{"id":67884,"date":"2007-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-mar-8\/"},"modified":"2007-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T00:00:00","slug":"uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-mar-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/02\/uri-landscape-architecture-lecture-series-mar-8\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series, Mar. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tWind farm issues to be discussed<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 27, 2007 \u2013 Terry DeWan, principal of Terrence J. DeWan and Associates, will discuss landscape design issues related to wind power facilities as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series on Thursday, Mar. 8 at 7 p.m. The event, entitled \u201cWind Power\/ Flower Power: Commonalities\/ Opportunities,\u201d will be held in Weaver Auditorium at the Coastal Institute on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Kingston campus and is free and open to the public.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cThe talk will explore some of the conflicts inherent in energy development and commercial development, key issues as we try to achieve a greater level of sustainability while maintaining our unique sense of place,\u201d said DeWan.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tDeWan has over 35 years of professional experience in landscape architecture, visual resource assessment, and site planning.  He has developed design guidelines for villages and towns, transit oriented developments, and prepared downtown revitalization plans for cities around New England.  Current projects include the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, a scenic inventory methodology for the coast of Maine, visual impact assessments for wind farms, and vegetation management plans for conservation subdivisions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAfter working eleven years as a founding partner of Mitchell-DeWan Associates, he established his firm in 1988 in Yarmouth, Maine, which is known for its ability to balance computer-generated products with hand drawn graphics.  These techniques have been employed to ascertain the impacts that wind farms, LNG facilities, power lines, bridges and cargo ports will have on the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe remaining speakers in the lecture series are Warren Byrd, principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz, on \u201cDesign and Sustainability: Are They Mutually Exclusive?\u201d on April 5, and Meg Calkins, associate professor at Ball State University, on \u201cWhat Makes Sustainable?\u201d on April 19.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture series is co-sponsored by the College of the Environment and Life Sciences, the Rhode Island chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association. For more information about the series, contact the 溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Community Planning and Landscape Architecture at 874-2249 or Professor Will Green at wagre@uri.edu.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind farm issues to be discussed &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 February 27, 2007 \u2013 Terry DeWan, principal of Terrence J. DeWan and Associates, will discuss landscape design issues related to wind power facilities as part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Landscape Architecture Lecture Series on Thursday, Mar. 8 at 7 p.m. The event, entitled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}