Aharon Varady is an urban planner and planning historian. His major interests are preserving habitat and conserving open space through the planning and redevelopment of human settlements, creating recreational and wildlife corridors in urban greenways, and in general, applying innovative green solutions to traditional planning problems. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Varady received his Masters degree in Community planning from the University of Cincinnati in 2004. While in Washington, DC, he served as a researcher and program assistant to Peter Harnik at the Center for City Park Excellence, a think tank of the Trust for Public Land that provides basic research on urban park systems. Following hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Fall of 2005, he has worked in Louisiana providing planning support for city, parish, and regional planning initiatives.

In graduate school, Varady published a book based on the subject of his thesis, the planning and environmental history of a neighborhood of Cincinnati called Bond Hill. The book was published under an Attribution-ShareAlike creative commons license and is available as a free pdf download. The book can also be ordered in print from the online, on-demand printer, lulu.com.

Prior to his work in planning, Varady toiled as an open source computer programmer and computer tech support worker in Philadelphia. While there he directed the Philadelphia Ambient Consortium, a community arts organization devoted to connecting artists and listeners of ambient, space, and other minimalist, mostly electronic, music. He enjoys bicycling, canoeing, cloud watching, hammock sailing, practicing the dérive while exploring new cities and towns, and learning more about urban planning.