Mike Lydon
Founding Principal
BIO
Mike Lydon is the founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. Before launching TSPC in 2009, Lydon worked for Smart Growth Vermont, the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, and Ann Arbor’s GetDowntown Program. From 2006 - 2009 Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, an international leader in the practice of smart growth planning, design, and research techniques.
As a planner, writer, and activist, Mike’s work has appeared in or been featured by CNN Headline News, Planetizen, Next American City, New Urban News, Planning Magazine, the Miami Herald, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Mike has also collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing the recently published Smart Growth Manual. Mike remains a regular contributor to Planetizen and is a founding co-editor of A Living Urbanism, a creative journal chronicling the ever-changing built environment.
Most recently, Lydon was selected as one of thirty four Urban Vanguards for the Next American City, a magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders.
A founding member of the New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism, and a steering committee member of the Next Generation of New Urbanists, Lydon remains active in both local and national planning, design, and smart growth advocacy issues and speaks regularly on the topics of smart growth, new urbanism, and active transportation.
Mike served as a member of the City of Miami's Bicycle Action Committee, where helped spearhead the creation of the city's first Bicycle Action Plan, and the formulation of a monthly ciclovia, entitled Bike Miami Days. He currently serves on an Executive Committee for Transportation Alternatives--one of the country's leading active transportation advocacy organizations--and is a board member for the CNU New York Chapter.
Mike proudly grew up in Maine and received a B.A. in American Cultural Studies from Bates College. Mike also received a Master in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. He encourages you to trade four wheels for two.
UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS/LECTURES:
CNU 18: Rx for Healthy Places - Atlanta, GA, May 19-22, 2010
- "Smart Growth101-999, with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck
- Why isn’t Atlanta the Next Big Bicycling City?
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
Project: Woodward Station, Detroit, MI
Type: Transit-Oriented Development
Size: 18 acres
Status: Completed
Project: Downtown Detroit Design Charrette, Detroit, MI
Type: Downtown Master Plan
Size: 640 acres
Status: Completed
Project: Monroe Street, Detroit, MI
Type: Corridor Master Plan
Size: n/a
Status: Completed
Project: Miami 21, Miami, FL
Type: Form-Based Code
Size: 35 square miles
Status: Completed
Project: Cottonwood, Holladay, UT
Type: Suburban Town Center
Size: 54 acres
Status: Under Construction
Project: Federal City Charrette, New Orleans, LA
Type: Military Base Redevelopment Master Plan
Size: 150 acres
Status: Completed
Project: Gulfport, MS
Type: Master Plan (five sites)
Size: 2 acres to 250 acres
Status: Plans adopted
Project: Lifelong Communities Charrette, Atlanta, GA
Type: Master Plan (five sites)
Size: Various
Status: Completed
Bicycle Planning and Design Projects:
Project: Miami Bicycle Action Plan, Miami, FL
Type: Preliminary Bicycle Master Plan
Size: 35 square miles
Status: Approved
Project: Miami Bicycle Master Plan, Miami, FL
Type: Bicycle Master Plan
Size: 34 square miles
Status: Approved
Project: SmartCode Bicycle Module
Type: SmartCode Module
Size: n/a
Status: Complete
Project: BikePlanner
Type: Web-Based Collaborative Planning and Implementation Tool
Size: n/a
Status: Ongoing
Project: Bicycle City, SC
Type: Car-Free Town Master Plan
Size: 756 acres
Status: Ongoing
Project: Damariscotta, Maine Heart and Soul Planning Initiative
Type: Main Street Corridor Master plan
Size: n/a
Status: Complete
Project: Dennis Port, Massachusetts
Type: Bicycle Planning Charrette Support
Size: n/a
Status: Complete
Completed Lectures/Presentations:
”Damariscotta 2020,” Damariscotta, ME, December 2006.
“Miami and the 21st Century,” Michigan APA student Chapter Conference, Detroit, MI, Febuary, 2007.
“Three Generations of Sustainability in the Work of Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company,” International Making Cities Livable Conference, Santa Fe, NM, June, 2008.
“L.O.S. or B.S?” Annual Congress for the New Urbanism New England Chapter Conference, Portsmouth, NH, April, 2009.
“Bicycling in Miami,” 1st Miami Bicycle Summit, Miami, FL, June, 2009.
“Teen ‘Green’ Summit” Miami, FL, July, 2009.
“On Two Wheels: A Miami Bicycle Master Plan Presentation,” APA Gold Coast Chapter Luncheon, August 2009.
“Creating A Bicycle-Friendly Providence,” Providence, RI, September, 2009.
“Smart Growth Camden” Camden, ME, December 2009
"Introducing the Bicycle Module," SmartCode Retreat New Town St. Charles, MO February 2010
"Smart Location and Linkage" Vision Long Island LEED- ND Conference, Sustainability Institute at Molloy College, Farmingdale, NY March 23, 2010
"Innovation and the Built Environment," and "Taming the Car Culture," Creative Cities Summit - Lexington, KY, April 7-9, 2010
"Retrofitting Suburbia" Westchester Land Trust / CNU New York Chapter Retofitting Suburbia Conference, May 5, 2010
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