SDAT - Key Persons
Christine is Senior Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota's Department of Landscape Architecture. She has over 25 years of experience at in the design of greenways and ecological corridors, natural and cultural resources, regional and federally designated rivers, scenic byways, land conservation and restoration strategies, and community participation and Charrette processes. She has taught professional, graduate and undergraduate courses in regional landscape design and planning, conservation practices, urban design, landscape and garden history, and mine land reclamation. Her current focus is management of the Department's role in the Laurentian Vision Partnership, a regional initiative she helped launch on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range over ten years ago. The Partnership reshapes taconite mine sites into productive community landscapes and habitat, and builds the coalitions necessary to implement such plans. Her most recent related case study is featured in the latest issue of Landscape Journal (30:1).
Christine is a former Branch Chief of the National Park Service's Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance Program, Pacific Northwest Region, and a former Planning Manager of Portland Metro's Natural Areas, Parks and Trails Program. She has served on the board of the Minnesota Land Trust and currently on the board of the National Waterfront Center. Christine holds a BLA and MLA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Washington and an MA in medieval studies from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
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- Principal With AECOM
- Professional Engineer )
Ian Lockwood is a principal with AECOM, a large multi-disciplinary design firm. Ian's work is dedicated to evolving the conventional transportation engineering paradigm into a more sustainable one. One of Ian's current pursuits is helping design a 160-acre, mixed use, transit-oriented redevelopment project in Alexandria, Virginia.
Ian is recognized for his work on Smart Growth, context-sensitive design, historic preservation, and traffic calming. His passion is improving places socially, economically, and environmentally. He is well published and enjoys speaking at professional conferences, seminars, and occasionally on NPR. Ian has helped reform movements at several state departments of transportation through policy work, training, guideline preparation, and leading projects. In recent years, Ian has helped various public health organizations make stronger connections between the built form and community health. One of Ian's projects was awarded the Institute of Transportation Engineers' 2009 Project of the Year. The project was an integrated transportation and land use plan, in New Jersey, that stopped a major freeway from being built through a developing area near a small town. By working with myriad stakeholders and developers and by planning a network of two-lane, context-sensitively designed streets, the project was well received by the public, the development community, and the NJDOT. The project saved the State money, avoided damaging wetlands and historic farms, and resulted in a walkable place with a connected open space system.
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- Principal and Senior Planner With the Cecil Group
Mr. Buckland is a Principal and Senior Planner with The Cecil Group. He brings to his teams a vast amount of experience in land planning, including environmental planning and zoning regulations. Mr. Buckland has practical experience having been a public sector planner ‘working in the trenches' in three communities in Connecticut and Massachusetts. He is very knowledgeable on a wide variety of regulatory and land management approaches including incentive zoning, green design, form-based codes, design guidelines, community centers, brownfields, tax increment financing, and transit-oriented development. His work includes projects throughout the Eastern U.S., applying creative approaches in planning, zoning, and development for projects that cover town-wide plans, neighborhood plans, coastal management, downtowns, military campuses, civic facilities, mill reuse and industrial development.
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- Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional
As principal at Weinstein AU, Lesley's passion is designing for the future of Seattle and the Northwest. Lesley's work is often complex, with multi-disciplinary teams. She thinks strategically and is able to help bring diverse groups to a consensus. Clients rely on her to help solve their most challenging issues.
Since joining Weinstein AU in 1996, she has worked on a wide variety of architectural projects and some of the major urban design projects in Seattle; the Piston & Ring Building, Agnes Lofts, and multiple projects with Seattle Center- including all three major capital projects on campus- represent just a few. In addition to architecture, Lesley works on urban design projects that extend the reach of good design. She also works regularly with the City of Seattle, influencing and writing policies that impact the city's future. She is currently rewriting the City's Design Guidelines to be based on sustainability and conceptual thinking.
Lesley is very active in the community. She has served on the Board of ARCADE magazine for eight years, and is a committed members of AIA's urban design committee. She has served on numerous committees for the Downtown Seattle Association, led charrettes for Allied Arts, and regularly participates as a juror, ranging from graduate studio critiques to professional awards for the AIA, including selection of finalists for national Firm of the Year and Gold Medalists. She has traveled to Europe and Asia with the International Sustainability Institute to look at cutting-edge sustainable practices around the world.
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- Registered Landscape Architect
Steve Durrant, ASLA, is a principal and the senior landscape architect at Alta Planning + Design and Alta Bicycle Sharing in Seattle, Washington, USA, the national authority specializing in non-motorized transportation solutions. He is a registered landscape architect and planner with over 30 years experience helping communities become better places to live. His career has focused on urban non-motorized transportation, urban trails, waterfront redevelopment, open space planning, community revitalization, greenways and long range planning for National Parks. His recent work in Portland, Minneapolis, St Louis, Kansas City, Seattle, Dallas, Louisville and other cities includes planning and design for regional open space systems, non-motorized transportation corridors, light rail and streetcar transit, urban waterfront redevelopment and bicycle transportation programs and facilities. Mr. Durrant has contributed to projects internationally, including a repatriation plan for a portion of the Demilitarized Zone in Korea and scenic area planning in Taiwan. He brings a sensitivity to community values, the local environment, and vernacular design sensibilities. He is a certified League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor, and a member of the League's Board of Directors. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of The Waterfront Center, an international non-profit that advocates public access and good design at the urban waterfront, and a board member of the Mississippi River Trail, a non-profit advocating the establishment of a 10 state, 3000+ mile bikeway from the headwaters to the gulf. He has been recognized by national and international organizations for his contributions to high quality design solutions for transit, waterfront regeneration, national parks, scenic and natural areas, greenways and trails. He speaks regularly at conferences, workshops and training sessions and lectures in the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation at Portland State University.
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- Northampton 's Director of Planning and Sustainability
Wayne Feiden is Northampton's Director of Planning and Sustainability. He led that city to earn the highest "Commonwealth Capital" score, the former Massachusetts scoring of municipal sustainability efforts, and "Bicycle-Friendly," "Pedestrian-Friendly", and "Great Streets" designations. His focus includes downtown revitalization, sustainability, transportation, open space preservation, and streamlined regulatory efforts.