John Prosser
In August 2008 John Prosser retired after 40 years as Professor of Architecture and Urban Design ( now Professor Emeritus) at the University of Colorado, and also has maintained a private practice since 1969. He has served as Dean of the College of Environmental Design and has taught at other universities throughout the nation, as well as Oxford Brooks in England and the National University of Ireland in Dublin where he was a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute Ireland in 2003 and 2004 and a visiting scholar in 2003, 04, 05, 07, and 08. Mr. Prosser served as a planning and architectural consultant for a number of projects including the Denver Technological Center, the Denver International Airport environs (private sector) and the Denver Botanic Gardens. From 1981 until 2005 he chaired the system wide 
University of Colorado Design Review Board, which assesses all CU projects on nine campuses, in six vegetation life zones, including the UCCS and Fitzsimons master plans. Currently Mr. Prosser serves as a member of four Federal, State, local and private architectural review committees.
In his final college master year interdisciplinary research studios, including MBA students, actual sponsored studies were accomplished as anticipatory, experimental and exploratory investigations and solutions. Over two decades, the grant funded projects covered work for various public private partnerships and institutions. Examples include:
DIA Partnership Tower Road Plan
L.C. Fulenwider Inc. DIBC Urban Design
Commerce City New City Center
University of Colorado Mountain Research Station
UCHSC 9th and Colorado Redevelopment
Children’s Hospital Existing Site Reuse
City and County of Denver East Colfax, Colorado to Yosemite Corridor Regeneration
North Nevada Avenue UCCS/Colorado Springs Urban Renewal Concept Planning
Liuzhou, China Prototype Sustainability City, Concept Research Study
Mr. Prosser’s continuous involvement with the new Denver airport began in the Julyof 1984. He worked in a cooperative private-public siting and transportation efforts there encompassing 200 square miles. The process lasted for 10 years, included numerous reconnaissance trips here in the United States, and overseas, which ultimately resulted in two successful referendums. In 1989, he was invited to present the latest new airport plans at the National Academy of Sciences. His private planning consulting for Box Elder Farms in the airport vicinity has continued for the past 26 years and covers 7,500 acres of property within five political jurisdictions.
His practice has included numerous large-scale diverse projects over four decades. His 1970 plan for Auraria Higher Education Campus resulted in the retention of the Ninth Street Park, St. Cajetans’, Tivoli, and Emmanuel Chapel. Similarly, he has developed strategic planning concepts for Graland Country Day School, Fountain Valley Prep School, Pueblo Community College, Fort Lewis College, Denver Botanic Gardens, and Denver University. One especially unique project was his historic preservation plan for Colorado College. He has also done the same for the towns of Morrison, Edgewater and Rangeley as well as the City of Pueblo. For 30 years, he managed environmental impact assessments for projects of a few acres up to 150 square miles.
Since 1956, he has been planning regional retail and mixed use in Kansas, Colorado, California, Hawaii and Arizona. Included locally are complexes in Boulder, Denver, Greenwood Village, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Specifically, he was the urban design consultant to the City of Lakewood for the redevelopment and/or design for Villa Italia, JCRS, Westland and Mt. Carbon community activity centers. With a division of Security Pacific Bank, he was responsible for the planning of mixed use auto mall concepts in Fairfield and Vista, California, Phoenix, Arizona, and for Ft. Collins, Denver and Colorado Springs. In the past several years he has been retained to evaluate special public/private complex projects for the Writer Corporation, U.S. West, the City of Pueblo, the Campbell Estate’s new town of Kapolei, Oahu and the Fulenwider/Shay Homes 3000 acre “Reunion” master plan community in Commerce City. In July of 2001 he served on a Urban Land Institute (ULI) advisory services panel for the redirection of the Kennedy Space Center research operations. Later that year Mr. Prosser became Senior Advisor, Director of Campus Planning for Endur Enterprise Computing Campuses. In the Fall of 2002, he was a key participant in a ULI study for the new Florida State University 1300 acre satellite campus. Again in the spring of 2004 he was selected for another expert charette panel to assess the State Road 7/U.S.441 corridor across Broward County, FL. Another ULI panel was for the St.Joseph, MO comprehensive plan in summer 2007. Again, in October 2009 he was selected to be a member of a ULI panel to do 25 year strategic planning alternatives for the University of Alberta, Canada.
Additionally, in the summer of 2005, Prosser was retained by William McDonough + Partners, Charlottesville, VA as an urban and regional planning consultant to review and advise their office macro studio section in producing new community designs in North Carolina, Virginia, Hawaii and for the first of seven new cities in China, Liuzhou. Also, for several years, he has been an oversight collaborator with the Nor’wood Group, McDonough and the Davis Partnership developing a long range layout for downtown Colorado Springs and concurrently the schematic concept drawings for a $75 million most environmentally advanced mixed-use high-rise project anywhere until 2005- 07. Further in spring 2007 he was the urban design and planning consultant to McDonough for the long range general development concept for Google World Headquarters in Mountain View CA. Beginning in summer of 2008 Prosser was hired by the Rocky Mountain Institute as the urban planner to review and recommend all the potential sustainability aspects for the proposed Tianjin, China Eco-City master plan.
He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to the profession with numerous national, regional and state awards, and he has been listed many years respectively in Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who among America’s Teachers. He served on the Lowry Air Force Base Economic Recovery Project Committee for the Cities of Denver and Aurora to provide input for the base reuse planning and implementation, and he is a member of the Urban Land Institute where he has been on the Community Development Council for fifteen years. For the next five years he was a member of the Affordable Housing Council up to 2007. Mr. Prosser received his B.S. in Architecture from the University of Kansas and his Master of Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University.