Todd W. Mansfield, who oversaw the planning and

Todd W. Mansfield, who oversaw the planning and initial development of Celebration, Florida, while president of the Walt Disney Company’s Celebration Company, has been named chairman of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). Mansfield, executive vice president of Disney from 1986 to 1997, says he wants to continue ULI’s focus “on identifying best practices and on promoting better growth patterns throughout our urban regions.” “It’s about pursuing more effective land use models and achieving better connectivity within these areas so entire regions can function more efficiently,” says Mansfield, now chairman and CEO of Crosland LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina. He says ULI “can promote models that are less auto-dependent and offer plenty of options for getting from one place to another.” Mansfield was grand marshal of this year’s Independence Day parade in Celebration.