Richard Bernhardt starts EDAW office

Richard Bernhardt, director of planning for the City of Orlando for 17 years, resigned from that position to start a specialty town planning and urban design office for EDAW, a nationwide design firm. The studio, based in Orlando, will focus on new urbanist planning. “I’ve been increasingly involved in the New Urbanism during the last 10 years in my work for the city,” says Bernhardt. “I’ve been looking for an opportunity to take what I have learned and apply the lessons more broadly.” To staff the office, Bernhardt says he will be recruiting land planners and architects from outside of EDAW, as well as landscape architects already employed by the firm.