Cincinnati, Ohio, will be the sight of the 1985 American Society of Landscape Architects Annual Meeting and Educational Exhibit from October 12-15. The annual meeting will focus its attention on the skills needed to respond to the public?EUR??,,????'???s expectations of landscape architects.

Entitled, ?EUR??,,????'??Design for People: Expectations and Response,?EUR??,,????'?? the meeting will look into the skills through the eyes of landscape architects. The program will feature well known speakers and hands-on workshops.

Highlighting the meeting will be the presentation of the first national Community Assistance Team?EUR??,,????'???s proposal to redevelop the Eggleston Avenue area of Cincinnati. The area is a network of elevated freeways and parking lots. The ASLA will donate the year-long study to the city towards its 1988 Bicentennial. The Cincinnati Bicentennial Commission and local businessmen and citizens are enthusiastically supporting the program.

Adele Chatfield-Taylor, director of the Design Arts program of the National Endowment for the Arts; Robert Burle Marx, the world renowned landscape architect who will receive the ASLA Medal; Mike Vance, a proponent of ?EUR??,,????'??holistic design;?EUR??,,????'?? and Grady Clay, editor of Landscape Architecture from 1960 through 1984 will be featured speakers during the general sessions.

Twenty-nine education sessions and three special programs will focus on topics including ways to improve business / management skills, microcomputer applications for landscape architects, historic landscape preservation, how to combat visual pollution and a variety of design issues.

Participants of the conference will be afforded the opportunity to tour Cincinnati?EUR??,,????'???s parks and gardens, its richly ethnic neighborhoods and King Island Theme Park. A golf tournament, open to men and women will be a new feature of the Monday afternoon program. After the conference a trip to the exclusive horse farms of Kentucky?EUR??,,????'???s bluegrass country is slated.

Highlighting the closing Annual Banquet, John L. Wacker of Weston, Massachusetts will be installed as the new president of the ASLA, as well as the installation of other new ASLA officers.

The ASLA Education Exhibit will take place at the Cincinnati Convention Center between October 12 and 14.

The purpose of the exhibit is to offer exposure for companies in the Iandscape architecture field. This is the only national meeting of landscape architects this year and the only opportunity to exhibit at their national trade show.