Susan Crowl Silberberg, Senior Vice President

Susan Crowl Silberberg is Senior Vice President of Community Partners Consultants, Inc. and has worked on a variety of planning and urban design projects at the national and international levels. At Community Partners, she provides consulting services to community-based organizations, municipalities, public agencies, foundations, and cultural organizations. Her planning and research projects relate to urban design, community planning, community cultural development, and strategic planning. She provided master planning services to the City of Worcester in that City’s efforts to create a Master Plan for the newly created Arts District. The urban design and public art conceptual framework works with the economic development initiatives in the plan to enhance the city’s image as a regional destination for arts and culture. Ms. Silberberg recently completed a Strategic Plan for the Dedham Historical Society. She also worked with the City of Boston to investigate options for limited public access to Long Island in Boston Harbor and sought to resolve complex issues of public access, preservation of the cultural landscape, and the security and social needs of the City-run homeless shelter on the island.

Relevant Experience

Prior to joining Community Partners, Susan Silberberg was Senior Planner and Urban Designer at Goody, Clancy & Associates in Boston where she had extensive experience in managing multidisciplinary teams on complex planning projects with the active input of community groups. She also served as manager of the planning department at that firm. She was the project leader of “A 20/20 Vision for Concord, NH,” leading the effort to develop a vision plan for the city that involved widening and shifting Interstate 93, reconnecting the Merrimack River to downtown, and the development of growth management principles for the city. “A 20/20 Vision for Concord, NH” won a 2002 Congress for New Urbanism Charter Award.
On an international scale, she has twice led a planning/architecture/landscape architecture team to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Røros, Norway to provide intensive planning, economic development, and design assistance. She coordinated with public agencies, private organizations, and town residents to assist the town in its effort to preserve the historic fabric, foster economic development, balance tourism, and manage growth.

Education

Ms. Silberberg holds a Master of City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute. She has written numerous award-winning articles and papers on urban design and planning issues. She is a licensed architect with experience in the design and construction of affordable housing, community facilities, and residential buildings. She taught architectural design, urban design and planning at Auburn University School of Architecture for five years and is currently a Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.