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Patrick M. Condon has over 35 years of experience in sustainable urban design as both a professional city planner and a teacher and researcher. He started his academic career in 1985 at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of British Columbia in 1992. After acting as the director of the Landscape Architecture program, he became the James Taylor Chair in Landscape and Liveable Environments. In that capacity, he has worked to advance sustainable urban design in scores of jurisdictions in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Condon has also led the Sustainability by Design project by the Design Centre for Sustainability. For over 20 years, the Design Centre and James Taylor Chair worked on a variety of projects and books to contribute to healthier and more sustainable urban landscapes.

Frederick Steiner is dean and Paley Professor, as well as faculty co‐director of The Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He has written, edited, or co‐edited 22 books, including Design with Nature Now and Megaregions and America’s Future (both from Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, distributed by Columbia University Press). He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

Robert Ryan, FASLA, FCELA, is professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses on green infrastructure planning, research issues, and environment and behavior. His research explores place attachment as a motivation for urban green space stewardship and the role of research within landscape architecture firms. He is the co‐author of the award‐winning book With People in Mind: Design and Management of Everyday Nature (Island Press, 1998), as well as Planning for Climate Change (Routledge, 2019) and over forty journal articles and book chapters.