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Meg Walker
Vice President
A registered architect and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners, Meg Walker has a broad range of experience in architectural and urban design, as well as planning, in both the public and private sectors. Ms. Walker rejoined Project for Public Spaces, Inc. in 2004 after five years as the Planning Director for the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson.
As a Vice President at PPS and also Director of Design, her projects have ranged from transportation plans and downtown economic development strategies to waterfront and urban park designs. She has recently focused on the design of public spaces in mixed-use developments and new town centers. Projects she has recently directed or consulted on include: a redevelopment plan for a historic neighborhood in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina; a concept for a new mixed-use development with a major urban plaza in downtown Orlando, FL; a plan for a new mixed-use town center in a new residential community in Lincoln, Nebraska; and, a plan for a new town center and park in Oviedo, Florida.
As the Planning Director for the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, from 1998 to 2003, Meg facilitated a community-based planning process focusing on the redevelopment of Hastings’ fifty-acre, derelict waterfront and developed plans for the revitalization of Kinnally Cove, a new waterfront park. She also led the planning effort to revitalize and rezone the downtown, in addition to reviewing large development proposals for the Village.
Meg originally joined PPS in 1994 after fifteen years of architectural practice with the firms of James Stewart Polshek and Partners, Buttrick White and Burtis Architects, and her own partnership, Ryzinski Walker Architects.
Meg is also an experienced facilitator and accomplished public speaker.
Education
Wesleyan University, Bachelor of Arts
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Master of Architecture
The Land Use Law Center of the Pace University School of Law and the Glynwood Center, Community Leadership Alliance Training Program
Facilitation
Community Leadership Alliance Training Program (1998 – 1993)
The Land Use Law Center of Pace University School of Law and the Glynwood Center. Facilitated six CLA training programs for local leaders in the Hudson Valley.
Instruction
NYU, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service (1996- 1998)
Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning
Taught year-long planning workshop.
New Jersey Institute of Technology (1988)
Adjunct Instructor of Design in the School of Architecture
Guest Critic (1984 – present)
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, City College of New York, City University Graduate Program in Urban Design, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Pratt Institute
Publications
Project for Public Spaces, Inc. TCRP Report 22, The Role of Transit in Creating Livable Metropolitan Communities, National Academy Press, (1997).
Federal Transit Administration. The Livable Communities Initiative, (1996).
Awards & Honors
Westchester Municipal Planning Federation (WMPF): Commendation Award for a Redevelopment Plan for the Hastings-on-Hudson Waterfront (2002)
William Kinne Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University: Preservation of Historic Towns in Poland (1981)
Languages
Meg has lived and worked in Paris and Berlin, and is fluent in French and German.
