BIO
"At the heart of our efforts to transform blighted communities into ecologically sustainable communities, we must first celebrate cultural and ethnic diversity, respect our natural ecosystem, and utilize renewable resourced building materials.
It is incumbent upon design professionals to engage stakeholders in a design process, that democratizes research, planning, and decision-making."
Arthur James III is a longtime catalyst for social, economic and environmental justice and a tireless advocate for ecologically and socially balanced communities. Arthur is a pro-active, creative thinker with more than 25 years of experience planning and designing sustainable habitats.
Arthur is currently the staff Environmental Designer/Planner for the The Rosenthall Group of Jackson, Mississippi. He has also served as a designer of housing and health care facilities with St. Louis architectural firm Richard Franklin and Associates and has extensive background in professional environmental and community design consulting in the San Francisco Bay area
His commitment to environmental restoration and public advocacy was perfectly suited for his job from as Program Manager of the Urban Greening and Restoration Program of the Urban Habitat Program, where he helped determine strategies and assumed leadership of the nascent environmental justice movement. During this period he co-founded the People of Color Greening Network, whose mission was to create organic community gardens and green spaces in minority neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area.
It is incumbent upon design professionals to engage stakeholders in a design process, that democratizes research, planning, and decision-making."
Arthur James III is a longtime catalyst for social, economic and environmental justice and a tireless advocate for ecologically and socially balanced communities. Arthur is a pro-active, creative thinker with more than 25 years of experience planning and designing sustainable habitats.
Arthur is currently the staff Environmental Designer/Planner for the The Rosenthall Group of Jackson, Mississippi. He has also served as a designer of housing and health care facilities with St. Louis architectural firm Richard Franklin and Associates and has extensive background in professional environmental and community design consulting in the San Francisco Bay area
His commitment to environmental restoration and public advocacy was perfectly suited for his job from as Program Manager of the Urban Greening and Restoration Program of the Urban Habitat Program, where he helped determine strategies and assumed leadership of the nascent environmental justice movement. During this period he co-founded the People of Color Greening Network, whose mission was to create organic community gardens and green spaces in minority neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Arthur collaborated with famed environmentalist and Urban Habitat Program Director Carl Anthony to publish the Race, Poverty and the Environment reader.
Before joining Urban Habitat, Arthur worked for the city of Oakland, where he worked in the Neighborhood Design Division and Community Economic Development. Arthur also served as a housing analyst and project manager for a 125-unit, affordable housing project for the Department of Community Development of the city of Berkeley, California. He also served as a housing analyst with the Housing Authority in Berkeley. California.
As a consultant, for the Green Belt Alliance , Arthur convened a round table of local community greening activist to participate in a U.S. National Park Service study on the social impacts of community greening efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also served as a project manger the Urban Creeks Council's urban creek restoration and trail-side park project in a low-income Latino neighborhood in East Oakland, California.
He has advised and consulted on eco-village, green planning and water and community development projects in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
For well more than a decade, Arthur has served as a director or adviser to several community-based non profits, including Urban Ecology, Plant Closures Project, Urban Habitat Program, Global CPR Service, and the East Bay Economic Development Alliance.
He is an occasional contributor to the web zine Nature of Cities.
Arthur has a B.A. in economics and environmental studies from Antioch University and a M.A. in architecture from University of California at Berkeley.
Arthur and Carl taught Race, Poverty and the Environment class at UC Berkeley.
Arthur also lectured on urban environmental leadership and community development at New College of California.
Before joining Urban Habitat, Arthur worked for the city of Oakland, where he worked in the Neighborhood Design Division and Community Economic Development. Arthur also served as a housing analyst and project manager for a 125-unit, affordable housing project for the Department of Community Development of the city of Berkeley, California. He also served as a housing analyst with the Housing Authority in Berkeley. California.
As a consultant, for the Green Belt Alliance , Arthur convened a round table of local community greening activist to participate in a U.S. National Park Service study on the social impacts of community greening efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He also served as a project manger the Urban Creeks Council's urban creek restoration and trail-side park project in a low-income Latino neighborhood in East Oakland, California.
He has advised and consulted on eco-village, green planning and water and community development projects in The Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
For well more than a decade, Arthur has served as a director or adviser to several community-based non profits, including Urban Ecology, Plant Closures Project, Urban Habitat Program, Global CPR Service, and the East Bay Economic Development Alliance.
He is an occasional contributor to the web zine Nature of Cities.
Arthur has a B.A. in economics and environmental studies from Antioch University and a M.A. in architecture from University of California at Berkeley.
