Michael Angelo Larice, Ph.D., is an urban designer and educator teaching urban design, planning, urban studies, and pedagogy at the University of California, Berkeley. His studios involve design work for municipal governments and institutions. His academic work focuses on urban design practice, streetscape design, livability, social sustainability, and slum upgrading with recent projects on urban arterials and streetcar lines in America. With Professor Elizabeth Macdonald, he co-edited two editions of Routledge's Urban Design Reader.

Molly O'Neill Robinson is an urban designer and planner, founder of MOR Design & Planning, and a career-line instructor at the University of Utah's College of Architecture and Planning. With nine years leading Salt Lake City's urban design efforts, she spearheaded the Downtown Plan, reframing public engagement to include previously marginalized communities and establishing urban policy that supports downtown as a vibrant, livable neighborhood. Previously, she worked with award-winning teams at OLIN and Sasaki.

Allen Penniman weaves urban planning, design, and real estate development into the equitable revitalization of distressed urban communities. He practices as a senior urban planner at Agency Landscape + Planning and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania. Allen's work has involved reactivating commercial corridors, realizing housing development, sustaining post-industrial creative districts, and reinventing streets to support joyful public life.

Amanda Haycox has worked as both a statutory and strategic planner for state and local government as well as a planning consultant in the private sector. She began her career planning for public housing in the state government and later as a planner in the (then) state Department of Infrastructure. She worked as a planner in Eswatini, Southern Africa and as a planner in the Birmingham City Council in England. Amanda is currently the Coordinator of City Strategy and Place Planning Glen Eira City Council in Melbourne, Australia.