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Statement
of research intention,
Approach to planning and design, and Teaching objectives
My scholarly and professional
interests include landscape theory, resource management and sustainable
planning and design in protected landscapes; social and ecological patterns
and design forms in landscape systems; and community and regional environmental
policy, planning, and design.
My concept and application of landscape planning, design, and architecture
relate socio-cultural and bio-physical elements in physical and phenomenal
places, at scales we perceive and work in, and that extend in vertical
and horizontal dimensions. My intention is to interpret physical, ecological,
and social relationships that people construct in a place and develop
a better understanding of the dynamic of places where people choose to
dwell.
My research objectives are to study, interpret, and compare the rural
and urban contexts of local place and identity relationships in a regional
system. My approach has been to develop case study investigations through
protected landscapes in Western Europe and translate these observations
as applications to protected/designated sites in the United States and
United Kingdom. At this point I have worked primarily in France, Scotland,
and United States with a colleague studying England's protected landscapes.
Selected
presentations and papers
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