Robert Ryan

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Education: BSLA, CalPoly San Luis Obispo; MLA, Master's of Urban Planning and PhD in Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan
ASLA Chapter: Boston
Category: Knowledge

Robert Ryan has increased the profession's knowledge base with regard to human factors, green infrastructure planning and research methods. He represents the profession in policy arenas from visual resource management to sustainable sites, and has enlightened us on how people develop emotional and psychological connections to landscape. He has taught a generation of landscape architects to engage in research as a practice strategy and thereby has inspired an ongoing quest to measure the effects of the profession on the world at large.

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