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    LARRY ENGLISH is Director Program Design & Development for Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa.

Expertise and research skills: Expertise and Skills: Architecture, Urban Planning and Design, Urban Community and Culture

Interests: Human Settlement and Shelter, Social Capital Formation, Secondary Market Development, Urban Economics and Sustinable Livelihoods

Professional/work experience:

• Director Markewicz English Urban Designers, Planners and Architects
• Founder Member of ACCESS
• Member of BEAM (built-environment action movement)
• Community Safety Centre Initiative-National Crime Prevention Strategy (Project leader)
• Integrated Rural Service System Programme 1998-2000: Integrated Rural Development Strategy and the Poverty Alleviation Programme (project leader)
• Greater Warwick Avenue and Grey Street Market Economic
• Opportunities Study: Research and analysis of the political, economic, cultural dynamics and patterns of informal and street trade, examination of backward and forward linkages, quantification of existing and potential. Formulation of Action Plan, Durban Metro Economic Strategy Department, 1998
• Kwadukuza Central Area Economic Revitalization Programme, Kwadukuza Municipality
• Illembe Land Audit for Housing: Project-managed land identification, quantification, acquisition programme and set up GIS database, Ilembe Regional Council, KwaZulu-Natal, 1998
• Guidelines for the promotion of Higher Residential Densities: Physical Planning, Political, Economic, Institutional policy framework for achieving urban densification, Town & Regional Planning Commission
• Mixed and Multi-use Areas, Application to Land Use Management Systems and Planning Schemes, Town & Regional Planning Commission
• Land Suitability Policy for Low-cost Housing: Determination of Physical, Social and Economic Criteria for identifying suitable land for housing. Ilembe Regional Services Council/Durban Metro
• Jimmy Carter Project 2002: Identification of land, Procurement of ownership, development rights, local residents and community participation process, procurement of state and city funding, town planning, urban design, architecture, social compact facilitation, project managed: environmental impact assessment, environmental management plan, civil and service infrastructure, house construction, and landscaping. Presently engaged in the formulation of the homeowners’ association bylaws, rent-to-buy contract, conditions of title and social amenity provision
• Howell Road High Density Housing Project, (Low cost housing project utilizing public-private partnerships and financing vehicles to establish a total living environment), 280 housing inits. First Metro Housing Company, 1996-2001
• Qadi Housing Project, Valley of a Thousand Hills, KwaZulu-Natal (Layout of 574 Houses, and Ancillary Social infrastructure, for the Qadi Community Development Trust

• Institute for Urban Minstry
• SA Planning Institute
• SA Council for Architects/ Built Environment
• PHD Student University of Pretoria (Part time)

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