Urban Apostles from Australia: Jason Twill

<p><strong>Jason Twill</strong> <span style="font-weight: 400;">has a career spanning over 20 years in urban development. Jason has been at the forefront of built environment transformation. His career experience includes delivery of sustainable mixed-income housing projects throughout New York City, delivery of Vulcan Inc.'s South Lake Union Innovation District in Seattle, Washington, and serving as Head of Sustainability and Innovation for Lendlease in Australia.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In 2016, Jason was appointed as an Innovation Fellow and Senior Lecturer within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney and leads research into regenerative urbanism, housing affordability, and property economics.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason was designated a LEED Fellow by the United States Green Building Council in 2014, and he was named a Next City Global Urban Vanguard in both 2015 and 2017. Jason is also an appointed Champion and advisor to Nightingale Housing in Australia.</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Love for NYC</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jason was born just outside of Philadelphia and grew up on the east coast.  He then moved to Columbia, Maryland, before he moved again to a suburb outside of New York City, during high school.  Where Jason grew up shaped his passion for the built environment and his desire to transform it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“</span><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">My father worked in New York, and I think I grew up hating the suburbs and the monoculture status to it of car dominant environments.  I think experiencing New York City as a young adolescent and teenager really introduced me to tolerance, diversity, language, ethnicity and all these different things and I just fell in love with the city.</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">” - Jason Twill</span></p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>September 11, 2001</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">