Alex Krieger, FAIA, is Professor in Practice of Urban Design at the GSD, where he was Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design from 1998 to 2004. He currently teaches the Urban Design Proseminar and the studio: Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube. In previous semsters he has taught the seminar The Regional City: Values and Ethics in Contemporary Urbanism, the Detroit Research Seminar, the Detroit Studio, and the studio Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment - Honolulu, Hawaii.

He is a founding principal of Chan Krieger & Associates. His recent work includes urban design and planning projects in Boston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Des Moines, Louisville, Minneapolis, Mt. Lebanon, Pittsburgh, Providence, Washington, D.C., and Worcester. Other projects include: master plans for Boston's Seaport District and City Hall Plaza; campus plans for Brandeis University, Knox College, and Rhode Island School of Design; the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport; the Carl J. Shapiro Clinical Care Center for Beth Israel Hospital in Boston; and an athletic facility for the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge. The firm's work has received prizes in eight national competitions, two Progressive Architecture awards and thirteen AIA awards.

Best Practices presentation talking point
Given the specific challenges and existing conditions along this portion of the Delaware River, what type of urban design plan do we need to create our 21st century vision for the waterfront?  How do we weave together a disparate series of uses and ownership into a coherent vision?  What are the planning models of excellence that we can look to that will help us imagine creating a humane and urbane civic armature that allows for a multiplicity of building types, including two casinos, limited public access and working industrial and port facilities?