Peter Calthorpe

Peter Calthorpe is a San Francisco–based architect, urban designer and urban planner. He is a founding member of the Congress for New Urbanism, a Chicago-based advocacy group formed in 1992 that promotes sustainable building practices. For his works on redefining the models of urban and suburban growth in America, Calthorpe has been named one of twenty-five ‘innovators on the cutting edge’ by Newsweek magazine.