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Personal Details

   Name:                         Peter Swift, PE
   Address:                      540 Main St
   Town/City:                   Gold Hill, CO
   Country:                      USA
   Postal or Zip code:        80302
   Phone number:              720-406-7487
   Email address:              phswi@aol.com

Education

Kendall College; Chicago:Uww:Brown University, U. Colorado, Boulder. Fellowship; U. Miami
Marine Corps Intelligence Training Program (G2), USMC, Cherry Point, NC
Egyptian Philology, UWW, Brown University, Providence, RI
Civil Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Stochastic and Continuous Simulation Hydrology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO (Certification Program)

Academic

Occasional Lecturer, Univ. of Colorado, Denver and Boulder, Andrews University
Assoc. Prof. Graduate School of Design, Univ. of Colorado, Denver, Fall semester, 2016
Research Fellow, 2002, Univ. of Miami School of Architecture and Design; Knight Community Fellowship. The proposed research centers around the development of a system to evaluate New Urbanist projects based on historical American urban precedent and the CNU Charter.

Expert Witness

Accepted by the 8th District Federal Court of Appeals in matters of transportation and traffic engineering.

Professional Registration

Professional Engineer, several states — please inquire.

Military

1967-68 United States Marine Corps Aviation Intelligence (G2), Top Secret and Crypto Clearance

Work History

1969 — Staunton and Freeman Consulting Engineers, New York, NY, Civil Design/Drafting
1972 — India Imports, Providence, RI, Carpenter
1975 — Independent, Carpenter, Washington and RI
1976 — L. A. Garofalo, Inc., Providence, RI, Civil Design Drafting
1978 — Costin Engineering, Denver, CO., Civil Design and Project Manager
1980 — McCarty Engineering Consultants, Longmont, CO, Senior Project Manager
1985 — City of Longmont, CO, Civil Engineer II, Project Engineer, Chair Public Improvement Review Committee, Developer Contract Administrator
1988 — Owner, Swift and Associates, Engineers and Town Planners, Longmont, CO
2005 — Mid Atlantic Enterprises, Erbil, Iraq; Director of Town Planning
2007 — Owner, Swift and Associates, Engineers and Town Planners, Longmont, CO

Public Service

Chairman, Gold Hill Town Council, 2013-2016
Transportation Advisory Committee, Vice Chair, Longmont, CO, 1984-1988
Planning and Zoning Commission, Vice Chair, Longmont, CO, 1990-1994
Airport Advisory Committee, Member, Longmont, CO, 1988-1991
Co-Chair, Urban Design Task Force, Congress for the New Urbanism

Select Publications

American Planning Association, 4 Corners Conference, 1997, “The Engineer as Generalist at the Turn of the Century”
Congress for the New Urbanism, 1997, Denver, Co., “Residential Street Typology and Injury Accident Frequency"
NU Council Report V, “A Warning to Europe”, April, 2003
NU Council Report VI, “An Analysis of One Way Couplets”, May, 2004
Author of chapter on pedestrian friendly street design in the “Planning and Urban Design Standards” from the American Planning Association
Translation editor of “Handbuch Der Architektur”, 1907, J. Stuben (Chapters 6 and 7 completed).
Translation editor of “Architecture Bible”, 2001, Leon and Rob Krier
Contributing author; “Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares; A Context Sensitive Approach”, ITE/CNU, 2009
Public Works Manual, co-author, 2017

Memberships

Congress for the New Urbanism, Egypt Exploration Society (UK)