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William "Billy" Riggs is an American urban planner, public servant, academic, author, athlete and musician. He works as a professor of City Planning at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, and as an international consultant. His expertise is in the areas of sustainable transportation, environments, land use, housing, spatial analysis and digital technology. He resides in San Luis Obispo, California, where he serves as a local Planning Commissioner.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.slocity.org/home/showdocument?id=5035 )〕 As a musician, Riggs is an active recording artist and music producer. He has worked on award winning projects with Frances England, Gabriel Riggs and Carlos Villarreal. Riggs is also a competitive runner, swimmer and cyclist. ==Early life and education== Riggs was born in the Louisville, Kentucky metro. He is of German-Jewish decent and his great-great grandfather, a baker from Frankfort, Kentucky fled Germany in the late 1800s to avoid persecution and mandatory military service. His maternal grandfather was William Gorman managed an oil business for Palm Springs developer, Ray Ryan. He grew up on a farm outside Louisville where he was consistently exposed to art and education including his "his father's eclectic record collection" which included work ranging from Icarus by Paul Winter Consort to The Planets by Gustav Holst.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.billyriggsband.com/bio/ )〕 He attended Graceland Christian High School in New Albany, Indiana and where he excelled academically and athletically, being honored as both Valedictorian and Athlete of the Year in his senior year. He also played in two bands during this period, the Hermits, and Just Visiting. He attended Ball State University and studied history with a focus on art and architecture while participating in NCAA Division I Cross Country and Track and Field. His senior thesis attempted to understand the social cultural influences of modern religious music. As a student athlete he was selected to represent Ball State the 2000 NCAA national leadership conference.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/NCAANewsArchive/2000/membership+information/leadership%2Bconference%2Bparticipants%2B-%2B6-19-00.html )〕 In 2009 he was honored with a Graduate of the Last Decade award.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cms.bsu.edu/about/administrativeoffices/alumni/awards/goldaward/goldawardrecipients )〕 After graduating from Ball State he studied for a Master's of Urban Planning at University of Louisville. While at Louisville he continued to be involved with athletics but also began to hone his design and technology skills. Riggs also worked as an intern at the Robert Doughty Consultancy in Lincolnshire, England during this period.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/billyriggs )〕 After 5 years of work for the US Coast Guard he attended Berkeley for a PhD in City and Regional Planning, studying under Dr. Robert Cervero and Dr. William Satariano. While at Berkeley, Riggs focused on work in walkability and housing that was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal. He also became influenced by Rich Lyons, Dean of the Haas School of Business, on the topics of leadership and human capital. He wrote about those in a 2010 article talking about economic development, the information economy and the lack of jobs in his hometown of Louisville, KY. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Billy Riggs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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