Chuck Wolfe is a global urbanism influencer, author, photographer, former Visiting and Guest Affiliate Scholar at the Center for Future of Places (KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm), recent Fulbright Specialist in Australia for an award-winning project, and long-time American environmental/land-use lawyer. He holds a graduate degree in regional planning and has 37 years of experience in environmental, land use, and real estate law. He has held leadership positions in both the legal and planning professions. He has represented public and private clients in property redevelopment, regulatory entitlements, drafting and brownfield remediation issues throughout the United States.He is Founder and Principal Advisor of Seeing Better Cities Group, has practiced at several law firms, and serves as a long-time Affiliate Associate Professor in the College of the Built Environments at the University of Washington, where he has taught land use law and contributed to major research efforts addressing urban center and brownfield redevelopment. He has served on the Board of Futurewise. He is former Vice Chair, Fund Development, and former Treasurer of the Northwest District Council/Urban Land Institute, and served on its Managing and Advisory Boards. He has written regularly for many publications, including GeekWire, The Atlantic, The Atlantic Cities/CityLab, Governing, CityMetric, Planetizen, The Huffington Post, Grist, and Crosscut. He blogs at sustainingplace.com and myurbanist.com. His new book, Sustaining a City's Culture and Character, was released by Rowman & Littlefield in the United States and internationally during Winter/Spring, 2021. His previous books, Urbanism Without Effort (Island Press, 2019/2013), and Seeing the Better City (Island Press 2017), are still readily available in paperback and electronic form. Specialties: Advisory services addressing urban growth, culture, character, and change to the built environment and related project decisions, policy, plans, and regulation; environmental/land use law; real estate law; innovative infill redevelopment; liability protection for the redevelopment of "brownfield" properties.
Listed skills include Land Use, Environmental Law, Legal Writing, Sustainable Development, and 31 others.