FRI-C5 Shaping the Public Realm Through Public Service

Robin Gyorgyfalvy, ASLA
Presenter
Deschutes National Forest
Bend, OR 
United States
Robin Gyorgyfalvy is an award winning landscape architect committed to public service through conservation education and environmental design as the Scenic Byways Program Leader for Deschutes National Forest in Bend, Oregon. She served as Chair of Oregon State Board of Architects, Chair of Bend 2030 Community Vision Board, and Urban Renewal Agency Board Member for the City of Bend. She currently serves on America's Byways Resource Center Advisory Committee, Transportation Research Board Landscape and Environmental Design Committee, Bend 2030, Deschutes Cultural Coalition of the Oregon Trust, and Chair of the ASLA Public Practice Advisory Committee.
Mark Zarrillo, FASLA
Presenter
Symmes Maini McKee Associates
Cambridge, MA 
United States
Mark J. Zarrillo, FASLA, AICP is a Partner at SMMA (Symmes Maini & McKee Associates, Inc.) Cambridge, MA. He is managing Principal of the Rhode Island office and Director of Planning for the firm. Mark is an expert in campus master planning with 40 years of planning experience for institutions worldwide. He has been involved in a broad range of planning projects within the disciplines of urban design, landscape architecture, campus planning, environmental planning and design, and comprehensive planning.
 
Christine Pattillo, ASLA
Moderator
PGAdesign
Oakland, CA 
United States
Chris Pattillo founded PGAdesign in 1979 and is the current President. Chris has been actively engaged in community affairs throughout her career. She is currently a Planning Commissioner and member of the Design Review Board in Oakland, California - a city of 400,000. Previously Chris served on the Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board, the Parks & Historical Commission for Alameda County, and a Citizen's Advisory Committee to determine the fate of Oakland's City Hall after the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
Fri, 9/28: 1:30 PM  - 3:00 PM 
FRI-C5 
Education Session 
Phoenix Convention Center 
Room: 129a 
PDH Credits: 1.5 
Landscape architects care about our built environment and communities. To that end, many choose to serve on public boards and commissions that influence public policy. You could be one. This session will show what it is like being on “the other side of the dais.”

Learning Objective

Appreciate what it is like to serve in a public capacity as a local appointed or elected official.

Learn how landscape architects are influencing public policy broadly in cities and regions.

Find out the pros and cons of serving on local, regional, or statewide boards or commissions.
 

Presentations


Education Credits

AICP
FL
LA CES/HSW

Primary Topic

Other