WEBINAR
Presented by the LAI Global Chapter

 October 18, 2016

6:00am Hawaii Time / 9:00am Pacific Time / 12:00pm Eastern Time/ 5:00pm London Time
6:00pm Madrid Time / 8:00pm UAE Time / 9:30pm Mumbai Time

What makes our cities livable?

What can be learned from the urban experience in cities around the globe?

Allen Folks

Director of Urban Design & Planning, Ascent Environmental

No fee to attend.

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About the speaker:

Allen recently joined Ascent in Sacramento, California to lead their design and planning practice.  Allen has been with EDAW/AECOM for most of his professional career, working in the San Francisco, Sacramento, and Singapore offices.  He has managed and led the master planning and urban design business in all offices; through marketing, managing, and delivering the work to the firm’s clients.  The work in Singapore that Allen was leading for AECOM involved the planning and design for a new township in Singapore for the federal government, a large land reclamation assignment in Manila Bay, Philippines, and several Transit Oriented Developments in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  Allen returned to the Sacramento office of AECOM in July of 2015, and moved to Ascent in February, 2016.

Allen’s work in California includes work for both the public and private sector, primarily in the Bay Area and greater Sacramento region.  Allen has developed masterplans for many of the private development companies in the region, as well as public sector clients such as the City and County of Sacramento, and the Cities of Roseville, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove, Davis, and West Sacramento.  Allen led plans for the redevelopment of many of the military bases that were closed in Northern California; prepared vision plans for several prominent Department of Energy Laboratories such as Livermore and Sandia; and has developed plans for the waterfront in the Cities of San Francisco, CA, and Portland, OR.  He is currently working on the preparation of Master Plans for clients in the California cities of West Sacramento, Antioch, and Hollister.

Allen is a former past District Council Chair for the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Sacramento and has served on 13 ULI Advisory Service Panels nationwide over the last 10 years; and served on 2 panels in Asia (Luzon, Philippines and Foshan, China).  Allen was a frequent speaker at conferences in South East Asia on the topic of transit oriented development.  Allen is a registered Landscape Architect with the State of California.