Sue Chan
Senior Associate
Sue Chan is an urban designer with a background in city planning and landscape architecture. Her professional experience includes community and urban design, site planning, landscape architecture, environmental planning and facilitation of public participation workshops. Specific projects have involved:
- urban design;
- site design and streetscape improvements;
- comprehensive planning and land use studies;
- the development of neighborhood-scale design guidelines;
- specific plans and station area plans;
- environmental planning and analysis; and,
- neighborhood and community participation.
Throughout her professional practice, Ms. Chans experience has included both planning and design in a variety of projects ranging from urban to natural settings. She has worked with a variety of clients including private developers, public agencies and non-profit groups. Past projects have ranged from master plan designs for various New Towns to site-specific designs for pedestrian street improvements. Other projects have included comprehensive environmental planning for rural and open space preservation, regional planning, neighborhood planning and design, and residential landscape design. While at Calthorpe Associates Ms. Chan was part of the design team responsible for creating prototypical development scenarios for the Portland metropolitan region as part of the 2040 planning process, managed a design team through the master plan design process of two New Towns in Indonesia, and created village designs and guidelines for a New Town in the Philippines. At Berkeley, she was a Graduate Student Instructor for the undergraduate Introduction to City Planning course taught by Professor Fred Collignon.
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14 |
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| Professional Practice |
2001- |
Associate, Community Design + Architecture |
| 2000-01 |
Urban Designer, Community Design + Architecture; Oakland, California |
| 1999 |
Urban Designer, Design, Community & Environment, Berkeley, California |
| 1993-98 |
Urban Designer, Calthorpe Associates, Berkeley, California |
| 1993-98 |
Designer and Planner, Scharffenberger Land Planning and Design, San Francisco, California |
| 1991-93 |
Landscape Designer, Julia Lundy Associates, Portland, Oregon |
| 1991 |
Landscape Designer, Hart Howerton, San Francisco, California |
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| Education |
2000 |
Master of City Planning, University of California, Berkeley
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| 1989 |
Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Architecture, University of California, Berkeley
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| Affiliations |
Member Congress for the New Urbanism
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