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Ellen Vanderslice,
A.I.A., is a Portland, Oregon, architect currently employed by the City
of Portland Office of Transportation as the project manager for Keep Portland
Moving, an effort to keep downtown Portland vibrant and accessible while
we build light rail on the Portland Mall. The shameless self-promotion
that follows is a remnant artifact from her days trying to put bread on
the table as a transportation consultant.
Pedestrian Planning and Design
Ms. Vanderslice has extensive experience in planning and design for pedestrian
travel. Past projects include the N. Killingsworth and N. Russell Street Improvements Planning
Project for the City of Portland, where she acted as Project Manager
for the consultant team of Nevue Ngan Associates, Ellen Vanderslice Architect and
Parametrix, Inc.,
and the St. Johns Town Center and Lombard Main Street Plan, with Lennertz
Coyle & Associates. She has served on the consultant teams for
the Kelowna, British Columbia, Pedestrian Master Plan project; the Salem,
Oregon, Sidewalk Construction and Maintenance Plan; and the Washington
County, Oregon, Transportation System Plan update. While serving on the
staff of Portland's Pedestrian Transportation Program from 1994 to 1999,
Ms. Vanderslice was project manager for the award-winning Portland Pedestrian Master Plan and Pedestrian Design Guide, and the Barbur Boulevard Streetscape
Plan.
Background
Ms. Vanderslice is a graduate of the University of Michigan College of Architecture
and Urban Planning, where she received the Master of Architecture
with high distinction in 1983. She has served on numerous boards and committees. In May, 2000,
she was named Woman of the Year by the Portland Chapter of the Women's
Transportation Seminar (WTS Portland) for her "outstanding leadership and
professionalism in advocating for pedestrian needs in community and transportation
plans, projects and policies."
Ms. Vanderslice has also been active in the area of
affordable housing. During her tenure at David R. Giulietti, Architect, she was project designer
for two award-winning affordable housing projects. She co-chaired the
AIA Portland
Housing Committee from 1995 to 1997.
Ms. Vanderslice enjoys a concomitant career as a jazz
composer and vocalist, and has released five compact discs featuring
her music.
Pedestrian Advocacy
Ms. Vanderslice has been a transportation reform activist for more than
thirty-five years, with first-hand experience of bicycle and transit issues
in addition to a deep interest in walking. She is a founder and past president
of America Walks, a national non-profit coalition of local
pedestrian advocacy groups. She also helped found the Willamette
Pedestrian Coalition, a local advocacy group in the Portland region,
and in 1994 coordinated the first series of "Pedestrian Actions"
in Portland to educate motorists about pedestrian rights.
Speaking Out
Since 1994, Ms. Vanderslice has been a featured speaker on walking issues
at more than two dozen conferences and events across the United States
and around the world. She was a keynote speaker at the Walk21 International
Walking Conferences in London, U.K. in February 2000 and Perth, Australia, in February 2001, and presented at
the Walk21 International Walking Conferences in San Sebastián,
Spain, in May, 2002, and in Zürich, Switzerland, in September 2005.
She was conference chair for Walk21 IV, the 4th International Conference on Walking
in the 21st Century, held in Portland, Oregon, May 1-3, 2003.
Honors
Service
Ellen Vanderslice
503.823.4638
Ellen.Vanderslice@trans.ci.portland.or.us |
honors
service
Vanderslice with Jean Senechal (second from right) and Bill Hoffman
(not pictured), receiving the Places Planning Award from EDRA,
the Environmental Design Research Association for the Portland
Pedestrian Master Plan and Design Guide, May 2000.
With her thesis project for the Master of Architecture, a
skyscraper for Detroit, 1983.
Two attached houses were designed to fit in a predominantly single-family
neighborhood in this award-winning project for the Nehemiah Housing
Opportunity Program in Portland.
Ellen Vanderslice
speaks at
the International Walking Conference in London,
February 2000.
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