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Land Lines: May 1999, Volume 11, Number 3

Armando Carbonell Named Senior Fellow (Land Lines Article)

Publication Date: May 1999

Inventory ID LLA990501; English

Article

Armando Carbonell has been appointed senior fellow of the Lincoln Institute to direct programs in the areas of common property, property rights, land conservation, environmental protection and growth management.

Prior to joining the Institute staff in late March, Carbonell was executive director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency founded in 1990 by an act of the Massachusetts legislature. He was also executive director of its predecessor agency, the Cape Cod Planning and Economic Development Commission. During almost 15 years of work on Cape Cod, he has been instrumental in designing and implementing regional programs in transportation, water resources, economic development, affordable housing, open space protection, community design, historic preservation and geographic information systems.

Carbonell has been a long-time member of the Lincoln Institute's Land Conservation in New England Study Group and is a fellow of the Institute for Urban Design in New York. He is also a board member of several regional organizations including the Environmental League of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Cape Cod Center for Sustainability. In the international sphere, he has participated in METROPLEX, the US/Japan Metropolitan Planning Exchange in Tokyo; the US/UK Countryside Exchange on issues of landscape protection and heritage tourism in Cornwall; a program on ecological design of golf courses at the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, France; and the evaluation of a controversial hydroelectric dam over the Danube River in Hungary.

As a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1992-93, Carbonell studied architecture, landscape architecture and conservation biology. He received an A.B. in Geography from Clark University and was a doctoral fellow in the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University. He has taught courses in urban and environmental analysis and policy and related subjects at Boston University and the University of Rhode Island.