Ben Hamilton-Baillie

Principal, Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd., Bristol, England

As principal of the consulting firm Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd., Hamilton-Baillie provides advice on traffic and urban renewal for a wide range of local authorities, government agencies, developers, and community groups. He is an architect, urban designer, and movement specialist.

Hamilton-Baillie serves on the expert team for the European Union project developing innovative concepts for street design and road safety known as “Shared Space,” with projects in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and The Netherlands. In addition, he recently provided research and drafting consultancy for the "Streets for All” guidance produced by English Heritage, and is an advisor to the UK 's Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.

Prior to his work at Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd., Hamilton-Baillie spent 13 years working in affordable housing, and he worked with Sustrans, a sustainable transportation organization, to create the United Kingdom 's National Cycle Network. He has since researched and promoted new approaches to traffic management and street design, and was awarded a Winston Churchill Traveling Fellowship in 2000.

He has taught extensively in the United Kingdom and United States, and was a Harvard University Loeb Fellow for 2001. Hamilton-Baillie qualified as an architect at Cambridge University.

For additional information, please see Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd.

Additional Events:
Monday, March 19: Ben Hamilton-Baillie, Hamilton-Baillie Associates, Shared Space – A Fresh Approach to Reconciling People, Places, and Traffic, 100 Rapson Hall, 5:45pm
Tuesday, March 20th: Cars and Communities Workshop on March 20, 2007. Click here for more information, Coffman Memorial Union, Campus Club Conference Room ABC

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