Since 1994, Kevin Klinkenberg, principal of 180 Urban Design & Architecture has explored his passion for walkable communities. A Fellow with the Knight Program in Community Building through the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) since 1997, Klinkenberg seeks the balance between the practical and the visionary in projects of all scales, from individual sites to neighborhoods to entire regions.

With 15 years of professional experience, Klinkenberg has become a Midwestern authority on planning and urban design, sitting on committees for the Mid America Regional Council, the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City and the Housing Choices Coalition. He is a frequent speaker on urban design, and in 2003, wrote a column for the Kansas City Star under “Midwest Voices.” His volunteer activities include serving as 2010 president of AIA/Kansas City and secretary of the board of the Urban Society of Kansas City.

Klinkenberg is also a faculty member for the Form-Based Codes Institute and the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Architecture & Urban Design. Additionally he has been active in setting new standards for context-sensitive transportation policy through the CNU and is working with several national colleagues on the formation of XNU,– the next stage in the development of New Urbanism.

Klinkenberg lives in a walkable neighborhood (and loves it) in Kansas City, MO.

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