ID2013 - 10:45a - Graham Kaye-Eddie - Smart Urban Planning & the Future of Transportation

Graham Kaye-Eddie excels in urban design, planning and development management of cities and communities of populations ranging from 10,000 to 250,000 households. He has an advanced degree in Architecture in the field of Urban Design and Macro Systems Engineering along with forty years of practical management experience. Graham has taken part in many important transportation projects. He provided CALTRANS with realistic options for five proposed on/off-ramps to service the north/west side of downtown Los Angeles. He reversed the decision of the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission to locate future transit lines through the area while convincing the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and their planning consultant to also build a south bound off-ramp from the Harbor Freeway to provide access to future development north of the freeway. He helped come up with the city of Johannesburg Motorway System Concept with Dean John Fassler and Professor E.W.N. Mallows, University of Witwatersrand. He also helped plan the City of Grand Forks Air Terminal Facilities with Professor Peter Kamnitzer. He expanded the services of photogrammetry at VTN. He invented the surveillance method with the VTN Planning Department toward utilizing video cameras in securing the rights-of-way on power corridors throughout Wyoming and Montana. He is also a founding member of the California Advanced Transportation System.

Graham has experience in urban planning management. As Vice-President, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer of the parent Kuwait International Investment Company, he controlled a $1.2MM annual budget for pre-development, design, planning and marketing. As Vice President for Perreira AIA, he managed a variety of Urban Design Projects both locally and internationally. He managed the Urban/Regional Planning Division involved in providing information services on Urban Renewal, Airport Planning, Environmental Studies and Zoning Changes in Subdivision for Merchant Developers and Builders for Voorhees, Trindle and Nelson. From 1973-1975, he was the Director of Urban Planning for Environmental Systems International in the Planning and Environmental Services Division. After graduation from UCLA, he worked for the Urban Laboratory Research at UCLA in 1970. He was employed by Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendenhall in the Departments of Urban Economics and Urban Planning Division, gaining experience in new towns, communities, ski resorts, regional shopping centers, transportation planning and politics affecting projects.