UrbanTHINK: Valuing and Evaluating Landscape Aesthetics

UrbanTHINK

Valuing and Evaluating Landscape Aesthetics

Join us as we listen to our colleagues share their lessons learned while evaluating and mitigating impacts to scenic quality in the landscape. We’ll discuss why it is important for shaping communities and our quality of life!

$5 discount for CNU members. 

Boxed lunch included. 

Salt Lake City Public Library, Conference Room B, doors open at 11:30

Speakers for this UrbanTHINK are:

Craig Churchward, FASLA/PLA

Craig Churchward is a Senior Landscape Architect with HDR in Minneapolis.  He has nearly 40 years of professional experience fitting complex and controversial transportation projects into the natural environment and the social fabric of affected communities. Craig is a recognized national expert in visual impact assessment and the integration of transportation projects with their surrounding context. He also recently completed writing a new soon-to-be-published AASHTO manual, Creating Complete Roadway Corridors: A Guide to Transportation Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design. His work includes orchestrating the aesthetic design of Legacy Parkway in Salt Lake City for UDOT. 

Joe Donaldson, ASLA, PLA

Joe Donaldson, ASLA, PLA, is a landscape architect and environmental planner with Ecology & Environment’s Salt Lake City office. He holds an MLA from Utah State University and an A.B. in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley. With over 30 years’ experience working in the public and private sectors, his expertise includes visual impact assessment, environmental compliance and permitting, ecological restoration, and open space planning and design.

Whitney May

Whitney May graduated from Utah State University in 2014 with a Bachelor in Landscape Architecture which she now applies as an environmental planner based in Salt Lake City with Logan Simpson. Throughout her career, she has conducted visual resource inventories and analyses, vegetation and bird surveys, and National Historic Trail and cultural landscape inventories throughout nine states in the western US. Whitney’s multidisciplinary experience has provided her the opportunity to develop an understanding of planning efforts at various scales as well as the complexities of public land management.