Nicole Bremner

“Imagine if the world around you disappeared and the paths to which you are so accustomed suddenly went away and you had to reinvent them…”Charles (Chuck) Wolfe is the founder of Seeing Better Cities and the author of the award-winning books Seeing the Better City and Urbanism Without Effort.In 2017 Chuck left 34 years’ experience as an environmental land-use lawyer behind and set up Seeing Better Cities to improve the conversation around how cities grow and evolve in the around the world. Chuck helps developers and municipalities with policy-related issues and community involvement strategies and leads explorations of urban spaces impacted by rapid change and growth. “Enough with the touristic experience or the classical fantasy that drives our understanding of a particular place, we need to do the work, we need to dig in,” he says. Much of Chuck's inspiration, he says, comes from his father, who founded the Modern Urban Design and Planning Programme at the University of Washington. Chuck's latest