Name: Rex

Bio: Rex Curry has combined a career in urban planning and community development with teaching and public service. From 1980-2004 he served as the Associate Director of the Pratt Institute Center for Community Development. Most recently, he completed an extensive planning report on Washington Heights and Inwood (CD12) in Manhattan NY, and the first phases of a Strategic Plan for the City College Architecture Center (CUNY). He developed the national Association for Community Design as its president for over ten years. Beginning in 2005 to the present, he has served as the Chairman of the Planning and Urban Design Committee of the American Planning Institute New York Chapter. He has served as an advisor to the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History and as a member of its Board of Directors. Curry served as Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at Pratt Institute, where he has taught several planning courses. He was a fellow of the Centre for Housing Studies of Glasgow University’s Adam Smith School of Economics where he participated in lectures, workshops, and presentations on community development practices. He has organized and taught community development practices, urban design, planning, and architecture. He recently authored an extensive research report for the Institute for Urban Design on public service planning and urban design practices at thirty major universities in the United States offering graduate degrees in Urban Design. He was also a major contributor to a Princeton University Press publication, Good Deeds, Good Design and to an recent article published by McGraw-Hill’s “Time Saver” urban design standards series on creating community design centers as an alternative strategic planning and architecture practice.