Conference Welcome - Nico Larco and Niels Van Oort

Nico Larco, AIA is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Oregon where he is the Director of the Urbanism Next Center and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Institute. Prof. Larco assists cities and projects with future-proofing, has run workshops and charrettes nationally and internationally on this topic, and is currently coordinating work in this area with various municipal and state agencies across North America and in Europe. He also recently published the Sustainable Urban Design Handbook - available here: https://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Urban-Design-Handbook/dp/1138945692.

Niels van Oort (1978), the conference chair of Urbanism Next 2024, works as an associate professor Public Transport and Shared Mobility at Delft University of Technology and is co-director of the Smart Public Transport Lab. He has been involved in public transport projects and research for over 20 years. His main fields of expertise are public transport planning and data-driven design, with special interest in the passenger perspective, multimodality and societal impact. Learn more about his research, courses and (media) exposure via https://nielsvanoort.weblog.tudelft.nl/