Charles Bohl Email & Phone Number

Dr. Charles Bohl is the Tony Goldman Director of Real Estate Development and Urbanism (MRED+U) and a tenured Full Professor at the University of Miami’s School of Architecture. Dr. Bohl is the founding Director of the MRED+U program, established in 2008.Dr. Bohl is an expert on place making, mixed-use development, the public process for planning and community design, and curriculum design. He is the author of Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets and Urban Villages, a best-selling book published by the Urban Land Institute. He co-edited (w/ Jean-Francois Lejuene) the book Sitte, Hegemann, And The Metropolis: Modern Civic Art And International Exchanges (Routledge).Research and academic programs carried out by Dr. Bohl have been supported by more than $4.2 million provided by major foundations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Fannie Mae Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the Urban Land Institute. Dr. Bohl serves on the Governance Committee of the 1300-member ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean District Council, where he previously served as Chair (2015-17). He also served as Chair of the Florida Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism from 2010-2012. Dr. Bohl was elected by the faculty to serve as Speaker of the School of Architecture Council for three successive terms (2017-2020).Prior to joining the University of Miami Professor Bohl was a Senior Research Associate at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies, where he established the Smart Growth and the New Economy Program and served as the Senior Fellow for the Weiss Urban Livability Program. Dr. Bohl holds a doctorate in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lectures and consults widely on mixed-use development, place making and community building in the U.S. and abroad.Specialties: Placemaking, real estate, urban planning, urban design, town centers and mixed-use development.

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