Peter Calthorpe

Peter Calthorpe is an architect, urban designer, and planner widely recognized as one of the founders of the New Urbanism movement. Over more than four decades, he has championed sustainable, transit-oriented development through influential books such as The Next American Metropolis and Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change, helping shape contemporary thinking about urban growth, mobility, and housing. A founding partner of Calthorpe Associates, he is a planning and urban design expert at HDR and has led major projects across North America and internationally. He also founded UrbanFootprint, a scenario-planning platform used to evaluate housing, transportation, climate, and land-use strategies. His contributions to urbanism have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Urban Land Institute's J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development and the Seaside Prize.