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CHARLES S. BOHL
Mr. Bohl is a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Urban and Regional Studies, and instructor of traditional urbanism and sustainable community design at North Carolina State University School of Design. He is also the author of the forthcoming Urban Land Institute publication Placemaking: Town Centers, Main Street and Transit Villages.

CHARLES TERRY SHOOK
Charles Shook is co-founder and President of Shook  Design Group, Inc. Charlotte, NC and Los Angeles, CA where he directs a design practice that merges the traditional disciplines of architecture and urban design with the best practices of advertising and consumer research.

He and his colleagues have developed unique design approaches founded upon techniques and principles distilled from the fields of cultural anthropology, demography, and psychology. An arsenal of atypical design tools and methodologies have been developed which allows the firm to design a diverse range of environments, from restaurants to mixed-use town centers, that tap into the psychographic values and aspirations of the populations they serve. Through such processes Mr. Shook and the firm's professionals in merchandising, market research, advertising, environmental graphics, and entertainment design have delivered immersive environments that respond to consumers expectations regarding lifestyle  and convenienvce, and to time honored principles associated with enduring places. Mr. Shook also co-teaches a course in urban retailing with Robert Gibbs for Harvard's Summer Institute at the Graduate School of Design.

Mr. Shook and the firm have been published widely and have ongoing projects throughout the U.S. and Australia.

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VICTOR DOVER
Mr. Dover is a leading New Urbanist practitioner with expertise in the redevelopment of shopping malls. Recent examples of his work include Eastgate Mall, Chattanooga, TN and Winter Park Mall, Winter Park, FL. He and his firm, Dover, Kohl & Partners, have extensive experience in community planning, public participation, and public design workshops. Examples of work by the firm have been published in Urban Land, Progressive Architecture, Metropolitan Home, and in numerous planning journals, and have been featured on National Public Radio. Dover-Kohl projects are also profiled in The New Urbanism by Peter Katz and Home From Nowhere by Jim Kunstler.

RICHARD BAILEY
Mr. Bailey was heavily involved in the public-private partnership efforts to redevelop Eastgate Mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is the director of the Chattanooga News Bureau, a national media relations office funded by the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce and the City of Chattanooga. He authored the Mall Over article on this effort, published in Urban Land magazine.

RICHARD HALL
Mr. Hall is a transportation planner and traffic engineer with over 27 years of experience. He is President of Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc. which recently assisted DPZ Architects and Town Planners during three Design Charrettes by addressing transportation engineering issues of planned new towns. He has led several major corridor studies toward successful commission adoption through innovative public participation programs. Mr. Hall is a registered professional engineer in Florida and served as President of the Florida Section, Institute of Transportation Engineers, and as Chairman of the FSITE Growth Management Technical Subcommittee.

TODD ZIMMERMAN
Mr. Zimmermann is a leading market analyst and real estate advisor for New Urbanist communities, specializing in housing. His firm, Zimmermann/Volk (based in Clinton, NJ) has been involved in dozens of studies for projects throughout the U.S. Mr. Zimmermann was also involved in the recent study sponsored by the Congress for the New Urbanism on the opportunities for reinvestment in declining shopping malls.