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Biography

Kent is an urban planner/designer with twenty years’ experience working in the urban planning, landscape architecture, and real estate services fields in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. 

Kent is one of the leading Walking and Cycling specialists in Auckland. He works through the design scales from regional network planning down to detailed designs at street level. 

Kent has particular expertise in liveable street design, public transport integration, and cycleway planning and design. Kent holds a Masters of Urban Design from the University of Auckland and a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning from the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

Kent’s unique experience allows him to bring together inputs from transport planning, urban design, walking, cycling and public transportation to improve project designs and decisions. He has been the technical and project lead for several key strategic cycleway projects in Auckland, including the recent Cycling Programme Business Case (2018 – 2028) and the Auckland Street Design Guide. 

Kent is also working on several town centre redevelopments bringing his expertise in street design, parking, walking and cycling and public transport integration to support accessible, successful redevelopment projects.