Armando Carbonell
Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design
Department of Urban Planning and Design
Armando Carbonell is Chairman of the Department of Planning and Urban Form at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been a design critic and/or lecturer at the GSD since 2000 and also co-teaches a planning studio at the University of Pennsylvania. Carbonell is the co-editor, with Terry Szold of M.I.T. of the volume Smart Growth: Form and Consequences. Prior to his appointment to the Lincoln Institute in 1999, Carbonell had been Executive Director of the Cape Cod Commission, a regional planning and land use regulatory agency. In 1986, he initiated Prospect: Cape Cod, the strategic planning project that led to the 1989 passage of the Cape Cod Commission Act. During 1992-1993, he held a Loeb Fellowship in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He chaired the National Academy of Sciences panel on groundwater vulnerability in 1991-1992. Carbonell was the 1999 recipient of the Distinguished Leadership/Service Award for Professional Planner, Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association for "distinguished practice, teaching and writing." He is a Member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and an Honorary Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK). He is also a member of the Forum for Urban Design in New York and the Loeb Fellowship Council at Harvard. Carbonell received his A.B. degree in geography from Clark University and was a Doctoral Fellow in geography at the Johns Hopkins University.