Kimberly is a designer at Calthorpe Associates with six years of experience in urban planning and landscape architecture.  While at Calthorpe Associates she has contributed to a range of projects including the development of retail centers, transit oriented communities, urban infill projects, and large master planned developments.  Some of Kimberly’s recent projects include:

International Plans
Tunis Marin (Tunis, Tunisia) – This master plan reconnects the existing city with its historic port by providing a new mixed-use commercial center, developing a variety of new housing opportunities, and focusing development around a major new intercity transit hub.  In order to strengthen the city’s efforts to provide new opportunities for investment in the region the mix of proposed uses includes hotels, a convention center, a ferry terminal and light rail stations.

Jumeriah Village (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) – Covering over 1,900 acres and planned for a population of 230,000 people, the Jumeriah Horizon plan integrates a mix of high density residential and office towers with villas and town homes in a network of transit and pedestrian friendly streets.  This plan will serve as a ‘pro-urban’ model for future neighborhood development in this rapidly expanding city.
St. Andrew’s Master Plan (Perth, Australia) – Calthorpe Associates was hired by Tokyu Corporation, Japan’s leading transit-oriented developer, to create a master plan for 12,000 acres of undeveloped land near the towns of Yanchep and Two Rocks, 30 miles north of Perth, Australia.  The St. Andrew’s project will be a major new urban center for the Perth region, and serve as an example of how environmentally sensitive growth can occur.

Community Design
Mesa del Sol (Alburquerque, New Mexico) – Located within the urban development reserve of Albuquerque, New Mexico on the southern side of the city, Mesa del Sol will be a large new district, eventually housing 100,000 residents and 80,000 jobs. On completion this 13,000 acre site will include major open spaces, civic amenities, a multi-modal transportation network, and a full range of land uses.
Stapleton Redevelopment Plan (Denver, CO) - At nearly 4,700 acres, this redevelopment of Denver’s old airport into a series of transit-oriented walkable neighborhoods is the nation’s largest urban infill project.  The project will feature 13,000 new residential units, nearly 10 million square feet of new employment uses, 2 million square feet of retail and 1,200 acres of new regional open space. As of spring 2004, more than 1000 homes are occupied, and the first phase mixed-use village center is complete and occupied.

Emrick Town Center (Bethlehem Township, PA) – This 300 acre mixed-use project provides more than a million square feet of commercial uses in a main street format. Major retail tenants (‘big boxes’)  are incorporated into the Main Street configuration instead of standing alone surrounded on all sides by parking as would be typical in a center of this size.  Employment, civic amenities, and housing are all located in and around the core of the project.
 

Kimberly received her undergraduate degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Waterloo.  She also has a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph where her main area of research was a post occupancy evaluation of Cornell, a New Urbanist community located in Markham, Ontario, Canada.  Kimberly presented the results of her study at the Congress of New Urbanism conference in 2007 and has had a research article accepted for publication in the prestigious journal Landscape Research.  Kimberly is also a trained instructor in Urban Plan, the program designed by the Urban Land Institute to teach urban planning to high school students. Currently, Kimberly is studying graphic design part time at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Prior to joining Calthorpe Associates in 2004, Kimberly worked as an assistant planner for the Canadian cities of Toronto and Waterloo and for the District Municipality of Muskoka (Canada) where she focused on waterfront planning in a popular tourist region.  As a landscape designer Kimberly developed her skills at Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin Lopez Reinhart in Orlando, Florida and at the GSP Planning Group in Ontario, Canada.
Kimberly is particularly interested in design in the international context.  She has worked for the Canadian International Development Agency as a Community Development Planner in El Salvador and has also completed a tourism master plan for a Maori tribe in New Zealand.  At Calthorpe Associates she has contributed to projects in Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Malaysia, and Australia.