the City of Toronto and Principal of Greenberg Consultants. For over four decades he has played a pivotal

role on public and private assignments in urban settings throughout North America and Europe, focusing on

the rejuvenation of downtowns, waterfronts, neighbourhoods and on campus master planning, regional growth

management, and new community planning. Cities as diverse as Toronto, Hartford, Amsterdam, New York,

Boston, Montréal, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary, St. Louis, Washington DC, Paris, Detroit, Saint Paul and San

Juan Puerto Rico have benefited from his advocacy and passion for restoring the vitality, relevance and

sustainability of the public realm in urban life. In each city, with each project, his strategic, consensus building

approach has led to coordinated planning and a renewed focus on urban design. He is the recipient

of the 2010 American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Design Excellence and the

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014 Sustainable Buildings Canada Lifetime Achievement Award. Involved in many grass roots and

community initiatives he has served as a Board Member of Park People, a non-profit dedicated to the

improvement of Toronto's parks, is currently a Director of the Bentway Conservancy Board, on the Advisory

Board of Waterfront for All and President of the Wellington Place Neighbourhood Association. He is a cofounder

and Vice Chair of the new City Building Institute at Ryerson University in Toronto. A frequent

writer for periodicals, He is the author of Walking Home: the Life and Lessons of a City Builder published

by Random House and shortly to be released Toronto Reborn; Design Successes and Challenges published

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y Dundurn. He played a leading role as urban design lead and client representative for The Bentway, the

transformation of a major public space under the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto and is currently serving as

an advisor to Sidewalk Labs for Quayside on the Toronto waterfront.

Ken Greenberg is an urban designer, teacher, writer, former Director of Urban Design and Architecture for