University of Colorado Law Review
Volume 80 Issue 4, Fall 2009
About the Contributors
SARA C. BRONIN, Modern Lights, is an Associate Professor of
Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Professor
Bronin has researched and published in the area of property,
land use, sustainable development, and historic preservation
law. She has a professional degree in architecture, a master's
degree from Oxford (where she was a Rhodes Scholar), and a
law degree from Yale. In addition to her academic projects,
Professor Bronin serves as a real estate development consultant
and serves as a LEED accredited professional.
PATRICIA E. SALKIN, New York Climate Change Report
Card: Improvement Needed for More Effective Leadership and
Overall Coordination with Local Government, is the Raymond & Ella Smith Professor of Law at Albany Law School, where
she also serves as associate dean and director of the Government
Law Center. In addition, Professor Salkin serves a member
of the faculty of the ALI-ABA Land Use Institute and has
served in various positions within the state government of New York.
MATTHEW J. KIEFER, Toward a Net-Zero Carbon Planet: A
Policy Proposal, is a director in the Boston office of Goulston &
Storrs, P.C., where he practices real estate and land use law
and coordinates the firm’s green practice. He is a visiting
lecturer in the urban planning program at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design.
NICOLE MILLER, Policy, Urban Form, and Tools for Measuring
and Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The North
American Problem, is a PhD student in Resource Management and Environmental Studies at the University of British
Columbia. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University
of Kansas and a Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture
from UBC. Her research focuses on linking patterns of
urban development to quantitative analyses of greenhouse gas
emissions.
DUNCAN CAVENS, Policy, Urban Form, and Tools for Measuring
and Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The North
American Problem, is a Post-Doctoral fellow at the University
of British Columbia. His background includes degrees in civil
engineering, landscape architecture, computer science, and
forestry. His work focuses on urban simulation tools for use in
collaborative planning and design contexts.
PATRICK CONDON, Policy, Urban Form, and Tools for Measuring
and Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The North
American Problem, is a Professor of Landscape Architecture at
the University of British Columbia, where he holds the James
Taylor Chair in Landscape and Livable Environments
and serves as a Senior Researcher at the UBC Design Centre
for Sustainability. His work focuses on the art, science, and
politics of sustainable community design. His most recent book
is The Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities; Design Rules
for a Low Carbon Future (Island Press, 2010).
RONALD KELLETT, Policy, Urban Form, and Tools for Measuring
and Managing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: The North
American Problem, is a Professor of Landscape Architecture in
the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the
University of British Columbia, where he teaches and conducts
research in environment and urban form. He is co-author, with
Cynthia Girling, of Skinny Streets and Green Neighborhoods:
Design for Environment and Community (Island Press, 2005).
PETER POLLOCK, A Comment on Making Sustainable Land-
Use Planning Work, is the Ronald Smith Fellow at the Lincoln
Institute of Land Policy. Since July 2006 he has been working
with the Department of Planning and Urban Form to manage
the Institute’s joint venture projects with the Sonoran Institute
and the Public Policy Research Institute of the University of
Montana. He worked for almost twenty-five years for the City
of Boulder, Colorado as both a short- and long-range planner,
and he served as director of the city’s Planning Department
from 1999 to 2006. Pollock began his career as the staff urban
planner for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden,
Colorado, where he specialized in solar-access protection,
energy-conserving land-use planning, and outreach to local
communities. During the 1997–1998 academic year Pollock
was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School
of Design and a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute. He
received his master’s degree in landscape architecture at the
University of California at Berkeley in 1978 and his bachelor’s
degree in environmental planning at the University of California
at Santa Cruz in 1976.
BRIAN MULLER, Adapting to Post-Oil Futures: Community
Action, the Urban Sustainability Retrofit, and the Writings of
James Howard Kunstler, is an Associate Professor at the University
of Colorado Denver. He earned a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Yale University and a PhD in urban and regional planning from the University of California at Berkeley. Muller
had a twenty-year career as a policy and program administrator
in federal and state government, focusing in the areas
of community economic development and sustainable land-use
planning. He currently teaches courses in land-use and environmental planning. Muller’s research interests include land regulation, dynamics of urban growth and decline, and
environmental assessment methods.