Peter Calthorpe is an architect and urban planner, and a founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992 that promotes sustainable building practices.

Biography

Calthorpe was born in London and raised in Palo Alto. He attended the Yale School of Architecture.

In the mid 1970s, Calthorpe left Yale to work with California governor Jerry Brown on sustainable building projects. In 1983, he formed Calthorpe Associates, which has worked on several neighborhood development projects in Northern California and other locations in the mid-west. He has co-authored several books on sustainable development. Peter Calthorpe was green when it wasn’t easy, San Francisco Business Times

Calthorpe was named the 2006 Laureate of the Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, for his work in walkable communities and land preservation.

Writings

• Calthorpe, Peter: The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream, Princeton Architectural Press, 1993
• Calthorpe, Peter and Fulton, William: The Regional City, Island Press, 2001

References