Landscape Architecture’s Role in Low Impact Development Designing For Sustainability, Spring 2013: Recent Episodes
Loren Oki
UC Davis's Landscape Architecture lunchbag lecture series is offered this spring by professor Loren Oki and focuses on peoples' need for development that is aesthetically and functionally designed and yet tempered by a concern for sustainability.
Our ninth and final lecture: Josh Bradt, watershed specialist and project manager at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, discusses greening up the urban streets of El Cerrito.
Lecture 8: Marq Truscott, LDA advisory board member and friend of the program, discusses designing parks today. Marq is President of the firm, Quadriga, in Sacramento.
Lecture 7: LDA program alumnus and visiting lecturer, Kevin Perry, of Urban Rain Design studio in Portland, OR, discusses managing storm water in an urban setting.
Lecture 6: Aaron Majors, owner and department manager of construction at Cagwin & Dorward of Novato, CA, discusses his views on being a contractor today - a contractor who is sensitive to sustainability.
Lecture 5: Eric Berntsen, staff environmental scientist at the California State Water Resources Control Board, proposes how he envisions managing landscapes for their own sustainability and watershed functionality.
Lecture 4: Cheryl Buckwalter, executive director of EcoLandscape California and Landscape Liaisons, discusses her ideas for designing residential landscapes for California's Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance.
Lecture 3: Julie Saare-Edmonds of the Water Use Efficiency Branch of the California Department of Water Resources discusses her ideas for landscapes for a new California.