Lance Jay Brown, FAIA, DPACSA, is the principal of Lance
Jay Brown Architecture + Urban Design in NYC, Fellow of the
Institute for Urban Design, and ACSA Distinguished Professor at the
Spitzer School of Architecture, CCNY. He was elected 2014 President
of the AIA New York Chapter, is co-founder of its Design for Risk
and Reconstruction Committee, and a founding Board Member of the
Consortium for Sustainable Urbanization. He contributed to and
co-edited Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the
Occupation of Public Space (2012) and co-authored The Legacy
Project: New Housing New York/Via Verde (2013). In 2007 he was
awarded the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in
Architectural Education. He has served as director of the School of
Architecture at CCNY, director of the City College Architectural
Center, and assistant director for programs at the National
Endowment for the Arts.

David Dixon, FAIA, is an urban designer who lives and
works in Boston. In 2003, as President of the Boston Society of
Architects, he organized Myth and Reality, the First National
Conference on Density to challenge widely-held negative
associations about the concept of urban density. In 2008 he
received the American Institute of Architects' Thomas
Jefferson Medal for "a lifetime of... significant achievement
in creating...livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and
vital downtowns". For more than 20 years he led Goody
Clancy's planning and urban design practice, which earned the
American Planning Association's 2013 Firm Award for
Excellence in Planning. In 2014, David joined Stantec to initiate a
broadly interdisciplinary practice to support communities in
meeting the unprecedented opportunities and challenges of this
rapidly evolving urban era.

The late Oliver Gillham, AIA, was an architect and city
planner, as well as the founder of Gillham & Gander Associates.
He was also the coauthor of The Limitless City: A Primer on the
Urban Sprawl Debate.