Events

URI Community Planning & Landscape Architecture Lectures
Fall 2011 - Spring 2012

Lectures begin at 7:00 P.M. and are held in the Weaver Auditorium on the Kingston Campus of URI. This series is co-sponsored by the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, Rhode Island Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association. All lectures are free and open to the public. The lecture halls are handicapped accessible. General questions about the series may be directed to 874-2983 or to wagre@uri.edu.

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Fall 2011

October 6	David Lustberg, ASLA Principal, Arterial, Montclair, NJ Title: "Streets as Public Spaces: The role Landscape Architecture plays in the design of our streets"
October 27	Graham Young, URI Distinguished International Visiting Scholar Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa Title: "Transforming urban open space: The development of parks in Soweto with a focus on the sustainable integration of water systems and the role community factors play in the planning and design of parks"
November 17	Terri Hahn, ASLA Principal, L.A.D.A., Simsbury, CT Title: "Rising Waters: Erosion Control Plans in a Time of Changing Weather Patterns"
December 1	Keith Leblanc Principal, Keith LeBlanc Landscape Architecture, Boston, MA Title: "Site Responses for Residential Design"

Spring 2012

Febrary 23	Catherine Weaver Principal, Tupelo Gardenworks, Wakefield, RI Title: "Challenges from the Field"
March 8	Marc Miller Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Title: "Protoyping Topography: Landscape, 3-D Printing and Practice"
March 22	Calvin Abe, FASLA Principal, AHBE Landscape Architects, Culver City, CA Title: "Mutualism: Sex between City and Nature"
April 19	Thomas Balsley, FASLA Principal, Thomas Balsley Associates, New York, NY Title: "UNCOMMON GROUND: The Process, Design and Tactics of Urban Planning"