Jonathan Barnettis a Fellow of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning, and former director of the Urban Design Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Designing the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale, and, with Larry Beasley, of Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs, as well as many other books and articles about city and regional design.
Matthijs Bouw, is a Professor of Practice in Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the McHarg Center Fellow for Risk and Resilience at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a founder of One Architecture & Urbanism, an award-winning architecture and planning firm, established in 1995, with main offices in New York City and Amsterdam. His projects in the U.S. include continuing planning work for Climate-Ready Boston and climate-resilience plans for New York City.