Ray (Raymond) Gastil
Ray Gastil, AICP is a writer, city planner, and urban designer who has held city planning leadership positions in New York, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. As a planner his work has focused on waterfronts, campuses, downtown revitalization, transit-oriented design, and neighborhood planning, as well as historic preservation, adaptive reuse, public art, and community development. As a consultant, educator, and non-profit executive director, he has developed design competitions, immersive urbanism workshops, and publications. Recent work includes consulting on a series of workshops addressing transit-oriented development in the Seattle Region, working with the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
He currently serves as Commissioner for Planning, Seattle Design Commission, and as President, Puget Sound Section, American Planners Association, Washington Chapter. He serves on the boards of City of Living Laboratory, a New York-based national organization focused on forging connections between art, science, ecology, and community, and Riverlife, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit dedicated to making the riverfronts of Pittsburgh central to a thriving community.
Gastil has spoken at conferences and seminars internationally, on innovation, sustainable urbanism, and public space, from the Ruhr Valley to Hong Kong and Barcelona, and has published in scholarly and general interest books, periodicals, and journals. Gastil has a Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University, a B.A. from Yale, and has taught studios and seminars on urbanism at Carnegie Mellon, where he headed the Remaking Cities Institute, as well as Penn State, UC Berkeley, and U Penn. He is the recipient of fellowship and grants from Dumbarton Oaks, MacDowell, and the Graham Foundation.
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