North Carolina ASLA Chapter

Augustine Wong, ASLA, Chapter President

In April, N.C. Chapter members gathered at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham for the Spring conference. Randolph Hester, FASLA was the keynote speaker. Other presenters covered topics that included environmental planning, design, complete streets, urban design and storm water management.
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The North Carolina ASLA chapter holds two conferences a year, an educational conference in the spring and another in the fall, which also includes our state awards presentation.

Presentations included professors and students from North Carolina State University. Also participating in the conference were past ASLA President Rodney Swink, incoming ASLA President Susan Hatchell and APA President Mitchell Silver, AICP.

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On April 5, members joined with state legislators for a legislative breakfast to discuss issues relevant to the practice of landscape architecture.

North Carolina Chapter member Christine Lockwood Hilt was elected to the 2011 ASLA Council of Fellows in the Leadership and Management category.

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That day, landscape architects from the Coastal Section came together in downtown Wilmington along the Cape Fear River to educate the public about the profession. All attendees brought with them a board with images of projects they have done in the Wilmington area and around the country. Speaking with pedestrians, the landscape architects talked with people about the profession and also listened to what people would like to see in the new riverfront park in Wilmington.

The two-day Spring conference featured a social at the Durham Bulls ballpark and tours of the North Carolina Museum of Art, American Tobacco Trail Greenway and Duke Gardens.
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On Oct. 6, NCASLA along with the Sierra Club, the Dix Visionaries and Triangle Greenways Council held an event bringing business and community leaders together to support the vision of a destination park on 306 acres known as Dix Hill in Raleigh. The chapter passed a resolution supporting the vision. A documentary on Olmsted and his work was the focus of the evening that included comments from Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker, Wake County Commissioner Ervin Portman and Senator Neil Hunt.

To see other 2011 ASLA chapter reports click here.