Ep. 11: Retail in the New Economy

Robert Gibbs, FASLA, AICP serves as Gibbs Planning Group's president and managing director. He is a registered landscape architect, professional planner and charter member of the American and European Congress for the New Urbanism. Robert teaches at Harvard's Graduate School of Design's Executive Education program and has authored numerous books including Principles for Urban Retail. In 2012, Gibbs was honored by the Clinton Presidential Library for his life's contributions to urban planning and by the City of Auckland, New Zealand for his planning innovations. Robert was recently named as one of the 100 Most Influential Urbanists of the past century by Planetizen and has consulted across the Americas, Europe and Pacific Rim for over 2500 cities, institutions, real estate developments and universities. Robert was inducted into the American Society of Landscape Architects College of Fellows in 2019.

Gibbs has a BA from Oakland University, where was named the Distinguished Alumni of 2016 and was granted an Honorary Doctorate of Arts in 2019.  He has also earned a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan. Gibbs is a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Certified Planners, the Congress for the New Urbanism and the Urban Land Institute. Prior to founding GPG in 1988, Robert was an urban designer at the Smith-JJR Group and an urban planner at the Taubman Shopping Center Company. Gibbs also hosts Michigan Planning Today, a popular cable program on urban and real estate issues.