’s work has received the Massachusetts APA Chapter’s Social Advocacy and Distinguished Leadership awards.  Wayne has served on AIA Design Assessment Teams to Longview, Washington, Northeast Michigan, New Orleans, Lake Havasu, Arizona, and Central, Louisiana.

Wayne holds a Masters of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina and a B.S. in Natural Resources from the University of Michigan.  He was an Eisenhower Fellow to Hungary in 1995.

Ms. Forsythe currently teaches at Cornell.  Trained in planning and architecture, she has focused her work on the social aspects of physical planning and urban development and focuses on land use and design related to transportation, as well as pedestrian planning, healthy cities, large-scale planned communities, and open space. 

Ann Forsyth has mixed academic work and practice. From 2002-2007 she was a professor in both architecture and landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota, directing the Metropolitan Design Center. She has also taught at Harvard Design School (1999-2002) and at the University of Massachusetts (1993-1999) where she was co-director of a small community design center, the Urban Places Project.

She has won over fifty awards, citations, and fellowships for individual and collaborative professional and research work. She has had visiting appointments at Columbia University, the University of Sydney, and Macquarie University. She has practiced in the private sector in both the United States and Australia and is a certified practicing planner in the Australian Planning Institute.

Mr. Jacobi is former Deputy Director of Port of Corpus Christi, and understands waterfront development and port use. He began his career in the maritime industry following his graduation from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1962, including two years in the United States Navy aboard a destroyer escort in the Pacific.  After his tour in the Navy, Mr. Jacobi attended the University of Connecticut at Storrs and obtained a Master of Science. He began work at Electric Boat shipyard and during his stay with the company was primarily involved in the firm’s efforts to develop a viable hovercraft.  In 1972, the University of Texas at Austin awarded Mr. Jacobi his MBA.  He spent five years at the Port of Charleston, South Carolina and participated in the feasibility work on the Wando Welch container terminal. When he left the Port of Charleston, he became Vice President at Palmetto Shipping and Stevedoring Company with operations in Charleston and Savannah.  His responsibilities included stevedoring and steamship agency accounts in both cities.  Mr. Jacobi accepted an opportunity in North Carolina as Director of Business Development for the North Carolina State Ports Authority. At the NCSPA, his responsibilities included business development at two ocean ports and two inland depots.  Six years later, he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas to assume the position of Deputy Director of the Port of Corpus Christi. Much of his time was spent looking for ways to increase non-traditional trade and projects that could diversify the business of the port in the future. Those projects included developing the port as a port of embarkation and debarkation of cruise ships, project cargos such as wind turbines, and obtaining the designation as a strategic military port for the United States Armed Forces.  The best example of that work is the La Quinta Trade Gateway, which seeks to add a new containerport in the Western Gulf of Mexico.  This project, twelve years in the making, will provide the much needed infrastructure to handle the growing trade in containerized cargo.  Mr. Jacobi retired from the Port of Corpus Christi in 2005 but continues to work on the La Quinta Trade Gateway project with the Port and J P Morgan Chase.

Ms. Salvati offers over 20 years of comprehensive knowledge and experience as a land use and environmental planner, and is certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners.  She has been responsible for numerous projects involving waterfront planning, comprehensive planning, site planning, environmental review and zoning for Western New York and Long Island municipalities.  She has assisted communities with the implementation of comprehensive plans and has vast experience facilitating public meetings and public participation programs. 

Ms. Salvati has extensive knowledge of the New York State Coastal Management Program and has prepared Local Waterfront Revitalization Programs (LWRP) and waterfront studies for a number of communities.  She has a thorough understanding of SEQRA and has been involved with the preparation of environmental impact statements.  Ms. Salvati’s overall background enables her to assist municipalities with site planning and subdivision review and she is the planning consultant to a number of Planning Boards in Western New York.  She has assisted a number of communities with the protection of their community character, including developing aesthetic and dimensional standards for site design. 

Ms. Salvati has extensive project management experience and has managed a number of multi-discipline projects.  Ms. Salvati has conducted presentations at planning and zoning conferences and provides land use training for local boards.  She was awarded the “2001 Outstanding Planning Project Award” by the American Planning Association – New York Upstate Chapter, for the Village of Alden Comprehensive Plan and was recognized by Business First as a Woman of Influence in 2003.  Ms. Salvati is the Vice Chairman of the Town of Clarence Planning Board and serves as the 1st Vice President on the Board of Directors for the New York Planning Federation.

Mr. Shibley is founder of the Urban Design Project Center at the University of Buffalo and is a former member of our AIA Committee.  He has participated in numerous AIA DATs.  His center recently completed the Buffalo Local Waterfront Revitalization Plan (Queen City Plan). 

As Director of the UDP, in partnership with the City of Buffalo and Buffalo Place, Inc, Mr. Shibley led the development of the City’s national award winning The Queen City Hub: A Regional Action Plan for Downtown Buffalo and its related implementation campaign (1999-2004).  Working with David Carter International and the Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth, he was a primary author of the City of Buffalo’s first comprehensive plan in over thirty years (adopted in February 2006).

Professor Shibley recently served as the Co-chair of the, Buffalo/ Ft. Erie, Ontario “Peace Bridge Selection Jury” and he served for four years as a member of the New York State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council as a nominee of the Governor ratified by the State Senate. The code effort was part of a successful program to bring the International Building Code to bear on building practices in New York State. In 2007, he was appointed as a Commissioner to the Erie Canalways National Heritage Corridor by the US Secretary of Interior based on a nomination by US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. He currently serves as both a Senior Fellow at UB’s Regional Institute and as a Senior Advisor to the President at UB for Campus Planning and Design.

Mr. Shibley is an author of eight books, including Urban Excellence, with Philip Langdon and Polly Welch (Van Nostrand Reinhold:1990); Placemaking: The Art and Science of Building Communities, with Lynda Schneekloth (John Wiley and Sons:1995), and the McGraw Hill compendium on the state of the art in urban design Time Savers Standards for Urban Design (2003) with Donald Watson and Alan Plattus. He has more than one hundred articles in scholarly and professional journals and a dozen book chapters.

Ms. Takesian has over 18 years experience in urban planning and community transportation design focused on bridging engineering, planning, urban design and economics to bring about walkable transit-friendly communities. As a key player in Maryland's Smart Growth strategy, Ms. Takesian led efforts by MDOT to integrate context sensitive design into the development of highway and transit projects. She has engaged local leaders and communities in state transportation decisions and managed capital projects improving pedestrian, safety, transit environments, and revitalization support. Since joining KAI, she has had a lead role in strategy studies to improve compatibility between local land use decisions and transportation facility design in walkable rural areas and transit accessible suburban communities. She has also lead transportation analysis of urban design plans to balance and integrate mode choice and promote walking and transit including the integration of streetcars within the urban core. She has taught courses in Context Sensitive Design for State DOTs in California and Maryland and has received industry awards for innovation in transportation solutions. She has presented her work in seminars for the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the Transportation Research Board, Kent State University Urban Design Center, Maryland Municipal League, Preservation Maryland, and the University of Maryland National Smart Growth Leadership Program.

Tim with his wife Idie are principals of Boulder Colorado based McGINTY which specializes in all scales of retail design from product development, fixtures, store planning and design, identity and signs, to design consulting for retail districts. Tim is an architect and the creative director for all architectural design, urban design and retail design projects.  For Barnes & Noble College Bookstores, Tim has recently completed comprehensive store design, store planning, interiors, signage and graphics for Texas Tech University, Texas A & M, Cal State-LA and the University of North Carolina - Greensboro. He also art directed college graphics and signage projects for the Harvard Coop, bookstores at Penn, Yale and Columbia. Other college projects include campus signage and wayfinding consulting for DePaul University and the University of Kansas. The Neo-Library "store within a store" that he designed for FIU won an award from the 2002 ISP/VM&SD International Retail Store Interior Design Competition. Tim also provides urban design consulting through the American Institute of Architects community design assistance programs and the Colorado Main Street program. Retail store design work includes Colorado stores for Timberline,  JJ Wells, Besos, Jackalope and Co., and Where the Buffalo Roam as well as several Boulder restaurants and coffee shops including Amante, Radda, and Brewing Market. Prior to co-founding McGINTY, Tim was a principal and senior designer at Kiku Obata & Company, and an architecture professor at Nebraska, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Arizona State and a visiting professor at California-Berkeley, Temple and Washington University. Tim is a registered architect (Wisconsin). He holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas and a Masters Degree in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania - Kahn Studio.