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Marsh Distinguished Lecture Series - September 2002

Armando Carbonell

"Planning Cape Cod: Science, Participation and Policy"
Thursday, September 12, 2002 -- 12:00 noon
New IDCE building, 10 Hawthorne Street, Conference Room A

Armando Carbonell is Senior Fellow and Co-Chairman of the Department of Planning and Development at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Department is concerned with the theory and practice of urban and regional planning and design, land conservation, urban redevelopment, and the behavior of land markets. He is the co-editor, with Terry Szold of M.I.T., of the recently published volume Smart Growth: Form and Consequences. Carbonell is also Design Critic and Lecturer in the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Prior to his appointment to the Institute in 1999, Carbonell had been Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency, beginning with its establishment in 1990. In 1986, he initiated Prospect: Cape Cod, the strategic planning project that led to the 1989 passage of the Cape Cod Commission Act. During 1992-1993, he held a Loeb Fellowship in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He chaired the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council panel on groundwater vulnerability in 1991 and 1992.