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Randall Arendt to present Conway public lecture
Conservation planning advocate Randall Arendt will speak on
behalf of the Conway School of Landscape Design and the Highlands
Communities Initiative (of the Trustees of Reservations) in a public
lecture: "Conservation by Design: A Practical Strategy for
Preserving Town-wide Open Space Networks," Monday, April
28, 2008, 7 p.m, Conway Town Hall
Mr. Arendt is the author or co-author of more than 20
publications, including the award-winning Dealing with Change in the
Connecticut River Valley: A Design Manual for Conservation and
Development (now in its fourth printing).
He is Senior Conservation Advisor at the Natural Lands Trust in
Media, Pennsylvania, and is the former Director of Planning and
Research at the Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also served as an Adjunct
Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning. In 2003 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning
Institute in London. In 2004 he was named an Honorary Member of the
American Society of Landscape Architects, and in 2005 he received
the American Institute of Architects' Award for Collaborative
Achievement. He received his B.A. degree from Wesleyan University
(magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and his M.Phil. degree in Urban
Design and Regional Planning from the University of Edinburgh,
Scotland, where he was a St. Andrew's Scholar.
See this Web
site for copies of reports by Mr. Arendt.
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