E M Risse is a regional strategist and the principal of SYNERGY/Planning, an Enterprise which specializes in planning and implementing functional and sustainable human settlement patterns.
Mr. Risse has spent much of his professional career planning, designing, delivering and managing the governance of projects at Community, Village, Neighborhood and Cluster scales where citizens desire to live, work, seek services and participate in leisure activities. Urban enclaves in the Washington-Baltimore New Urban Region for which he has provided these services have resulted in the construction of $2.5-billion in facilities and $1.5-billion in infrastructure (2006 dollars). There are well over 50,000 residents and 20,000 workers occupying over 75 million square feet of building space in the components of human settlement for which he provided professional services in the Region.
Nationally, E M Risse has planned 36 major projects in 13 states which at build out will provide Jobs / Housing / Services / Recreation / Amenity for over 600,000 citizens on over 150,000 acres of land.
For 45 years, Dr. Risse has been carrying out strategic and tactical planning for the development and conservation of major land parcels and for infrastructure to serve these activities. He is the designer of community governance structures and multi-level land-use control systems including the one protecting the six-million acre Adirondack Park in New York State. Over four plus decades, Risse has been assisting Enterprises, Institutions and Agencies create functional human settlement patterns at Community, SubRegional and Regional scales.
Prof. Risse is the author of over 200 studies, articles, essays, reports and books on human settlement pattern and transportation. He has framed a science-based unified field theory of human settlement which he articulated in his books, The Shape of the Future and TRILO-G: FOUNDATIONS, BRIDGES, ACTION. LINER NOTES for both books can be found in the Publications section by clicking here . Mr. Risse is the architect of The Third Way, the goal of which is to resolve the stalemate between Business-As-Usual / Mass OverConsumption and misguided growth control / NYMBYism.
Dr. Risse’s graduate-level teaching experience includes comprehensive planning, transportation strategies, land development, planning law, history of urban settlement, the process of urban change and planning for Regional sustainability. He has held faculty positions in the University of Virginia’s graduate planning program, George Mason Law School and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture. In addition, he with his wife have taught a graduate-level and continuing-education course titled the New Urban Region® at several universities.
Dr. Risse’s academic background includes forestry, physics, mathematics, architecture, philosophy, law, land development and comprehensive planning. He holds a BA in Mathematics from the University of Montana and JD and LLB degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
very good article! thanks again for all the effort that you put into it.
I have mixed feelings about this because the HR/TW region has had AMPLE OPPORTUNITY to get involved in these issues but they don’t want to pay ….
and so basically they’ve sat there and threatened to hold their breath until the State “did something”.
well.. this is what happens when you stand back and demand that the state “do something”.
I say let them stew in their own juices on this.
It’s not good the way that PPP “works”…at the least the public should have been told the tolls that were under consideration…
…but here’s the problem.. if they told the public more about the project and the costs and the tolls.. guess what would have happened?
that’s right big bad opposition…to delay, obfuscate and ultimately kill the effort.
so what can be done?
well.. McDonnell took the bull by the horns and took off…
now the whining begins….
I have no patience with those folks.. they want big expensive infrastructure but they don’t want to pay for it.