Peter Verity

Peter Verity is an architect and urbanist and a director of the international planning, architectural and environmental constancy, PDRc (www.PDR-C.com). Peter Verity is well known as the competition winner of a number of large scale high profile urban projects these include the University Malaysia Sarawak; The New Town of Gopeng, Malaysia; Shahin Shah, Iran; Lower Reaches of the Hehei River in Tianjin and the Xuhui Shanghai Waterfront competition.
Peter Verity obtained Masters Degrees in Architecture and City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania where he was taught by such luminaries as Louis Kahn, Louis Mumford, Buckminster Fuller, Ed Bacon, Britten Harries, Ian McHarg, David Wallace, David Crane, Russell Ackoff, Peter Shepherd; Denise Scott Browne. On graduation he worked for the Urban Design Group of the New York City Planning Commission.
Peter Verity is known for his work on new town planning and design these have included, Shahin Shah, Villa Shah, Kutching, Milton Keynes, New Communities for Negara Properties, Quongshan New Town, Bandar Baru Bangi, Peach Tree City, Shanghai Songhai, Kelana Jaya, Buffalo New York, Gopeng Ipoh, and Jinan.
His experience in university planning and design includes. University of Sokoto, The International University of the Commonwealth, University Malaysia Sarawak, The University of Isfahan, University of Keele, Gopeng, United Emirates University, International Islamic Youth Complex.
In 2008 Peter Verity led the PDRc team that won the international design competition for the urban regeneration of the Shanghai Xuhui Waterfront an 8.5km length of the Hangpou River. This is a twenty year implementation of one of the worlds largest inner city urban regeneration projects.
Peter Verity is a well known lecturer on urbanism and re-urbanism, during his time in Malaysia he was a founder of the Badan warisan Malaysia (National Trust).
Ref:
'World Architecture', Profile, November 1996
'UIA International Architect' June 1984
'World Architecture'October 1996

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