Every day, thousands of people learn about Bicycle City (over 152,000 in July and over 144,000 in June). Many of our visitors have contributed to our ideas and plans to build an eco-friendly, car-free community. Nearly 850 people have submitted a form saying they are interested in living in Bicycle City. We welcome your comments and ideas and know that as we proceed with this project we owe much - to many people. Your ideas inspire us to continually learn new things about our environment, our communities and the many ways that we can improve our approach to this exciting project. It would not be possible for us to include every person whose input has influenced the plans for Bicycle City.
Our contributors include: Norman Arragones, Jenya Artsybasheva, Karen Ballard, Joyce and Mike Ballard, James Bartos, Alma Bartos, Chris Bitting, Angela Bronzie, Adam Burton, Sue Cao, Nat Cohen, Mike Collins, Scott Cronin, Sean Davidson, Philip Denning, Kyle Dilts, Stephanie Dohar, Susan French, Saad Ghosn, Josh Freund, Nicole Gula, Larry Gullickson, Alp and Margarita Guten, Kim Hoodin, Ed Howard, Rich Jessup, Beau Johnson, Pete Jones, Kara Kelly, John Kennedy, Karl and Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Ryan Koster, Mary Ann Lederer, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis, Julie McCarthy, Kelly McCarthy-Mellett, Brian Mellett, Beth and Julie Mellett, Jim Mellett, Marty Mellett, Steve Morganthaller, Amy Moss, Marlee Myers, Dugan Murphy, Mike Murphy, Mary Jane Newborn, Ed Neubauer, Frank Nickerson, John and Jen Palen, Nathan Pond, Nancy Rexroth, Alex Singer, Cathy Sivak, Logan Smith, Eric Uphoff, Tina and Jeremy Uphoff, Dave Van Doren, Joe Washington, Roye White, and Bob Witanowski. We apologize if we missed your name - please complete the feedback form to the right with a reminder to include it or a request to remove it if you prefer anonymity. We want to thank everyone who has contributed to Bicycle City with their work, partnership, support, and ideas.
Listed below are some the members of the Bicycle City LLC team, with a little information on each of us. We provide this here not to present ourselves as the only people who will be part of creating the first Bicycle City, but just to tell you who we are, in case you’d like to know. Have a healthy day!
Ward Allebach
Ward is an advisor to Bicycle City, offering many years of environmental experience and sharp business acumen to our organization as we forge ahead in making our first community a reality. Ward is an adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies Department at the University of Pittsburgh and was a co-founder of PWP, LLC. Prior to his work with PWP, Ward worked for the County of Orange Environmental Management Agency and also was a founder of Green Networking for Orange County, Orange County Interfaith Coalition for the Environment and the California Regional Environmental Education Council. He also directed the publication of "The Environmental Guide to Orange County" in 1996. Ward earned a Master of Science in Environmental Studies from California State University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Ruth Dilts
Ruth is our communications person. She’s also a wife and a mother of three children and many pets. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and of the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She worked as an Art Director/Producer at a full-service advertising agency (DDF&M) for nine years. Ruth joined Tollgrade Communications Inc. as Director of Corporate Communications prior to the Company’s IPO in 1995, and continued with Tollgrade through the IPO process, the tech boom and subsequent market decline. She managed or was involved with all aspects of marketing communications, event planning internal, media and public communications. She joined the Bicycle City team in 2007.
Erin Hasinger
Erin is our writer and director of content for our web site (with lots of input from Joe M.) She’s also a committed environmentalist. She will recycle almost anything! She earned a bachelor of arts in English from the Pennsylvania State University and then lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for four years, working in communications for a non-profit educational service agency. She returned to Pittsburgh and worked in public relations for a real estate agency and then started writing for PWP in 2005. She is currently working toward an M.A. in corporate communication at Duquesne University, while she works full-time as a member of Bicycle City.
Joseph Landolina
Joe is the money guy, a husband, father and serious Bob Dylan fan. He graduated from St. Vincent College in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and from the Duquesne University School of Law where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1983. Joe is licensed to practice law and accounting in Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Bicycle City team, Joe was manager of the tax department for a public accounting firm for 23 years, where he performed various income tax compliance and planning services for individuals, corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts, estates, nonprofit organizations, and retirement plans.
Anne Lusk
Anne is an advisor to Bicycle City. Anne has a Ph.D. in architecture and a 25-year history working on bicycle environments for all populations. She is a research fellow at Harvard School of Public Health and is currently studying 20 bicycle paths across the U.S. as part of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant. As an NIH grant recipient, over the next three years, she will compare ten highly frequented greenways with ten not highly frequented greenways to study the hypothesis that highly frequented greenways have destinations that serve human needs. Dr. Lusk has twenty-five years experience as a lecturer, writer, and researcher on a variety of topics related to historic preservation and greenways/multi-use paths.
Joe Mellett
Joe’s main roles are design and business development. He is a father, an avid bicyclist and a passionate advocate for animals and the environment. In 1986, as a member of Alpha Phi Omega (The National Service Fraternity), Joe and two friends organized and completed "4,200 Miles for Kids," a cross-country bicycle trip to raise money for Big Brothers and Sisters and United Cerebral Palsy. He is a member of EarthSave International and has traveled the world to research eco-friendly and other progressive communities and cities. He is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and Computer Systems Institute. Joe was a co-founder of PWP LLC (People Working for People), an online education directory business that had 126 online directory publications and received more than 1 million unique monthly visitors. PWP was acquired by Monster Worldwide (Monster.com) in 2006.
Kirstin Miller
Kirstin is an advisor to Bicycle City and serves as Ecocity Builders’ executive director. A former public school teacher, today Kirstin is an environmental activist and works to promote healthy ecology, presenting her ideas internationally, as well as writing for a number of publications on the environment, ecocities and urban ecology. She works to develop strategies for planning issues such as centers-oriented development and zoning overlay mapping. In 2008, Kirstin was lead organizer for "Ecocity World Summit," the 7th International Ecocity Conference in San Francisco. In 2005, she organized the "Green City Visions" conference as part of the United Nations World Environment Day events, and in 2004, she led a Berkeley community field trip with local leaders, including the mayor, to San Luis Obispo to visit their successful downtown creek restoration and greenway project. Kirstin currently leads the development of Ecocity Builders’ programs and projects and teaches a course on the ecological city structure at the University of California Berkeley Extension.
Shawn Mummert
Shawn directs web strategy and architecture, building and optimizing the Bicycle City web site. While Shawn is a technical jack-of-all-trades, his truest love is the arts, particularly theatre. Both of Shawn's degrees are in English Literature—a B.A. from Nebraska Wesleyan University and an M.A. from Miami University. Before joining Bicycle City, Shawn had an extensive history consulting in both corporate and non-profit environments, including projects for AT&T Canada, Securicor Canada, The Network Management Group, and Cincinnati Bell.
Richard Register
Considered to be one of the world's foremost authors and theorists on ecological planning and design, Richard is one of Bicycle City's advisors.
In 1975, Richard was the founding president of Urban Ecology. He founded Ecocity Builders in 1992, and today is the organization's president. He has spoken on the subject of ecocity development worldwide, including four United Nation's environmental conferences. His books include Ecocities:
Building Cities in Balance with Nature; Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthier Future; and Another Beginning. Richard was a speaker at the 7th International Ecocity Conference in San Francisco (2008); Keynote Speaker at the 6th in Bangalore, India (2006); co-convener of the 5th in Shenzhen, China (August 2002); advisor to the 3rd in Yoff, Senegal (1996); advisor to the 2nd in Adelaide, Australia (1992); and convened the 1st International Ecocity Conference (1990). Approximately 1,800 people and 325 speakers to date have been involved in these events. Richard is widely credited as having coined the term "ecocity."
