MICHIGAN CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIET Y OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS 2012: VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2012: VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3
MICHIGAN CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN SOCIET Y OF LANDSCAPE
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ARCHITECTS
by Nathan G. Elkins, ASLA
LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
In reflecting on this past year, I am struck by what a learning experience it has been. These are trying times for Michigan landscape architects between a sluggish economy and licensers challenges. But I remain optimistic as I witness the resiliency of our profession, its practitioners and the new generation of emerging professionals from Michigan’s two highly regarded university programs. Having just attended the ASLA Annual Meeting and Conference in Phoenix, I have a renewed enthusiasm for the work we do and am excited to see the profession continue to evolve to address current needs of regions, communities, and most importantly, people. One of this issue’s articles, Emerging Market: Landscape Architects and Agriculture, is a great example of our profession evolving with Michigan’s economy and the public’s renewed interest in food in its basic form. I am also particularly thrilled that this issue includes a Legacy Series article on Deb Cooper, my mentor since starting my private practice career at Beckett & Raeder, Inc. long ago. I have learned and continue to learn so much from Deb and hope that I am imparting to others even a fraction of the wisdom I was able to glean from her. I think in reading the article, you too will be impressed by what a remarkable person she is and I am proud to call her not only a colleague, but also a friend.
ON THE COVER: A view of a future apple orchard, spring 2010 on a 40-acre farm in Leelanau County. Image courtesy of IDF STUDIO.
Emerging Market: Landscape Architects and Agriculture
By the time you are reading this, we will have just held what I am sure will be another successful Michigan ASLA Annual Conference in Grand Rapids. I look forward to continuing on the Michigan Executive Committee next year in the Immediate Past President role. I assure you we will keep our eye on the future and continue to represent and protect the Michigan landscape architecture profession through advocacy and awareness. I would like to thank the Michigan ASLA Executive Committee for its continued commitment to our profession and the limitless volunteer spirit of those individuals I’ve served with. I still consider myself a bit of a newcomer to the Michigan ASLA Executive Committee and I cannot imagine a finer group of people to have worked with. Please enjoy this issue of SITES, and as always, don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about MiASLA or volunteer opportunities. It is an experience you will not regret!
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Landscape Architects Can Take the Lead in Designing CiƟes by Ben Wellington, Student ASLA
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Landscape Architect Legacy Series: Deborah J. Cooper, LLA, ASLA by Cindy Czubko
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Student Spotlight: Jonathan Doherty, Student ASLA Robert Primeau, Student ASLA
CALENDAR OF EVENTS MiASLA Annual Conference October 25, 2012 Thousand Oaks Golf Club, Grand Rapids 1
Christy Summers, LLA, ASLA President, Michigan Chapter of ASLA
SITES is published quarterly by Michigan ASLA. Cover printed on 50% recycled paper. Text printed on 100% recycled paper.
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Emerging Market: Landscape Architects and Agriculture by Nathan G. Elkins, ASLA
Landscape Architecture Magazine Editor Bradford McKee recently asked, “What does landscape architecture have to do with farming and food supply?” He questioned landscape architects’ role in agriculture and provided the opportunity and national platform for our profession to reach out to the design world and either jump on the tractor or leave the farm altogether. Influence Design Forum (IDF), based in Traverse City, has been active in agricultural planning and contends Landscape Architects (LA) are not leaving the farm. In fact, the role of LA’s continues to grow and expand beyond the classic responsibility of planning for farm markets and working with cities and neighborhoods to design and build the latest urban farm. The new and expanded role appears to be changing and even goes as far to garner the attention of the mainstream. Nate Elkins of IDF explains, “Americans are starting to care about where their food comes from and they have started to get excited about learning and interacting with the production process. Everything from people spending more time at the supermarkets reading the labels of food ingredients to farm market managers exploring ways to bring affordability to the marketplace, and the most startling is people going directly to the farm to interact, learn, and recreate together with the agricultural process.”
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Elkins points out that he understands farm stands have always been around, but nothing close to
what he called today’s mega-stands, corn mazes, and fall carnivals that clog rural corridors throughout late September and October. He also notes that it is not just roadside farm markets that are seeing explosive growth, but explained that “different regions across the Country have been retooling themselves during the economic downtime and have come up with creative solutions to attract people, and it all relates to the food movement.” Rebranding A Region Based on Food In northwest lower Michigan, the Grand Traverse Region historically known for the cherry industry, is one place that has been successful in rebranding the local food system and now is on track to become Michigan’s premiere foodie destination – everything from boutique restaurants, food markets, wineries, craft breweries, and cider houses have seen encouraging popularity and growth. The Northwest Michigan Food and Farming Network announced recently that they are well on the way to achieving their 10-year goal of increasing the resilience and doubling the value of the region’s local food and agricultural economy by 2019. Momentum garnered from The Grand Vision might be one of the reasons, which though still in its infancy is an ambitious, citizen-led vision for the future of land use, transportation, economic development and environmental stewardship across six counties in northwest lower Michigan. Other explanations for the positive growth include the famous Food Network Star, Mario Batali, who
is a spokesperson for Pure Michigan and frequents the Leelanau Peninsula in northwest lower Michigan. An excerpt from Batali’s latest tweet at the Huff Post was a positive indicator that the Grand Traverse Region is doing something right, “Your summers boast a roster of festivals celebrating the bounty of your surroundings: cherries and filmmakers, local trout and whitefish, winemakers, craft ale brewers and even a couple of cider pubs. Joyfully, you have become a modern gastroparadise.” Leelanau County Farm: A Case Study Elkins goes on to explain that “as a landscape architect, it is not easy to wrap your arms around
agriculture and farms as it is when designing a park or street. Agriculture and related food systems are complex and really have no boundaries.” Elkins wants LA’s to embrace the idea that food production can be creative and that farms and rural communities can have designed spaces that provide for both form and the conventional utilitarian design that is needed to operate and be productive. IDF began working on master planning in 2010 for a 40-acre farm in Leelanau County that will eventually boast a full-scale specialty hard cider operation. The extensive agriculture planning is exactly the type of new role that has come online and is available to LA’s. Elkins explained that the design team for the project was able to clearly relate to the planning process and use the basic continued on page 4 3
EMERGING MARKET: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND AGRICULTURE tools that LA’s learn in academia for site planning and design. The design team included landscape architects, an architect, planner, horticulturist, farm management consultant, and local farmers. Elkins admits that while the design team was able to use the basic building blocks of site design there was a learning curve involved. The design team was required to bring together planning and design with the development of agribusiness; this resulted in conducting market research in tandem with completing an analysis and building a design program. Everything from future management and production, to bringing the product to market had to be considered in context of the site. The design team selected and made recommendations for tree variety and rootstock based on the types of cider that was going to be produced, learned from local farmers on the best implementation techniques and soils, and collaborated with other hard cider producers on programming and production. IDF’s services have even been retained to provide management and oversight of the orchard in its infancy and as the remaining facilities are completed. Elkins claims that project success so far has come from not only utilizing these building blocks of site design, but also having the ability to rearrange them and insert new components and methodology – “we worked hard to capture design and bring it into the conventional farmscape. It might sound foolish, but we forgot about function and the idea that form follows function and started first with design and creating a place that 44
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people would be attracted to.” The design team then worked to integrate creative thinking and design with landscape health, ecosystem management, and conventional farm practices and production. As of Fall 2012, extensive earthform grading has been completed, the first 5 acres of specialty apple trees are in the ground and have had one season of growth, and site planning continues as the design team works to construct a production facility and add additional agricultural crops that will be used as ingredients in the cider making process. Landscape Architects Leading the Way As regions across Michigan and the country retool and shift how food is prepared, where it comes from, and how we interact with it, new food production models will need to be developed. These new models include increased dependence on local food production and a higher reliability on farmers to come to market with more creative food concepts. LA’s need to be involved, whether it’s working to rebrand an entire region’s food network system, or engaging directly with a cidermaker to connect his business to the farm and his customers. Food concepts and new market ideas include local hop production near high per-capita craft beer and microbreweries, specialty apple production for inclusion in cider production, high intensity and extremely diverse small farms bringing food directly to markets and
restaurants and the increase of farms opening their doors to the public. LA’s need to get excited about the idea that farmers, winemakers and even craft beer and cidermakers are re-designing the conventional farmscapes to be all inclusive, transparent and exciting for people to visit. LA’s are fully capable and have the ability to transform places and bring people together – that is exactly what is happening within the foodie movement. Elkins asserts, “by building a brand, connecting people to the landscape, and making the production process an art form, farms will be better positioned for the future,” and there is really no one better positioned to lead the effort than landscape architects.
For more information about agriculture planning as an emerging market for landscape architects, contact Nate Elkins at IDF STUDIO (231) 944.4114 To learn more about The Leelanau County Farm and see more images, visit www.influencedesignforum.com Images courtesy of IDF STUDIO
Landscape Architects Can Take the Lead in Designing Cities by Ben Wellington, Student ASLA
The East Jefferson Corridor Collaborative (EJCC) in Detroit retained Hamilton Anderson Associates to create dialogue concerning improvements along East Jefferson Avenue and determine strategies to increase social and economic development. The scope also included identifying common interests of stakeholder groups; defining corridor management; addressing traffic calming, transit, land use and zoning issues. Graphic courtesy of Hamilton Anderson Associates of Detroit, Michigan 6
For the Sunday morning general session at the ASLA 2012 Annual Meeting in Phoenix, a panel of some of the most prominent architecture and urban design critics from around the U.S. and Canada gathered. The panel consisted of Inga Saffron, architecture critic, The Philadelphia Inquirer; John King, Honorary ASLA, urban design critic, The San Francisco Chronicle; Steven Litt, architecture and urban design critic, The Plain Dealer; Chistopher Hume, urban design columnist, The Toronto Star; and Christopher Hawthorne, architecture critic, The Los Angeles Times. Throughout the discussion, the panelists stressed the need for landscape architects to take a leadership role in the planning and design of our cities. For the first question, the panel was asked, “What is the story for landscape architecture in your cities?” Litt framed Cleveland as a typical Midwestern city – losing population, but seeing a downtown resurgence. With the middle class starting to return to downtown, “a lot of energy is being refocused in the center” despite its shrinking population. Still, Litt expressed frustration that landscape architects do not often capture large projects that have the capacity to make the city more sustainable on an urban scale. As an example, he said when landscape architects are involved in large-scale projects, the results have been positive: Cleveland’s new Bus Rapid Transit Corridor, has been hugely successful, achieving “a phenomenal return on investment.”
Hume also stressed that the potential of landscape architecture is “not about the prettification of the city, it is about creating value.” He described how landscape architects have been driving the transformation of the Toronto waterfront, 2,000 acres of “what was industrial wasteland, the kind of area that people avoided like the plague.” Through a series of small projects, landscape architects have led people to understand that this part of the city could be a great place to live. Drawing applause, Hume stated that landscape architectures should strive to change “the way people perceive the city in which they live.” King described the tension between large and small projects in San Francisco. Because “things move so slowly, and there are so many political constraints,” small-scale urban interventions are starting to make a big impact. Hawthorne also expressed the difficulty of achieving large-scale landscape architecture projects, though he did say that Los Angeles is “in the midst of reengaging the public sphere,” and that this transformation “holds exciting opportunities for landscape architects.” On the other end of the spectrum, Saffron described how Philadelphia is aiming for large-scale green infrastructure, planning for the addition of 500 acres of stormwater-capturing parkland, easing city expenses and providing spaces for people. The relationship between landscape architecture and the public sector was a recurring theme throughout the session. King and Hume felt that
landscape architects are not playing enough of a role in the public sphere. Despite the widespread revitalization of urban centers, Hume said “landscape architects have been timid to recognize this opportunity.” Instead of simply filling in the spaces around buildings, landscape architects should be making spaces first and siting buildings after. By doing so, Hume felt we can design “cities that have actual public realms.” Another interesting theme in the session was the changing perception of the value of public space. Responding to the question of whether the public connects to landscape architecture the way we want them to, Saffron stated, “I think people really care about their parks, especially their neighborhood parks.” She felt that we’re in a “post-job” period, where people have work but no jobs. Because people are not “chained to their desks,” they have time to use public space in a more intense way than before. Hawthorne also spoke to the growing demand for a civic realm. He said that people in Los Angeles, despite their reputation, have a desire for public space, but they don’t have the opportunity for it. He felt that part of this desire for public space was driven by a technological shift: people’s obsession with their phones has led to them viewing car ownership as a burden, not freedom. After all, “driving is the one time that they can’t use their phones.” This question of the public’s relationship to landscape architecture also prompted a discussion about the profession’s visibility. King stated, “I think people appreciate landscapes, but continued on page 8 7
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I don’t know how many people really associate landscape architects with public landscapes.” Elaborating on this point, Hume said, “The great conundrum for the landscape architect is that when the project is successful, they think it is natural and has always been there.” Therefore, landscape architects need to make people aware that these spaces “did not spring out of nature, that every aspect was designed.” Still, landscape architects must remember that people use public spaces and take ownership of them. When landscape architects do whatever they want, the public sees it as an intrusion. Hume felt that many in the public do not see landscape architects as their allies, perhaps because “the word architect implies ego.” Throughout the session, landscape architecture was painted as a critical, but often missing, element of urban design. As cities grapple with climate change and the legacy of suburban sprawl, landscape architects need to assert themselves not only as designers of parks and gardens, but as designers of all public infrastructure.
This guest article is by Ben Wellington, Student ASLA, Master’s of Landscape Architecture Candidate, Louisiana State University.
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Joe Taylor Park (above), in the North Baxter neighborhood of Grand Rapids Michigan, is an example of a restored urban park in a area where public space is lacking. Park amenities include a spray pad, restroom, picnic facilities and open spaces. The park features sustainable measures as well, including permeable pavement which allow rainwater to flow into underground detention areas. Image courtesy of O’Boyle, Cowell, Blalock & Associates of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Michigan ASLA Landscape Architect Legacy Series
Deborah J. Cooper, LLA, ASLA Principal, Beckett & Raeder, Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan by Cindy Czubko
Deb remembers clearly the first major influence in her creative endeavors. Ms. Parsons, her first grade teacher, was preparing the seasonal bulletin boards for her classroom and singled out a boy and a girl from the class to assist her. Deb loved the experience, and was encouraged to lead her fellow classmates through her artistic expressions on many subsequent class activities. In junior high school she was placed in a trial ‘innovative’ learning curriculum that was centered on the integrative study of humanities, in lieu of the traditional independent study of English, History, Science, and Mathematics. The program focused on how all of these courses could be combined into one Humanities curriculum, where the history of art, music, and the classics were studied integral to the technical requirements of English Composition, and World History. Clearly these were not taught to the “tune of a Hickory Stick”. Creative problem solving was encouraged and collaborative thinking was the format of the classroom. Her seventh grade art teacher took an interest in her watercolor paintings and calligraphy and encouraged her to enter the Detroit Free Press Art contest. She won first place and had offers to purchase her work. Deb remembers spending hours on end drawing and painting in her free time. Deb was fortunate to attend a very progressive high school in the late 60’s and early 70’s. While the entire high school was operating under an experimental curriculum focused on learning packets and independent study that allowed you to advance at your own pace, Deb was also placed
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in a parallel experimental program where the classes focused on Russian Studies, Study of the Religions, Philosophy, and Women’s Studies, which again allowed for focused study of art, music, film or literature. Deb enrolled in a summer art program offered at the University of Michigan between her junior and senior years. This introduced her to a very liberal campus setting and a more abstract form of thinking in her compositions (anyone remember the Michigan Diag in the late 60’s?). Returning for her last semester of her senior year of high school she had completed all of the required credits to graduate and was able to enroll in seven hours of art including photography, jewelry making, ceramics, charcoal drawing and multi-media classes. Surrounded by very talented instructors and fellow students, Deb was encouraged to submit a portfolio at the end of her senior year to compete for the Traub Award. An extremely talented fellow classmate won the award, but this experience encouraged her to pursue a fine arts degree in college. Deb applied and was accepted to the Michigan State University Fine Arts Program after having been impressed by a student exhibit she attended at the Kresge Art Center on MSU’s campus. After her first semester, but due to her extensive K-12 art background, she was disillusioned with the elementary point at which they started their program and decided to try out a few options. While browsing the course catalogue, her interest in design was piqued by two program offerings at MSU: Interior Design and Landscape Architecture.
in the Civil Engineering Group where she expanded her knowledge of storm water management, road design, grading, and earthwork calculations, as well as basic infrastructure planning for water, fire protection and sanitary systems. She remembers how the civil engineers she worked with were amazed to learn that Landscape Architects were taught storm water calculations, pipe sizing and even knew what run-off coefficients and time of concentration were. They were even more surprised to learn that we had taken coursework covering horizontal and vertical curves for road design. This one year position working with civil engineers provided Deb with experience that has served her well in her management of large scale projects involving multiple discipline teams. Deb with her partners (left to right: Carey Baker, John Beckett, Deb Cooper, and John Iacoangeli) celebrating their 40th year in business at the Ann Arbor Summer Festival in 2006. She had never previously considered or even knew much about the design professions, and the options they might offer her. The first available class without prerequisites was “Introduction to LA”. She enrolled for the spring semester, and was really taken by the class, the professors, and most importantly, by the range of student work she was seeing displayed. Deb continued in the LA program never trying the Interior Design Program. During the course of her studies, she remembers admiring the work and the integrity of one of her classmates in particular, Gary Cooper. The final senior project was a group project and she asked Gary and another classmate to team
up on the project. The collaboration obviously proved beneficial to both Gary and Deb who were married shortly after graduating in 1976, and have collaborated professionally ever since. While in school, Deb had the opportunity to work for a prominent Landscape Design Build Company, Vidosh Brothers. Here she enhanced her knowledge of plants and their growing requirements, the value of specifications, cost estimating, the idiosyncrasies of working with a client, and the art of closing a deal. After graduation, she was hired by Smith Hinchman and Grylls (now SmithGroupJJR). At SH&G, Deb worked
In the late 70’s, Deb took a position with Beckett, Raeder & Rankin (BRR). While at BRR, she worked on long-range planning and large scale design projects for Catherine McAuley Health Systems, Washtenaw Community College, several Taubman Malls, Caterpillar Tractor Company, and the Sleeping Bear Dunes. During this time, she was exposed to the research and implementation of Caterpillar Tractor Companies’, Walt Brakeman, a pioneer in the use of prairie landscapes to reduce maintenance, piped infrastructure, and the negative impacts of lawn mowers, fertilizers and pesticides on the environment. In the early 80’s, Deb and Gary moved to Eugene, Oregon for Gary to pursue a Master of Architecture from the University of Oregon. While in Eugene, Deb retained a position with Lacoss and Associates, Landscape Architects and Planners where she continued on page 12 11
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was involved in writing park master plans, park design, proposal writing, grant writing, and was exposed to the Oregon plant palette. She also served on the University of Oregon’s LA guest critic program, offering formal reviews of student work. Deb and Gary returned to Michigan after his graduation and Deb was offered a position with Michigan State University, as the Assistant Director of Campus Park and Planning, under the directorship of Tom Kehler. A very rewarding experience, Deb was now responsible for the stewardship of a campus, one dear to its students, faculty, administration and alumni. This position broadened her perspective of budgets, management, and maintenance, and their role in supporting a vision that guides the development of each renovation or addition to the campus. While at MSU, Deb oversaw and designed many of the new facilities being constructed, such as the Plant and Soil Sciences Building, incorporating the relocated horticulture gardens, and the Breslin Arena. These projects were high visibility projects based on their significance to their respective programs as well as the thousands of visitors they attract to the campus annually. While at Campus Park and Planning, she established an accounting system for appropriately charging accounts for the in-house site crews and the sustainability of their equipment. She also developed a campus landscape master plan to govern the development of the campus arboretum, establish priorities for maintenance, and serve as a long range plan for fiscal budgeting. During this time she was invited by Tony Bauer to participate on a professional 12
advisory committee to the LA program. She also participated in teaching LARE review sessions, speaking engagements, and served as a guest critic of student projects. Missing the diversity of private practice, Deb returned to Beckett & Raeder (BRI) in the mid 80’s. She applied her campus planning and design insights on commissions with the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Indiana State University, Michigan State University and Oakland University. Additionally, Deb assisted dozens of Midwestern communities in changing the culture of their streets to pedestrian oriented environments by challenging traditional traffic planning guidelines (and agencies) and proposing road diets, complete streets, and form based development well before the terms were coined. Linking parkland and open space to community business districts, she developed expertise in assisting communities in developing comprehensive plans that combined the efforts and funding of DDA’s, parks commissions, infrastructure planning, and private development to achieve the greater whole. Deb has planned, designed, and implemented numerous award winning projects and has prepared grant applications for some of the largest awards in the state for the Transportation Enhancement and the Trust Fund programs. Deb thrives on assisting her clients in creative problem solving and prefers a collaborative design process with her fellow professionals and clients, firmly believing that the sum is more than equal to its parts. In 1991, Deb was invited to become a partner at
Beckett & Raeder, which was then comprised of Landscape Architects and Civil Engineers. By 1996, she had served a two-year term as the MiASLA Vice-President of Communications and had achieved a full partnership at BRI with the firm expanding to include Community Planning and Economic Development. Today, Beckett & Raeder is a multi-discipline firm offering landscape architecture, planning, civil engineering and environmental services with offices in Ann Arbor, Petoskey and Traverse City. Recently, Deb was appointed to the inaugural Michigan State University Landscape Architecture Alumni Advisory Board to ‘give back’ to her alma mater program. She hopes to continue to foster good will for the program and touch the lives of the next generation of Landscape Architects. The legacy one leaves can be viewed by the influence one has on the next generation. Both of Deb and Gary’s children have followed their own paths into the creative world: Leigh in the world of fine art and design, and Joe in the world of industrial (product) design. Their appreciation for responsible planning, and thoughtful design is evident in their life choices. She hopes that the careers she has touched through Beckett & Raeder and MSU will continue to play a role in the development of a well planned and aesthetically fulfilling, sustainable environment.
Cindy Czubko, Certified Main Street Manager (CMSM), is a Principal and Marketing Director at Beckett & Raeder in Ann Arbor, MI. Images courtesy of Beckett & Raeder
Student Spotlight: Michigan ASLA Student Chapter Members
Jonathan Doherty,
Robert Primeau,
South Lyon, Michigan Michigan State University BLA Candidate email: dohert38@msu.edu
Lincoln Park, Michigan University of Michigan MLA Candidate email: rprimeau@umich.edu
Student ASLA
Student ASLA
What I truly love about Michigan is all of the endless beauty and nature to be had. After graduating, it’s my aspiration to stay and practice landscape architecture in this great state. Michigan has so much to offer: the Great Lakes, urban areas, nature parks and preservations. I hope I get the chance to put my design mark on this state.
As a child, I was fascinated with maps and plans, and building natural environments in aquariums. As an undergraduate intern I spent a good deal of time delineating wetlands and became interested in the conservation of “wild” spaces through the proactive interventions of wetlands construction and habitat restoration.
What has influenced my decision to become a landscape architect is the profession’s ability to blend my creative, technical, and environmental backgrounds into one. This profession is so diverse and versatile; I can’t wait to start my professional career.
The notion of designing landscape interventions that provide ecosystem services and wildlife habitat while also appealing to specific human notions of aesthetics is compelling to me. I am drawn to this idea that landscape architecture has the potential to bridge the gap between the beauty of nature and the notions of our own aesthetic tastes when such a gap exists.
If I could choose any project to work on, it would be a site reclamation project. Having the chance to take something such as a brownfield or a mining site and through ecological and creative design restore the site to a useable and beautiful place really evokes me. We get the chance to turn the unsightly and uninhabitable into a work of art.
I want to see functioning ecosystems showcased in our public spaces, be that a State Forest or an urban park. Changing gears, I’ve enjoyed seeing the freeway embankments around the City of Detroit have their turf grass removed and replaced with arrangements of perennials. They break up the monotony of those landscapes beautifully and make them look like they are worth more.
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2012 MICHIGAN ASLA OFFICERS AND STAFF President Christy Summers, ASLA
Associate at Large Joane Slusky, Associate ASLA
President Elect Mark Robinson, ASLA
Executive Director Derek Dalling
Immediate Past President SuLin Kotowicz, ASLA
U of M Student Representatives Katie Dennis, Student ASLA Chris Strasser, Student ASLA
Trustee Vanessa Warren, ASLA VP of Government Affairs Bill Sanders, ASLA VP of Marketing, Craig Hondorp, ASLA VP of Education Scot Lautzenheiser, ASLA Treasurer Monica Schwanitz, ASLA
MSU Student Representatives Jessica Pilon, Student ASLA Jonathan Doherty, Student ASLA SITES: Editor and Layout Clare Jagenow, ASLA clare.jagenow@SmithGroupJJR.com Advertising Sales Joane Slusky, Associate ASLA joane@junosolutions.us
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