Raimi + Associates
Walker Wells is a Principal at Raimi + Associates since August 2018 and has served as a Lecturer in Green Urbanism at both the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and Pomona College since 2008 and 2004, respectively. With extensive experience in green urbanism, previously held roles include Executive Director and Vice President of Programs at Global Green USA, where oversight of programmatic initiatives related to green affordable housing and sustainability was a key focus. Walker also contributed as a Fulbright Fellow, researching sustainable urban planning in Sweden, and has held various planning positions, including Associate Planner for the City of Santa Monica and Senior Urban Designer at Gruen Associates. Academic qualifications include a Master's in City and Regional Planning from California Polytechnic State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Environmental Studies from UC Santa Barbara.
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Raimi + Associates
Raimi + Associates is a multidisciplinary planning, policy, design and research firm with offices in Berkeley and Los Angeles. Our firm’s community planning expertise is complemented and informed by our focus on public health, equity, sustainability and program evaluation. To address the complexity of communities, Raimi + Associates integrates a host of interrelated subjects—from land use and design, to sustainability and green building, to public health and social equity, to public engagement and visioning—into planning and social research efforts at a variety of scales. Our work focuses on four practice areas: Community Planning, including citywide general and comprehensive plans, vision plans, TOD plans, corridor plans and community engagement. Public Health, including healthy community elements and policy, community wellness survey’s, health impact assessments (HIAs), health surveys, mapping and analysis, and healthy development checklists. Sustainability, including climate action plans, GHG emissions inventories, LEED-ND implementation, and sustainability policy and analysis. Program evaluation and community assessments. We are a small firm and, while we work on large-scale planning projects, we provide focused, individualized attention to each client. We pride ourselves on establishing strong working relationships with clients, maintaining our ideals of great communities, and, most of all, having fun with our work. In 2015 R+A the National American Planning Association (APA) named R+A the Best Emerging Planning and Design Firm.