Karl Linn, FASLA Retired Professor University of Pennsylvania Registered Landscape Architect in Four States 1989 Co-founder of the Urban Habitat Program San Francisco Bay Area Category: Knowledge and Service to the Profession "Since construciton began through self-help effort in the spring of 1997, the Peralta Community Art Garden in Berkeley, CA has become a most successful neighborhood commons. This community meeting place greets people with its sky reaching bamboo pole and its string of Tibetan prayer flags waving in the wind. In the garden works of art and eco-friendly innovations intermingle with lush and lush and colorful vegetation. The uplifting ambiance of celebration that imbues the garden manifests the souring spirit of people whose outpouring of caring creativity and community has built the garden."