Article author Dave Linstrum (left) with artist and architect James R. Turner, FAAR, FASLA (and senior Fulbright lecturer). The site rendering seen here is reproduced above.

Meet Dave Linstrum

Linstrum has traveled extensively in Europe, the U.K. and the Middle East. He was a principal planner on land planning projects in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. He has always loved to draw and chose landscape architecture in order to turn his design visions into reality. He has a particular skill in simple cartoon-like illustrations for design concepts. His sketches have been published in books used by landscape architecture students nationwide. In his early studies his heroes were landscape architects Ian McHarg, who wrote the classic Design with Nature in 1965, and Lawrence Halprin, whose work inspired him to work with nature.

This article is a response to the September editorial in which the publisher asked for comments on rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.

Linstrum has studied New Towns built in London after WW II and visited many of them. He served as a Planner for Fairfax County, Va. (the location of Reston New Town) and was on the planning team for West Valley, Ill.?EUR??,,????'?????<

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