Partners

RS2030 works in partnership with likeminded individuals and organizations when interests overlap, including the following individuals and organizations.

Charles M. Kelley Jr., AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB, founding Principal, Green Urban Designs (GUD).

Charles and Scott met at an EcoCity Institute Training in 2014 at a reception that ZGF Architects hosted for the Training. ZGF was one of EcoCity’s founding partners and collaborators. Scott was impressed with Charles’ innovative practice that was simply normal for him. Scott invited Charles to present his regenerative design “toolbox” to SF Planning, and they have been collaborating on presentations and projects since then. Charles’ launched Green Urban Design (GUD), to focus his practice on using integrated design and technology to leverage multiple planning and design objectives across mobility, watersheds, energy, water, land use, and open space systems to create regenerative neighborhoods. In so doing, marginalized and disinvested communities build their capacity to promote health and wellbeing by re-configuring their neighborhoods.

With 37 years of experience in architecture, urban design, and master planning, Charles brings his award-winning experiences to every scale of planning and design in the making of institutional and municipal places in the US and across the Pacific Rim. As a former Principal at ZGF Architects, he continues to serve as a strategic advisor on design that incorporates community aspirations. Recent projects include:

  • Paju Medical Cluster, Paju-si, South Korea.

  • Albina Vision Trust Community Investment Plan, Portland, Oregon.

  • Reconnecting Community Planning Grant, Portland, Oregon.

  • Tetiive Project Regenerative Community Plan, Tetiive, Ukraine.

  • Civic Commons Resilience Plan, Yachats, Oregon.

With RS2030, collaborations have included

  • Regenerative Design Toolkit presentation to SF Planning, 2016.

  • EcoDistrict Summit Presentation, Regenerative San Francisco, Minneapolis MN, 2018.

  • APA National Conference Presentation Regenerative City Sustainability, San Francisco.

  • Presentation session on Regeneratve Urbanism, EcoCity2019 World Summit, Vancouver B.C.

  • White Paper on Regenerative Urbanism, EcoCity2022 World Summit, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

  • The Regenerative City Symposium, Sept. 2024, with the American Planning Association Webcast.

Current collaboration involves formulating and offering Regenerative Systems Sustainability Planning Advisory and Consulting Services for the Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group (URAG) International Division, American Planning Association, including preparation of the Environmental Sustainability Planning Guidelines (link), particularly Part 2, Regenerative City (link).