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| 2003 ASLA Annual
Meeting & EXPO
October 30 - November 3, 2003 New Orleans, Louisiana EDUCATION SESSIONS Sunday, November 2 F1 Recent droughts and energy shortages are heightening interest in challenging traditional patterns of development. This session promotes environmental considerations as primary sources for creative design. It describes the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) rating system as it applies to landscape architecture. Case studies feature examples of stormwater harvesting, saving remnants of structures from demolition to shape outdoor space, replacing traditional drainage systems with surface systems, and designing for alternative energy sources. For more information regarding this session, please contact aabel@wenkla.com. Learning Outcomes: Ann Abel is a registered landscape architect and senior associate for Wenk Associates, a landscape architecture and planning firm located in Denver, CO, with a specialty in integrating natural systems and processes into urban settings. Abel has over 10 years' experience with sites involving environmental remediation combined with improving urban design and community objectives. In addition to managing site design for several projects pursuing LEED ratings, she provides consulting and lectures on creative surface stormwater management, drought management, and water conservation. Panelists include Raul Rodriguez a civil engineer with Sellards & Grigg, Inc. and Peter Nelson a drainage and flood control civil engineer with Sellards & Grigg, Inc. F2 Protecting water quality is inherently a regional problem, not a site-specific one, yet efforts to protect water quality are often based on site-specific techniques. What these approaches have not addressed is how impacts to water quality stem from the inappropriate location of new development and from the site-specific construction and design techniques that are employed. This session will detail growth management planning tools that can be used to promote regional water quality planning. For more information regarding this session, please contact pkumble@jhle-studio.com. Learning Outcomes: Peter A. Kumble, ASLA, received a master’s degree in landscape architecture and regional planning from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree in environmental planning from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, OH. He has been working as a community planner, public facilitator, and landscape architect for nearly 20 years. He is a principal with the Johnson Hill/Land Ethics Studio, based in Ann Arbor, MI, specializing in open space preservation issues, resource conservation, greenways development, community master planning, and landscape architecture. Panelists include Elizabeth Brabec, ASLA, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, and Stuart P. Echols, ASLA, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University. F3 A community’s walkability is a good measure of its quality, livability, beauty, and social and economic vitality. This session explains the key elements in creating walkable communities and the importance in creating connections. Success stories from around the nation will be depicted illustrating the elements that create the magic. Specific anecdotes from towns and many rural and urban settings will include example redevelopment success stories in downtowns, residential areas, commercial corridors, and rural villages. An interactive question-and-answer session will follow the presentation to answer questions raised during the presentation. For more information regarding this session, please contact walkable@aol.com Learning Outcomes: Dan Burden is the executive director of Walkable Communities, Inc., a nonprofit corporation helping to develop more livable communities. Burden received his BS from the University of Montana School of Forestry in 1980. He is a nationally recognized authority on bicycle, pedestrian, and traffic calming facilities and programs with over 32 years of experience in sustainable community design. He served for 16 years as the state bicycle and pedestrian coordinator for the Florida Department of Transportation. His design recommendations often focus on traffic-calmed arterial roadways with medians, refuge islands, roundabouts, enhanced edges for walking, bicycling and transit, and street trees. F4 New environmental issues are changing New York’s estuarine ecosystem. Cleaner water resulted in the recovery of wood-eating organisms; now the harbor’s vast wooden infrastructure requires replacement. Global climate changes cause sea level rise and more frequent “100-year” floods. A marine biologist, an ecological restorationist, a climatologist, and the manager of Manhattan’s new major waterfront park will lead an interactive discussion on reinventing New York City’s harborfront in response to its evolving ecology. A suite of new environmental issues faces planners and designers working in NY Harbor. These include water quality improvement; changes in populations of wildlife and marine organisms; climate changes such as rising sea level; and a widespread shift from postindustrial derelict harbor facilities to publicly accessible recreation. The convergence of ecological and land use issues requires New York City to reinvent significant aspects of its harbor infrastructure. This session will engage panelists from a variety of viewpoints and the audience to a wide-ranging discussion of the intersection of ecology, planning, and design. Learning Outcomes: Marcha C. Johnson, ASLA, is a landscape architect and ecological restorationist in practice for 26 years in both the private and public sectors. She is currently a landscape architect with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, specializing in ecological restoration, the design of parks that conserve natural systems, and the design of postindustrial urban waterfront parks. She is the project leader of a five-person New York City Parks’ design team for a key portion of Brooklyn Bridge Park under construction in 2002, and a city spokesperson for the design of Hudson River Park, a four-mile city and state partnership along Manhattan’s west side. She holds a PhD in city and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania. Panelists include Cynthia Rosenzweig, PhD, senior research scientist with NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research; Marc Boddewyn, ASLA, vice president for design and construction at the Hudson River Park Trust; and Jeffrey Levinton, PhD, professor in the ecology and evolution department at the State University of New York at Stonybrook. F5 GCA Casey Trees led over 500 citizen volunteers and 35 university interns during the summer of 2002 to conduct a comprehensive GIS inventory of 106,000 street trees and 25,000 planting locations throughout Washington, D.C., for the city’s Urban Forestry Administration to use in its planning and decision-making processes and day-to-day operations. This session discusses this unprecedented project from idea to completion, offering tools and models for other communities to plan and design their own green cities. Learning Outcomes: Barbara L. Deutsch, ASLA, ISA, is program director for GCA Casey Trees Endowment Fund, an environmental nonprofit organization with the mission to restore, enhance, and protect tree cover in Washington, DC. Prior to joining Casey Trees she taught as a lecturer at the University of Washington and practiced as a landscape architect in Hong Kong. Her first degree is in commerce from the University of Virginia. Her current professional work focuses on synthesizing her business and landscape architecture skills to plan and design sustainable solutions for cities. Mark Buscaino, ISA, is the chief forester and field team leader of DC Trees Inventory for GCA Casey Trees. F6 Ethical behavior is difficult to teach or standardize, and ethical dilemmas plague a professional's existence—regardless of the practice sector. In this session ASLA’s Ethics Committee will show how it helps members "set their moral compasses." Many apparent ethical lapses are a result of misunderstandings or failures to consider the impacts of one's actions on others or on the environment. In this follow-up to a San Jose meeting session, members will become familiar with the committee’s activities, developments in professional behavior, and case discussions of ethical dilemmas, preventive measures, and remedies. Bring comments and discover how to avoid or react to ethical challenges. For more information regarding this session, please contact vcox1@lsu.edu. Learning Outcomes: Van L. Cox, FASLA, a former vice president of education for ASLA, is current chair of the Ethics Committee. He is a professor in the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University and has taught the “professional practice” course for over 15 years. Cox has illustrated the popular LAND ethics column, Whatcha Gonna Do?, since its inception. He has practiced professionally for over 30 years, is a member of CELA and CLARB, and has been the landscape architects' representative on the Louisiana licensure commission for the past 20 years. Panelists include Sidney R. Kime, Jr., FASLA, former trustee of ASLA Pennsylvania chapter; Edward J. Olinger, FASLA, former ASLA vice president of public affairs; and Marion Pressley, FASLA, current trustee of ASLA Boston chapter. F7 In recent decades, Santa Fe, NM, long known as the "city different," has fallen prey to indifferent suburban development. The irony is that the compact, traditional pattern of old Santa Fe attracts retirees and "amenity migrants," yet the transplants tend to live in sprawling two- to ten-acre subdivisions dressed up with adobe architecture themes. Santa Fe County has challenged the inevitability of sprawl. This session describes how county government, developers, and citizens have collaborated to expand the principles of village design into a plan that attacks sprawl. This program is a follow-up to Village Development Santa Fe Style, that was presented at the 1999 annual meeting. For more information regarding this session, please contact jkolkmey@co.santa-fe.nm.us. Learning Outcomes: Joe A. Porter, FASLA, is a founding partner, past president, and chairman of the board of Design Workshop, Inc., a 150-person design firm engaged in landscape architecture, urban design, and regional and environmental planning. Design Workshop works nationally and internationally with offices in Asheville, Denver, Aspen, Vail, Santa Fe, Tempe, South Lake Tahoe, Jackson Hole, Park City, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Santiago, Chile. Porter is a graduate of Utah State University and has a master’s degree in urban regional planning from the University of Illinois. He is past president of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and is currently an adjunct professor in the graduate program in landscape architecture at the University of Colorado, Denver. Copresenters include Jack Kolkmeyer, APA, the planning division director of the Santa Fe County Land Use Department and Carl Moore, professor emeritus at Kent State University and the proprietor of the Community Store in Santa Fe, NM. F8 This session is intended to explain the historic, current, and future usage of digital technology in the design professions. Basic digital principles will be presented through existing projects. Participants will explore elements of a digital project, translating design concepts into digital forms and using maps and data for persuasion. They will also discuss technical concepts such as projections, scale, abstraction of real world features, proper data management and documentation, 3-D data representation, and multimedia topics. Technologies include GIS, GPS, Rational Databases, visualization, and the Internet. A follow-up session is offered in the LandTech Pavilion on the EXPO floor: Sunday, November 2, at 1:45pm-2:45pm. For more information regarding this session, please contact qredmond@theTSRgroup.com. Learning Outcomes: Matthew C. “Quint” Redmond, ASLA, MLA, MURP, is founder and
CEO of The TSR Group, which was established in 1997 in Denver, CO. He
has extensive knowledge of landscape architecture, planning, and GIS/GPS
technologies. He has 12 years’ experience using GPS, GIS, and CAD
to facilitate the design, planning, and analysis of land development for
both the public and the private sectors. He is an adjunct faculty member
in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Colorado,
Denver. He has taught “Introduction to GIS and Planning,”
“Introduction to GIS,” “Introduction to Digital Cartography,”
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