Kingsbury Browne Fellowship & Lincoln/Loeb Fellowship, 2009–2010

The Department of Planning and Urban Form is interested in planning and the built environment, with a particular focus on issues related to regional planning and collaboration, public and private interests in the use of land, and land conservation and the environment. The department awards two annual fellowships for research on these topics.

Kingsbury Browne Fellowship

The Lincoln Institute established the Kingsbury Browne Fellowship in association with the Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership Award in 2006. That award honors Kingsbury Browne, a Lincoln Institute Fellow in 1980, whose work led to the creation of the Land Trust Alliance. Now a national organization of about 1,800 land trust members, the Land Trust Alliance trains thousands of conservation leaders, encourages the passage of legislation on land conservation, and develops standards and practices to professionalize and safeguard work on land trusts.

  • Jamie Williams
  • Director, Northern Rockies Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Helena, Montana
  • Jamie Williams is a leader in the effort to protect major landscapes and wildlife linkages in the Intermountain West. He joined The Nature Conservancy in 1992 and has earned a reputation for setting the standard for "community-based" conservation, in the ongoing effort to protect important forest lands in the Northern Rockies, across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Canada. Most recently he helped The Nature Conservancy, in partnership with the Trust for Public Land and local communities, secure a deal with the major landowner Plum Creek to purchase 310,000 acres of timberland in western Montana, to protect it as working forests for wildlife, public access and sustainable timber management.

    Williams was The Nature Conservancy's Montana state director for nine years, where he focused the program on conserving Montana's largest, most intact landscapes through strong community-based programs and private-public partnerships. He helped start and sponsor several collaborative land trusts groups focused on leveraging each other's resources toward common conservation goals, including the creation of the Montana Association of Land Trusts and the Heart of the Rockies Collaborative. As Northwest Colorado Program Manager for The Nature Conservancy, he spearheaded a community-based conservation effort to conserve the Yampa River and agricultural land base as well. Before that he worked on the wild and scenic designation of the Farmington River in western New England, which was tailored for local management. A graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he is a former instructor for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) and also a river guide. At the Lincoln Institute, his work will focus on large-scale landscapes, multiple stakeholders in land conservation, and regional collaboration.

Lincoln/Loeb Fellowship

The Loeb Fellowship was established in 1970 through the generosity of the late John L. Loeb, Harvard College '24. Based at the Graduate School of Design, the program offers ten annual postprofessional awards for independent study at Harvard. The Fellowship is a unique opportunity to nurture the leadership potential of the most promising men and women in design and other professions related to the built and natural environment. Each year one Fellow is selected to be the Lincoln/Loeb Fellow and to work jointly with the Institute on special projects.

  • Gil Kelley
  • Independent urban and strategic planning consultant, Portland, Oregon
  • Gil Kelley is the former director of planning for the City of Portland, Oregon (2000–2009) and director of planning and development for the City of Berkeley, California (1988–1998). In Portland, he was tasked by the Mayor and Council to develop and lead a range of cross-agency initiatives for the long-term sustainability of the city as it accommodates substantial growth and change over the next several decades. He was responsible for developing plans for the South Waterfront and Pearl districts, and advancing a new framework for neighborhood planning built around the "20-minute neighborhood" and effective citizen engagement. In Berkeley, Mr. Kelley worked to revitalize the city's waterfront, commercial corridors, and industrial areas, and to open city-university dialogue and coordination. He also consolidated permitting functions and prepared an economic development strategy for the City.

    Mr. Kelley is now an independent consultant and a senior research fellow at the Institute for Portland Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University. He lectures on climate change and urban form, municipal- and metropolitan-scale strategic planning, and downtown/waterfront revitalization. He teaches a class on planning and negotiation each fall at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands for senior-level European planning professionals.