Instructor: Reid Ewing

Reid Ewing

Dr. Ewing has completed a number of highly influential transportation studies that carefully examine transportation and the environment, transit-oriented developments, emergency evacuation, pedestrian and transit-friendly design, urban development and green house gases, and the relationship between sprawl and obesity.

Dr. Ewing is a highly sought-after panelist, lecturer, and media spokesperson. He currently writes a monthly column for Planning magazine and his work has been cited many times in national publications like USA Today, Time, US News and World Report, and Washington Post, National Public Radio, ABC and CBS Radio News, and almost all of the 50 top daily newspapers in the U.S.

His work has been sponsored by some of the top organizations in the country, including Smart Growth America, Urban Land Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health , the National Highway Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the US Green Building Council.

Ewing has been a research professor at the National Center for Smart Growth, and has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of Maryland, Rutgers University, Florida International University, and the University of Arizona. Reid is an associate editor of the Journal of American Planning Association; a columnist for Planning magazine; and a fellow of the Urban Land Institute.

His previous professional positions include Senior Planner/Engineer with Glatting Lopez Kercher Anglin, Inc., State Representative to the Arizona Legislature, and analyst for the US House of Representatives and the Congressional Budget Office. His Best Development Practices is one of the best selling books in the American Planning Association's history, and his 2003 article on sprawl and obesity is the most is the most widely reported planning study ever.

Dr. Ewing holds the Doctor of Philosophy 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.

Reid Ewing is currently teaching:

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