Zohra Mutabanna, AICP is an urban designer and city planner with over 16 years of experience in planning and urban design projects in the North America and India. She has a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in the integrated nature of transportation planning, land use planning and urban design. She has been with IBI for over thirteen years, where she has worked on inter-disciplinary projects involving master planning, transit-oriented development, non-motorized transportation planning, streetscape design, and public realm design. Her professional expertise lies in envisioning strategic and design-based solutions to challenges associated with people, transportation, and the public realm. She brings her values and passion to the task allowing for rich, citizen-driven approaches that lead to context-specific solutions. Through her experience with mapping, transportation simulation and modelling, as well as transit technologies, she also brings a unique understanding of the synergy between urban planning and “smart” technologies.