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A registered architect and licensed planner, Meg Walker was the senior vice president of Project for Public Spaces in New York and is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, where she teaches in the graduate program of Urban Placemaking and Management. Over her 20-year tenure at PPS, Meg engaged communities around the country in creating vibrant parks, plazas, and waterfronts, revitalizing downtowns, and developing public space master plans. Meg also directed PPS’s work on new town centers and mixed-use development, focusing on the programming, design, and management of public spaces in new communities and infill development. She is an accomplished speaker who has presented at numerous planning and development conferences around the country.

Planning efforts Meg directed at PPS include:

• The Bass Center for Innovation and Placemaking: A partnership with the Brookings Institution involving research, audits, and pilot projects to integrate placemaking into innovation districts. 
• A public space strategy to revitalize downtown Detroit. 
• A program and concept design for the Middletown, Connecticut riverfront.
• A program for the reconstruction of Monument Circle in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• The concept for a new plaza at Pearl Brewery, a mixed-use development in San Antonio, Texas.
• A Design and Development Plan for the Hamlet of Hillsdale, NY.
• An Interpretive and Programming Plan for the new Van der Donck Park (daylighting the Saw Mill River) in Yonkers, NY.
• A waterfront master plan/public space plan for Cleveland, OH.
• A major new civic plaza for downtown Seattle, WA.
• A public space plan for downtown Chappaqua, NY.
• A new 6-acre park for a new town center in Oviedo, FL.
• A new civic square in Orlando, FL.

From 1998-2003, Meg was the planner for the Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, where she managed the community-based planning efforts that focused on the future of the Hudson River waterfront and led the effort to prepare the Village’s LWRP. She also prepared new zoning for the downtown and promoted community walkability through a new pedestrian plan. From 2009 to 2017, she was a Trustee of the Village, an elected position, where she headed up the efforts to revitalize the downtown and to clean up and plan for the development of the 50-acre industrial site on the waterfront.

As a Partner at Ryzinski/Walker Architects from 1986-1994, Meg was the architect of record on dozens of residential and commercial projects in New York City.  These included historic brownstone restorations, new and existing multi-family residential buildings, new restaurants, and commercial offices.