Planning and Urban Form Fellowships, 2011–2012

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 the late Kingsbury Browne, a Lincoln Fellow in 1980, whose work led to the creation of the Land Trust Alliance (LTA). Now a national organization of about 1,800 land trust members, LTA 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. This annual fellowship program is administered by the Lincoln Institute's Department of Planning and Urban Form.

  • Audrey C. Rust
  • Kingsbury Browne Fellow, 2011-2012
  • Audrey C. Rust, president emeritus of the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) based in Palo Alto, California, was named the most recent recipient of the combined fellowship and conservation leadership award in October at the Land Trust Alliance’s Rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As executive director and then president of POST from 1987 to 2011, Rust partnered with public agencies and private landowners as the land trust protected more than 53,000 acres of open space lands in San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. The Saving the Endangered Coast campaign, launched in 2001, is the largest land protection initiative ever completed by a local U.S. land trust. She graduated from the University of Connecticut at Storrs with a B.A. in English and education. She has served on the boards of numerous local, state, and national organizations, primarily in the conservation and housing arenas, and she has received numerous awards for community service.
  • Jay Espy
  • Kingsbury Browne Fellow, 2010-2011
  • Director, Northern Rockies Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, Helena, Montana
  • Jay Espy has been a pioneer in collaborative and large-scale land conservation for over 20 years. He joined the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation as its first executive director in January 2008. The Sewall Foundation is a private, grant making foundation focusing on conservation, animal welfare and social needs. Jay previously served as president of Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a statewide land conservation organization. During his tenure, Maine Coast Heritage Trust accelerated its land protection efforts along Maine’s entire coast, conserving more than 125,000 acres and establishing the Maine Land Trust Network, which helps build capacity of local land trusts throughout Maine.

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 post-professional awards for independent study at Harvard University. 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 with the Lincoln Institute’s Department of Planning and Urban Form.

  • Peter Park
  • Planning Director, Denver, Colorado
  • Trained as an architect and urban designer, Peter Park is the planning director in Denver, Colorado. He previously served in a similar role in Milwaukee. He has presided over the development of a new form-based zoning ordinance for Denver and has also led extensive efforts to engage citizens in planning activities. During his fellowship, Peter will research new methods for engaging citizens in the planning process and explore opportunities for replacing urban freeways with boulevards in city centers.

Planning and Urban Form Research Fellowship

  • Breece Robertson
  • National Conservation Vision and GIS Director, Trust for Public Land, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • Jad Daly
  • Climate Program Director, Trust for Public Land, Washington, DC
  • Brenda Faber
  • Foresite Inc. Consulting, Consultant to Trust for Public Land, Loveland, Colorado
  • Large Landscape
  • Many different types of large landscape projects (LLPs) have been completed or are currently underway across North America. Efforts are being made on the regional scale to identify LLPs and to provide systems where information can be obtained and utilized for large landscape planning. However, there is no continental-scale portal that brings information and tools into one platform for translation across multiple scales. The Trust for Public Land (TPL) identifies completed and current LLPs, existing tools, and databases available to support large-scale planning and the gaps that need to be filled to provide users with the resources needed to advance large landscape conservation planning. TPL convenes a select group of partners to analyze the findings from this analysis. Using this research, TPL makes recommendations for the design of a continental-scale portal that aid in tracking, evaluating, and advancing large landscape conservation initiatives. Conservation planners, policy makers, and private partners (e.g., conservation NGOs) are the primary audiences for this portal. The findings are disseminated at conferences and strategic meetings and through existing portals and conservation-related Web sites.