Mike Lydon, Street Plans Collaborative

Mike Lydon is the founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. Before launching TSPC in 2009, Lydon worked for Smart Growth Vermont, the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, and Ann Arbor’s GetDowntown Program. From 2006 – 2009 Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company, an international leader in the practice of smart growth planning, design, and research techniques.

As a planner, writer, and activist, Mike’s work has appeared in or been featured by CNN Headline News, Planetizen, Next American City, New Urban News, Planning Magazine, the Miami Herald, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Mike has also collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing the recently published Smart Growth Manual. Mike remains a regular contributor to Planetizen and was selected in 2009 as one of thirty four Urban Vanguards for the Next American City, a magazine created for and by a new generation of urban thinkers and leaders.