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Spring Public Lecture to feature Randall Arendt
Monday, April 28 2008 at 7 p.m.
No charge to attend

Randall Arendt

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.