Carlos Rodrigues
Urban Design Chair
Carlos Rodrigues, FAICP, PP, is a Princeton-based urban designer, planner, writer, and educator with a distinguished career spanning the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. His planning practice has served a diverse range of clients, including federal, state, county, and local governments; the Territory of Macao (now part of China); foundations; real estate developers; religious congregations; environmental groups; and civic organizations engaged in both redevelopment and preservation initiatives.
An architect (Dipl. Arch., 1978) and planner (MCRP, Rutgers, 1982), Mr. Rodrigues has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Rutgers’ Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, the Rutgers Department of Landscape Architecture, and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Planning. He has held senior leadership positions, including Interim Executive Director of the New Jersey Office of State Planning/Office of Smart Growth, Director of Land Use and Regulatory Affairs at the New Jersey Builders Association, and Vice President and New Jersey Director at Regional Plan Association.
A charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, he received its 2001 Charter Award. He is a past President of APA New Jersey, a former board member of Preservation New Jersey and the Society for American City and Regional Planning History, and past Chair of the Princeton Township Zoning Board of Adjustment.
An accomplished author, Mr. Rodrigues contributed extensively to the 2001 New Jersey State Development and Redevelopment Plan, edited the 2018 Complete Guide to Planning in New Jersey, and led APA New Jersey’s rewrite of the 2024 Preliminary NJ State Plan.