In 2012 Catherine Vanderwaart interned with CNUdc, and she interviewed several of our active members. Read about the great work they do and their thoughts about DC. How did you get involved in new urbanism? I went to Georgia Tech, graduated in 1980 and moved to Houston to look for work because that’s where the jobs were at that time. I got a job with Hines, which was the biggest landlord in Houston and just beginning to expand nationally. With Hines I worked in Minneapolis,

In 2012 Catherine Vanderwaart interned with CNUdc, and she interviewed several of our active members. Read about the great work they do and their thoughts about DC. You’ve been involved with traditional town planning and new urbanism for your entire career. How did you get involved in it? I came to it through dissatisfaction with the built environment in DC. I came to the US to study. It was very difficult as a student to get around without a car, to understand and explore t

In 2012 Catherine Vanderwaart interned with CNUdc, and she interviewed several of our active members. Read about the great work they do and their thoughts about DC. How did you get involved in new urbanism? I was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for the HUD Office of Public Housing Investments during the last four years of the Clinton Administration, where I led HOPE VI and other Public Housing Capital Programs. New Urbanism redevelopment planning was a fundamental tenet of H