Rachel Berney is an urban design and planning scholar in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on the use of public spaces to support belonging, health, and mobility. She is the Faculty Director of Urban@UW, a transdisciplinary university-wide research initiative. Her books include Learning from Bogotá: Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space and Bicycle Urbanism: Re-imagining Bicycle Friendly Cities. Her work also appears in Planning Theory, Journal of Urban Design, the New Urban Design Companion, Just Urban Design, and other volumes.

Kim Selby is a planner and urban designer focused on the realization of livable neighborhoods, campuses and downtowns. She studies the context and land use of proposed development projects and how people will get to and from a new building, not just the immediate site. Understanding the arrival experience, the public realm and the ground floor functions helps her advocate for the whole environment and the 'place' that is being made. Kim leads a variety of planning projects from early community visioning through design, entitlement and phased implementation.

Ranu Singh is an architect, urban designer and planner working on research-based design and policy solutions that integrate sustainability, equity and well-being with functional and aesthetic design. A post-graduate from the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, she is currently practicing as urban designer and planner at NBBJ working on healthcare and educational campuses and waterfront planning. She has previously led work on housing, civic and cultural design, water planning among other projects. Ranu has authored several research papers, articles and books with her current research focusing on sustainable mobility solutions for South Asian cities.