| Sumner Swaner, ASLA, AICP
The Bright Green Line
Sumner Swaner presents an example of work demonstrating how environmentalists and psychologists bridge the gap between disciplines in community projects that implement ecological ethics in grass-roots driven town
American habitation, which for the last several decades has been characterized by sprawling residential subdivisions containing only two elements: house lots and roads. Such patterns of development have removed all tralternative to conventional suburban habitation emerges within a more sustainable framework for accommodating the human population. This shift in thought embraces design strategies that blend human communities int
relationships to bioregional ecological systems, long-cherished cultural and historical resources, and the working landscapes that sustain our communities. This alternative strategy relies on the pre-development identificat
infrastructure that is similar to the gray infrastructure that is conventionally planned into human developments. Integrating this bright green line into human communities yields mental, emotional, spiritual and physical bene
Sumner Swaner, ASLA, AICP possesses a unique combination of training and perspectives. A talented landscape architect, he is also an environmental planner, wildlife biologist and developer who melds these disciplin
been published in leading magazines, including Landscape Architecture, Planning, and Urban Land. Currently, Swaner commits his time to community planning projects and educational engagements. He is the founder o
ranging from small city meetings to the 2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development. |