diana marsh

urban planner | urban designer | civil engineer

Diana Marsh AICP works on a wide variety of projects at all scales, from individual sites to entire regions, with a special focus on urban infill, transit-oriented development, and redesign of suburban areas for more efficient and pedestrian-friendly development. She has worked on and managed numerous projects in the New York / New Jersey / Connecticut Tri-State region, California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Her work includes numerous redevelopment plans, downtown revitalization plans, station area and corridor plans, vision plans, regional plans, parking studies, development review, zoning codes, and design guidelines. She has extensive experience working both for municipalities, helping to ensure that new development enhances the public realm; and for developers, helping to maximize yield while creating a high-quality project that benefits the local community.

Diana Marsh’s background is in urban design and planning as well as civil engineering, with a Bachelor’s Degree from Cornell University and a Master’s Degree in City in Regional Planning from UC Berkeley that focused on the interaction between land use, urban form, and travel behavior. She has worked at numerous planning and urban design consulting firms, including Calthorpe Associates, EDAW, Parsons Brinckerhoff, The Cecil Group, and Phillips Preiss Shapiro Associates / Phillips Preiss Grygiel Leheny Hughes LLC.

Beyond urban planning and design, Diana Marsh has a strong background in transportation planning, water resources and distribution systems and other public infrastructure, and environmental resources planning. She draws upon these multidisciplinary skills in her efforts to improve the livability and sustainability of the built environment. She earned a Professional Engineer (PE) license in California, but has recently retired it.