Barbara Faga

Ms. Faga is an urban planner, author, and speaker with over 30 years experience on large urban projects including Garibaldi Repubblica in Milan, the Redevelopment Plan and Tax Allocation District (TAD) for the Atlanta BeltLine, a 25-mile ring of rail right-of-way in downtown Atlanta; Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta; Diagonal Mar Parc, Barcelona; Wharf District Park of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, the downtown park over the $15B Big-Dig in Boston; the Tampa Riverwalk master plan; South Beach and Ocean Drive neighborhoods urban design/streetscape and Indian Creek Greenway--$50M in construction cost, Miami Beach; the Carter Presidential Center, Atlanta; Disney’s Celebration, FL; Schuylkill River master plan, Philadelphia, PA; Lancaster Avenue redevelopment, Fort Worth; and West Peachtree Street in Atlanta.



Barbara chaired EDAW’s board of directors from 1996 through 2005. Her book, Designing Public Consensus: the Civic Theater of Community Participation for Architects, Landscape Architects, Planners, and Urban Designers (2006) was released in March 2006, and she is an editorial board member and contributing editor for Landscape Architecture Graphic Standards, (2006), both published by John Wiley & Sons. Barbara is a contributing author to Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster, UPENN Press (2007). She received the distinguished alumni award in landscape architecture, Michigan State University in 1998 and was named one of the top 15 women changing the world of architecture by DesignIntelligence magazine in 2004.



Barbara has conducted hundreds of public meetings, served as a board member and chaired several environmental, professional, and retail associations and speaks regularly in the U.S., Europe and South America on urban issues for professional associations, public agencies, and universities. She has directed complex teams on large, time-sensitive, and award winning projects including downtown revitalization, waterfront developments, parks, land management, and housing and community development plans. She has worked in the U.S., South America, the Middle East,and Europe and as in-house urban designer with the cities of Atlanta, Georgia and Alexandria, Virginia.