University of
Virginia:
“Timothy Beatley is the Teresa Heinz Professor of
Sustainable Communities, in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning,
School of Architecture at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for
the last twenty-five years. Much of Beatley’s work focuses on the subject of
sustainable communities, and creative strategies by which cities and towns can
fundamentally reduce their ecological footprints, while at the same time becoming
more livable and equitable places. Beatley believes that sustainable and
resilient cities represent our best hope for addressing today’s environmental
challenges. Beatley is the author or co-author of more than fifteen books on
these subjects, including Green Urbanism: Learning from European Cities
(recently translated into Chinese), Habitat Conservation Planning, Native to
Nowhere: Sustaining Home and Community in a Global Age, and Planning for
Coastal Resilience. He has co-authored two books with Australian planner Peter
Newman: Resilient Cities and Green Urbanism Down Under: Learning From
Sustainable Australian Communities. Beatley’s book Ethical Land Use was
declared, by the American Planning Association, to be one of the “100 EssentialBooks in Planning” His
most recent book is Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and
Planning, which argues that cities can and must be designed to permit daily
contact with the natural world. It identifies a variety of means for doing
this, from green walls and green rooftops to urban forests and sidewalk
gardens. Beatley recently collaborated on a documentary film about green cities
and urban nature, entitled The Nature of Cities, which has been shown on PBS
(Public Broadcasting System) stations all over the U.S. He also writes a
regular column for Planning Magazine, called Ever Green, about environmental
and sustainability matters. His research has been funded by a variety of
agencies and organizations including the National Science Foundation, Virginia
Sea Grant, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among
others. Beatley holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MA in Political Science from UNC, a
Masters of Urban Planning from the University of Oregon, and a Bachelors of
City Planning from UVA.”
~University of
Virginia
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