Robert Lane is the Director of the Design Program at RPA. Mr. Lane is currently the urban designer at RPA for a number of projects including the Comprehensive Master Plan for Stamford Connecticut and Transit-Friendly Communities for New Jersey. Mr. Lane has organized several successful community design workshops for a wide range of urban and suburban environments. These include the Hastings-on-Hudson Waterfront Plan, and the East Harlem 2nd Avenue Subway Community Visioning Workshop.

Mr. Lane has initiated and completed two major independent research projects, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, that focused on industrial redevelopment strategies in American cities and on the urban design issues associated with "superstore" development in New York's manufacturing districts. This work was exhibited at the Municipal Art Society in New York City and has been published in Places magazine and in the Harvard Architecture Review. Before coming to RPA, Robert Lane was an Associate at Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, PC. Mr. Lane received his Bachelor of Arts from Cornell University and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.