Andy Fillmore is a city planner and urban designer with degrees in architecture and city planning from Dalhousie University, and in urban design from Harvard University. He has practiced in Vancouver, Boston and Portland Maine, and in 2005, after 15 years away, he returned to Halifax to fill the newly created Manager of Urban Design position at HRM. Andy’s primary role has been managing the recently adopted HRMbyDESIGN Downtown Plan. He is also HRM's lead urban design advisor on the proposed World Trade & Convention Centre and new Central Library projects, and he will be leading the imminent Cogswell Interchange Redesign Masterplan. A lover of cities and city-living, and one who practices what he preaches, Andy and his family live only a short walk from downtown and their car seldom leaves the driveway.