March 22, 2010
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UO professor’s sustainable development plan for U.S. Marine Corps base wins American Planning Association honors
Mark Gillem’s plan reduces carbon emissions for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni on mainland Japan.
EUGENE, Ore. -- (March 15, 2010) – Sustainable design was the focus of UO professor Mark Gillem’s award winning plan for the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in central Japan. His installation development master plan was selected as the Outstanding Federal Planning Project for 2009 by the American Planning Association’s Federal Planning Division. The award is given annually to the best planning project completed for the U.S. government.  Gillem will receive the award in April at the annual meeting in New Orleans.
The plan accommodates over $3 billion in development including housing for over 1,000 families, four new schools, retail shops, over 40 acres of parks, and a new flightline. Professor Gillem developed the plan and accompanying form-based code using a highly collaborative process that included representatives from the Government of Japan and the U.S. Department of Defense.
The design process also incorporated the first-ever scientific survey of environmental preferences of military families living in Japan. The plan's focus on sustainable development will reduce carbon emissions by nearly 5 million pounds per year, reduce vehicle miles traveled by over 4.5 million miles per year, and reduce per household transportation costs by over $1,000 per year.
The Iwakuni air station is 1,300 acres and has been the site for Japanese, United Nations and United States Armed Forces installations since 1940. The base is located approximately 600 southwest of Tokyo, Japan.
Gillem is currently in Guam studying the link between land use, politics and health. “The Department of Defense spends $1.2 billion on obesity related health care costs and planning is a big cause of the problem,†says Gillem. His research will take him to Vietnam to look at the remains of U.S. military bases there and make connections with local universities.
Mark Gillem is an associate professor with joint appointments in the Department of Architecture and the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon and author of
America Town: Building the Outposts of Empire (2007), a publication that explores the export of American land use planning, environmental and social impacts to foreign countries that have U.S. military complexes. Gillem was honored last year with the 2009 Outstanding Sustainable Planning award for his Historic Downtown Area Development Plan for Fort Lewis, Wash. He is also a licensed architect, a certified planner, and a former active-duty U.S. Air Force officer.
Gillem is the principal of The Urban Collaborative, LLC. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has a PhD in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley; a Masters in Architecture also from Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Kansas.
About the University of Oregon
The University of Oregon is a world-class teaching and research institution and Oregon's flagship public university. The UO is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), an organization made up of the 62 leading public and private research institutions in the United States and Canada. The University of Oregon is one of only two AAU members in the Pacific Northwest.
Contact: Karen Johnson, AAA external relations and communications, 541-346-3603,
karenjj@uoregon.edu
Source: Mark Gillem, associate professor, architecture and landscape architecture,
mark@uoregon.edu, 541-346-1999
Links:
http://www.marines.mil/unit/mcasiwakuni/Pages/default.aspx
http://www.federalplanning.org/index.htm
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