Rick Abelson

Rick Abelson is a recognized leader in creating culturally significant land planning developments worldwide. His peers regard him as an original thinker and an internationally respected designer of large scale, renewable energy-based master planning, ecological industrial parks, destination attractions, mixed-use town centers, urban infill and new communities. In many cases, Rick's projects have become the catalyst for civic revitalization and his early participation and strategic forward-thinking adds immediate financial value to properties seeking optimum land definition. Rick has planned an estimated US$47B of new projects worldwide as both client and consultant. He is able to identify and reduce the inefficiencies and lower the costs of land planning and the design process to get the maximum benefit for stakeholders. Rick has been a featured speaker and panelist at international conferences and has published many articles and blog entries on land planning and urban design issues.