Brian Davis

Background

About Brian Davis

Brian is a thinker, tinkerer, and change-maker with a passion for placemaking. With 20 years of experience in multiple facets of design and planning, Brian has a knack for understanding a problem’s complexity and leading the way to creative, interdisciplinary solutions. Brian has a lifelong fascination with the concept of “place,” and his professional interests lie at the intersection of transportation planning and place. His specialties include parking and curb zone planning; transit-friendly planning; site planning and development analysis; and walk/bike design and encouragement. Brian’s planning skills are complemented by his interests in creative communications and multimedia, and he is a skilled facilitator of public engagement processes. In addition to his role at Studio Davis, Brian has taught Portland State University’s well-known class in Site Planning for the last several years, leading graduate students as they produce a full plan for development of a vacant site. He is a popular speaker on topics related to parking, transportation, and urban design, with recent speaking engagements at the Oregon Main Street Conference, Oregon Active Transportation Summit, Walk/Bike/Places, and many others. He is is a founding member and volunteer for the Parking Reform Network, the nation’s first advocacy group devoted specifically to parking policy. Brian boasts a nationwide portfolio of parking project experience, having worked with cities as large as Charlotte, North Carolina (population and as small as Yachats, Oregon (population 950) to solve the unique set of parking issues present in those communities. His experience is that the best outcomes arise when city staff and the consulting team are close, communicative collaborators lending their respective expertise toward the shared goal of effective solutions.