Galina Tachieva is a partner and director of town planning at the central office of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, in Miami, Florida. She is originally from Bulgaria, and received a masterrsquo;s degree in architecture from the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering in Sofia and a masterrsquo;s in urban design from the University of Miami, Florida. Galina submitted a ldquo;Sprawl Repair Kit,rdquo; which contains some of the ideas and drawings from her book, to the 2009 Re-Burbia competition sponsored by the blog Inhabitat and DWELL magazine, where it won the Peoplersquo;s Choice Award.nbsp;