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I am a first year landscape architecture graduate student at the University of Michigan. I moved from Burlington,Vermont to Ann Arbor, Michigan to go to school. Several years ago I worked at the Center for Rural Studies at the University of Vermont and helped create several web pages pertaining to community development. I invite you to explore the Center's web site and peruse the pages about Rural Communities and Economic Development, specifically the link to Visual Analysis Materials that I co-authored.
The three-year master of landscape architecture program at the University of Michigan is unique and exciting. Courses I am enrolled in this semester include a watershed design studio course, a visual communication class, an Introduction to Soils lecture and lab, as well as a course called Geography: Spatial Analysis. In addition to requiring the posting of a GIS mapping project on the web, the latter course has encouraged me to consider what information to include on a personal web page. This fall I have also been involved in helping a professor with research for a book that addresses monetary value of natural resources. One organization has produced software that attempts to value urban trees. Visit the web page that describes the software package: www.americanforests.org/garden/trees_cities_sprawl/citygreen/citygreen_subhome.html.
In the winter semester of 2000 the courses I will be enrolled in a landscape ecology studio, a site engineering course and a course called the history of human interaction with the land. Come back to my web page in the spring and see what's new!
Last updated: December 13, 1999