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Mr. Speck served as Director of Design for the National Endowment for the Arts, where he was responsible for all grant making in the fields of planning, urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, and historic preservation. He directed two NEA leadership initiatives, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design and Your Town, both of which taught design skills to community leaders nationwide. He also created a new initiative, the Governors’ Institute on Community Design, which brought smart growth principles and techniques to state leadership. Mr. Speck spent a decade at Duany Plater-Zyberk and Co., Architects and Town Planners (DPZ), where he was Director of Town Planning. DPZ is a leader in the international movement called New Urbanism, which promotes alternatives to suburban sprawl and urban disinvestment. Mr. Speck received a Masters in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design while serving as Head Teaching Fellow in Architectural History at Harvard College. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Williams College, and also holds a Masters in Art History, earned as a Syracuse University Fellow in Florence, Italy. With Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Mr. Speck is the co-author of Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream | 