Tom Klein
Director, CUCD
Tom Klein, ASLA, WEDG is the Director of the University of Miami’s Center for Urban and Community Design. As a landscape and urban designer, he is passionate about crafting engaging public spaces that perform ecologically and socially. With a background that includes academic and professional experience in community sustainability, coastal resilience, environmental management, and active transportation planning, he is most compelled by large-scale projects that blend infrastructure and design. As a practicing designer, Tom has worked on numerous projects where human and non-human systems come together, rethinking the role of infrastructure in our cities.
Previously, Tom served as the Waterfront Planning & Design Advisor for the Waterfront Alliance and as a Senior Designer at SCAPE Landscape Architecture. He earned a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Master of Landscape Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and has held several leadership roles including as a Mayoral Appointee on the Denver Bicycle Advisory Committee and as a Board Member for the American Society of Landscape Architects New York Chapter.
