Reid Ewing is a Research Professor at the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association, columnist for Planning magazine, and Fellow of the Urban Land Institute. Formerly, he was Director of the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, and earlier in his career, he served two terms in the Arizona legislature and worked on urban policy issues at the Congressional Budget Office.

His most recent book, written for EPA and published by the Urban Land Institute, is Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change. Also due out this year, and published by the American Planning Association, is National Traffic Calming Manual.

He has authored books for the major planning and development organizations: Developing Successful New Communities for the Urban Land Institute; Best Development Practices: Doing the Right Thing and Making Money at the Same Time and Transportation & Land Use Innovations: When you can’t pave your way out of congestion for the American Planning Association; and Traffic Calming: State of the Practice for the Institute of Transportation Engineers. The two books for the American Planning Association made him APA’s top selling author for many years. His study of sprawl and obesity received more national media coverage than any planning study before or since, and at one time, was the most widely cited academic paper in the Social Sciences, according to Essential Science Indicators.

His prior work on smart growth development includes the Smart Growth Network’s Pedestrian- and Transit-Friendly Design: A Primer for Smart Growth, U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED—Neighborhood Development Guidelines, the Institute of Transportation Engineers’ Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities, the National Wildlife Federation’s Endangered by Sprawl, and dozens of consulting projects around the United States.

He holds master degrees in Engineering and City Planning from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems and Urban Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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