Gabe Klein

Gabe Klein is a special venture partner at Fontinalis Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm. He was an Urban Land Institute visiting fellow with the ULI Rose Center, and was also head of the Chicago and Washington, D.C., transportation departments. He helped build Zipcar as a vice president from 2002 through 2006 and regularly consults with cities and private companies on shared transport systems.

This is an excerpt from the book, Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Funby Gabe Klein. Klein begins the chapter with a discussion of Zipcar as an example of a successful partnership with government and ends with a discussion of D.C.’s Capital Bikeshare system as a successful partnership, led by the government, with the private sector.
In an Urban Landopinion piece, Gabe Klein describes the evolution of the federal governments position on streetcars in the United States since 2009.
How public and private can work together to provide more options–and, ultimately, an integrated transportation system.
ULI visiting senior fellow Gabe Klein shares his thoughts on why the quarter acre in the suburbs was a blip in a long-term trend favoring city life.
Ok, so it’s impossible to achieve a perfect commute, let alone build a perfect city mobility system. But cities can still do a better job than they do now, and they can start by focusing on the “sticks” and “carrots” of transportation.
ULI visiting fellow Gabe Klein, who helped launch bicycle share in two cities, offers lessons from the differing experiences in Paris, Chicago, New York City, and Washington.
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