Steve Coyle and Town Green

- Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, killed during the Westgate mall attack in 2014

Stephen J. Coyle, urban planner, architect, builder and developer, is an international expert in climate adaptation and resilient development from regional and community scale to the block and building.  Town Green is my international consultancy, where I collaborate with the finest planning, architecture, transportation, civil, and other consultancies around the world, plus developers, investors, governments, and NGO’s.  However, the United States is my home and primary work place though I worked in Africa, Nepal, Mongolia, Java, the West Bank and Vietnam for Jane Coyle's 501c3, the Vietnam Fund for Education, Music & Infrastructure, Inc. (www.vietnamemifund.org).  https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-coyle-9184038; https://www.facebook.com/stevejcoyle

I returned from Africa in 2016 after serving as the Director of Planning and Development for the Gabonese Agence Nationale des Grands Travaux/A.N.G.T.  My current tenure began in the United Kingdom and Africa, first for the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community, and then, ANGT:

• the creation of national, municipal, and neighborhood plans and zoning for re/development of communities in Gabon;

• providing the infrastructure, block, street and building design and regulatory codes; and

• finding and securing the financing and political support for public and private projects.  Example: I led an effort to house over 2,000 families displaced by flooding and other adversities, interventions from the scale of self-build lots and multi-family buildings to entire new communities. 

Currently, with the City of Woodland's Community Development Department, I designed, helped finance and continue to develop the first of three East Beamer Way complexes, a 100 bed adult Shelter, followed by 61 permanent supportive manufactured homes, and community/health center and a new Walter’s House, a substance abuse treatment center.  Contact stephen.coyle@cityofwoodland.org, 530.661.5920. I co-led the first California Climate Adaptation Council in February/March 2020 with the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, the Congress for the New Urbanism and other groups that included a national leaders. W explored how, why, where, when and with whom to plan adaptation to global warming's effects fro, the regional to neighborhood scales.

In the non-profit realm, I was first Executive Director, then Treasurer of the California Chapter, Congress for New Urbanism (www.cnucalifornia.org); co-founder and active board member of the National Charrette Institute (http://www.charretteinstitute.org/), and as Treasurer of Engineers Without Borders, I co-led the NGO's work in Gabon (https://www.facebook.com/ewbgabonGabon.

By synthesizing these experiences in both profit and non-profit design and development, I leverage often lean phsycial resources into enduring places worthy of care.  Let us collaborate on building or rebuilding the next, great place!

I continue to seek collaboratiomns with the finest planning, architecture, transportation, civil, and other consultancies around the world, and with developers, investors, governments, and NGO’s.

Steve and Ingénieurs Sans Frontières assistants