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Robert Cervero

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Robert Cervero is an author, scholar, consultant, and educator in sustainable transportation policy and planning. During his 36 years as a faculty member in city and regional planning at the University of California, Berkeley, he gained international recognition for his work in the sphere of urban transportation and land-use planning, in the United States and worldwide. He is also known for his work on induced demand, transit-oriented development (TOD) and transit villages, informal transport and paratransit, car sharing, and suburban growth and traffic management.

Robert Cervero
Speaking at Innovative Cities conference in Fortaleza, Brazil, 2018
BornMay 8, 1951, Norfolk, Virginia.
EducationAB (University of North Carolina, 1973); MS and MCP (Georgia Institute of Technology, 1975); University of California, Los Angeles, 1980).
Websiteced.berkeley.edu/ced/faculty-staff/robert-cervero

Academic and professional life

Currently holding the title professor emeritus of City and Regional Planning,[1] Cervero twice chaired Berkeley's urban planning department and also served as director of two major research units: the University of California Transportation Center (UCTC, 2009-2017[2]) and the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD, 2009-2014[3]). Cervero held Berkeley planning department’s first distinguished chair appointment, the Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies from 2011 to his retirement from academe in 2016.[4] Among his books are Beyond Mobility (2017),[5] Transforming Cities with Transit (2013),[6] Informal Transport in the Developing World (2001),[7] The Transit Metropolis (1998),[8] Transit Villages in the 21st Century (1997), Paratransit in America (1997), America’s Suburban Centers (1989) and Suburban Gridlock (1986).

While UC Berkeley was home for much of his academic life, Cervero has had visiting academic and research appointments at a number of other universities and institutions, including: University of Cambridge (Churchill College, Overseas Fellow); Nanyang Technological University (SMRT Visiting Profess); University College London (Visiting Professor); University of Pennsylvania (Faculty Fellow); King Saud University (Academic Expert); Tongji University; University of Melbourne; Universidade Federal Do Rio de Janeiro; Institute of Technology Bandung; Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements; Harvard Institute for International Development; Dortmund University; and Urban Land Institute (Fellow). Since 2017, Cervero has served as a visiting professor at NYU-Abu Dhabi, teaching a January-term class on "Green Mobility and Cities".

Robert Cervero has served on over a dozen editorial boards of academic journals, including co-editorship of Access, a publication of the University of California. He has chaired the International Association of Urban Environments, served on the Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum‘s Future of Urban Development and was a contributing author to the IPCC (International Panel on Climate Change) Fifth Assessment (2014) and UN-Habitat’s Global Report on Sustainable Urban Mobility (2013).[9]

Recognitions

Robert Cervero is the first-ever recipient of the Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning Research and is a two-time recipient of the Article of the Year Award from the Journal of the American Planning Association. In 2013, UMB’s Future Cities ranked Robert Cervero among the top 100 City Innovators Worldwide.[10] That year he also won Hsue-shen Tsien Gold Medal award, given in Beijing for his influence on Chinese transit metropolises.[citation needed] In 2016, Cervero was recognized by Planning magazine as one of "Five Academic Planners You Should Know"[11] and credited as the "pioneer" of the now-ubiquitous "D" variables for studying travel behavior and called "the world’s top expert on transit-oriented development". That year, at the time of his retirement from UC Berkeley, he had the second highest h-index (Google Scholar citations) ranking among more than 1000 urban planning academics in North America.[12]

Personal life

Cervero is married to Sophia Cervero and they have three children: Kristen, Christopher, and Alexandria. A guitarist and mellotronist, Robert Cervero has maintained an active foot in music much of his life.[13] He has chronicled the music of the prog-rock band King Crimson as a collector of rare live music,[14] anniversary parties,[15] and listening parties of unreleased music (posted on Elephant Talk),[16][17][18][19] and a tribute to mellotrons.[20] In 2000, he created a fan page for the prog-rock Irish band Fruupp.[21]

In the early 2000s, Cervero got involved with the Active Living movement, serving as chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Active Living Research (ALR) program for more than decade.[22] This affiliation with physical activity research prompted him to become more physically active himself. In his fifties to mid-sixties, he completed more than 60 marathons[23] and over 110 ultramarathons (31 miles or longer, including seven 100-milers).[24] Running and active living extended into his transportation research as well, including involvement in several National Academy projects[25] and research on "Running to Work".[26]

Books

  • Beyond Mobility: Planning Cities for People and Places. Washington, D.C., Island Press, 2017; with E. Guerra and S. Als.
  • Suburban Gridlock II. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 2013 (re-release with a new introduction)
  • Transforming Cities with Transit. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2013; with H. Suzuki  and K. Iuchi; http://www.scribd.com/doc/119380943/Transforming-Cities-with-Transit
  • Developing Around Transit: Strategies and Solutions That Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2004; with R. Dunphy, F. Dock, M. McAvery, D. Porter, and C. Swenson.
  • Informal Transport in the Developing World, Nairobi, Kenya: UN Habitat, 2000.
  • The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry, Washington, DC: Island Press, 1998; translated into Chinese, China Architecture and Building Press, 2007. Winner of Hsue-shen Tsien Gold Medal award.
  • Paratransit in America: Redefining Mass Transportation. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997.
  • Transit Villages in the 21st Century. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997; with M. Bernick.
  • America's Suburban Centers: The Land Use-Transportation Link. Boston: Unwin-Hyman, 1989.
  • Suburban Gridlock. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University Press, 1986.

References

  1. ^ "Robert-Cervero". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  2. ^ "University of California Transportation Center". www.uctc.net. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  3. ^ "Home | IURD". iurd.berkeley.edu. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  4. ^ "August 12, 2012: Professor Robert B. Cervero Appointed Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Urban Studies". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  5. ^ "Beyond Mobility Planning Cities for People and Places | UC Berkeley Institute of Transportation Studies". its.berkeley.edu. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  6. ^ Suzuki, Hiroaki; Cervero, Robert; Iuchi, Kanako. Transforming Cities with Transit: Urban Development. doi:10.1596/978-0-8213-9745-9.
  7. ^ Informal Transport in the Developing World. ISBN 9211314534.
  8. ^ "Transit Metropolis". Journal of Planning Education and Research. 19: 107.
  9. ^ Global Report on Human Settlements 2013. ISBN 9789211325683.
  10. ^ "InformationWeek News Connects The Business Technology Community". InformationWeek. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  11. ^ "Five Academic Planners You Should Know" (PDF). {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  12. ^ "Ranking North American Urban Planning Scholars Using Google Scholar Citation Profiles". Tom Sanchez. December 10, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  13. ^ "music miscellany". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  14. ^ "King Crimson". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  15. ^ "30th Party". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  16. ^ "Review of The King Crimson "Epitaph" Listening Party, London". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  17. ^ "The King Crimson "Epitaph" Listening Party, NY - Could two KCs co-exist?". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  18. ^ "Elephant Talk: Reviews - King Crimson "The Night Watch" Listening Party, London". www.elephant-talk.com. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  19. ^ "Elephant Talk: Reviews - KC "The Night Watch" Playback and Wetton/McDonald, NY". www.elephant-talk.com. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  20. ^ "Crimson's trons". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  21. ^ "Fruupp Tribute Page". Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  22. ^ "Home | Active Living Research". www.activelivingresearch.org. Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  23. ^ "Marathons". Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  24. ^ "Ultras". Retrieved January 23, 2018.
  25. ^ Board, Transportation Research; Medicine, Institute of (January 11, 2005). Does the Built Environment Influence Physical Activity?: Examining the Evidence -- Special Report 282. doi:10.17226/11203.
  26. ^ Cervero, Robert (Spring 2016). "Running to Work" (PDF). Retrieved December 12, 2017.
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