Tom Leader's career is distinguished by his ability to design and build artful parks, campuses and urban projects and apply those talents to communities that have the most to gain from them. Among his artistically original projects based on concepts of local culture are Shanghai Carpet, exhibited at the 2005 MoMA Groundswell Exhibit and Pool Pavilion Forest, which received a 2009 ASLA Honor Award. He is a respected advocate for the role of landscape architecture in the transformation of cities: Birmingham's Railroad Park, RiverFirst (five miles of the Minneapolis riverfront) and Richmond Bayway, his firm's current pro bono initiative in San Francisco, are prime examples.

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