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For this centennial ASLA conference this project included
over 200 participants - landscape architects, government officials,
greenway advocates from each of the six New England states and
included students from three schools of landscape architecture.
The planning of the project and the organization of the team
took more than one year.
Workshops were held in every state along with a kick off meeting
that included Representative Robert Weygand, RI - the first landscape
architect elected to the House of Representatives - and David
Burwell, President of the Rails to Trails Conservancy.
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ASLA President Barry Stark at the
unvieling of the New England Greenway Plan in Amherst, MA.
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Seven groups of people with specific objectives and tasks
contributed to this project.
Co-chairs: The
five co-chairs did the majority of the project planning.
- MLA & MRP Candidates
from the University of Massachusetts, Directed by
Julius Gy. Fabos, Professor Emeritus
- The team of ten graduate students did the majority of research
and plan preparation.
Web Design Class,
Directed by Mark Lindhult, Professor
Fourteen graduate students from the UMass Department of Landscape
Architecture and Regional Planning learned web design in a computer
course and designed the majority of this project's web presentation
during the spring semester of 1999.
Senior Landscape Architecture
Studio at the University of Massachusetts: Greenway
Planning and Design at Local and Site Levels; Directed by Professors
Mark Lindhult and Robert Ryan.
Senior Landscape Architecture Studio at the University
of Connecticut Greenway: Planning and Design at Regional
and Site Levels, Directed by Peter Minutti, Associate Professor
- Advisory Board Members
- The Advisory Board Members were recruited and appointed from
Connecticut, Maine,
Massachusetts, New
Hamphsire, Rhode Island, and
Vermont by the co-chairs. They
contributed to the study in at least five different ways. They:
- Provided the teams and individuals with relevant people contacts
and access to data bases
- Provided advice for students;
- Served as critics at studio and project presentations/discussions;
- Organized and hosted small group meetings in their offices;
and
- Organized or assisted in setting-up workshops within the
six states and participated in the workshops.
A total of 59 individuals were advisory board members. The
majority of the advisory board members are ASLA members and private
practitioners. Others were members of public agencies involved
in greenway and green space planning activities.
Participants of one or more Workshops Organized in each
New England State
One hundred and sixty one professionals made contributions by
adding their expertise in suggesting alternative ways to make
greenway connections and identify millennium trails. The greenway
plans at the both New England and state levels used these recommendations
as much as possible within the short time frame of this project.
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