HDittmar's directory listing

Expertise

Urban design (13), transport (14), policy (2), environmental planning (1), regional planning, value capture, strategy.

Hank Dittmar became Chief Executive of The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment in January 2005. The Prince's Foundation is an educational charity established by the Prince of Wales to improve the quality of people's lives by teaching and practising timeless and ecological ways of planning, designing and building. Mr. Dittmar has 25 years of leadership experience in the fields of urban design, transportation planning and development. Prior to assuming the post with The Prince's Foundation, Mr. Dittmar was President and CEO of Reconnecting America, a nonprofit organization focused on building regions and communities around transit and walking rather than solely around the automobile. From 1993 to 1998, Dittmar was the Executive Director of the Surface Transportation Policy Project, the American national coalition for transportation reform. He has also served as a regional planner, an airport director and a public transit manager. His new book, The New Transit Town: Best Practices in Transit-Oriented Development, edited with Gloria Ohland and involving many prominent new urbanists as coauthors, was published in December 2003 by Island Press. He resides in London, England. He currently Chairs the CNU Board.