Charles R. Wolfe

Charles R. (Chuck) Wolfe has long provided a unique perspective on cities as a Santa Fe, Seattle, and London-based urbanist writer, photographer, land-use consultant, and attorney. He is a recent visiting/affiliate scholar at the Centre for the Future of Places at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a long-time affiliate associate professor at the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington in Seattle. During the summer of 2018, Wolfe was a Fulbright Specialist under the auspices of the Australian-American Fulbright Commission, based at the Cairns and Townsville campuses of James Cook University. Wolfe is the author of Sustaining a City's Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021), Seeing the Better City (Island Press, 2017; finalist for a 2018 UK National Urban Design Award), and Urbanism Without Effort (Island Press, 2013, 2019 rev. ed.). He is a frequent podcast, radio guest, and in-person and online speaker. He has regularly contributed to several publications on urban development, including GeekWire, CityLab, The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, CityMetric, Governing, and Planetizen. He practiced land use and environmental law in the United States for 34 years.