Richard Register is one of the world's great theorists and authors in ecological city design and planning. He is also a practitioner with three decades of experience activating local projects, pushing establishment buttons and working with environmentalists and developers to get a better city built and running. BIOGRAPHY: It is unusual for an author to be his own illustrator, but he is, and his books are considered as pleasurable for his imaginative drawings as profound in their ecological urban content. Register is a frequent guest of organizations and conference hosts large and small--in his home town, which he calls the Bay Area, California (San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland)--and around the world

REGISTER’S IDEA :  Kind of city that can conteribute to humanity’s creative and compassionate evolution on healthy earth, in and exiting and rewarding built community from village to town and city scale.  save the world by avoiding cars, global warming,massive sprawl,natural habitant displacement, air and water pollution and other harms.

REGISTER’S CONFERANCES  Register has spoken at the "alternative events" at all the major environmental conference organized by the United Nation: Stockholm, Rio de Janeiro and Johannesburg, plus Habitat II, a.k.a. "the City Summit“ in istanbul.  University classes, architectural firms and futurist conferences, the Smithsonian Institution and National Council for Science and the Environment, associated student body organized events at colleges, Lions Clubs, Rotary Clubs, business councils, small local creek restoration groups, city government agencies, departments and mayors have all hosted his talks or classes.

REGISTER’S BOOK:  BUILDING CITIES IN BALANCE WHIT NATURE(2002)  Editor of VILLAGE WISDOM/FUTURE CITIES(1997)  Author of ECOCITY BERKELEY:BUILDING CITIES FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE(1987)  ANOTHER BEGINNING(1987)  BUILDING CITIES IN BALANCE WHIT NATURE(2002)  Editor of VILLAGE WISDOM/FUTURE CITIES(1997)  Author of ECOCITY BERKELEY:BUILDING CITIES FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE(1987)  ANOTHER BEGINNING(1987)