I’m thrilled to let you know that of a new book, edited by Rachel Kaplan and Avik Basu that has been published. Fostering Reasonableness: Supportive Environments for Bringing Out Our Best is available at Amazon or you can read it for free on line here.

Here’s a short story in Chicago Magazine about Dongying Li’s incredible work on views from classroom windows and learning.

The Dirt, a blog of the American Society of Landscape Architects published a story about our work on classroom views to trees and student’s capacity to pay attention and recover from stress.

Here's a short story in Medical Xpress about our work on views to street trees and recovery from stressful experiences.

The Alliance for Community Trees has a short story about an article Meghan Holtan, Susan Dieterten, and I published in the journal Environment & Behavior.

The men in EJP's Productive Prison Landscape program published a manual describing how to design and build a composting program in prison. Download it here!

My colleague and friend Kathy Wolf and her colleague Elizabeth Housley have published a novice-friendly summary of the literature linking exposure to nature and stress recovery.

Ground, the publication of the Ontario Association of Landscape Architecture published a feature interview with me about the power of having everyday contact with green landscapes. You can see a copy here.

I gave a Rackham Centennial lecture at the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment. You can get a quick summary of it here.

The Dirt, published by the American Society of Landscape Architecture, wrote a short article about a talk I gave in Washington DC in November for the good folks at Casey Trees. You can read about it here.

Welcome


I get to wake up every morning and do things I love:

• I teach students in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois how to create healthy, sustainable places. I also serve as the Head of the Department.
• I conduct research that explores the extent to which, and in what ways, urban design impacts human health and wellbeing and I get to share the findings with scientists, designers, and policymakers. You can read about our work here.
• I am an active member of the Education Justice Project (EJP).
• I am a board member for the University YMCA, and the non-profit reDirect. I have the pleasure of being a Senior Fellow at the National Council for Science and the Environment.
• I am a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the Environmental Design Research Association, and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture.

I am trained as a landscape architect and have taught environmental design at Kansas State University, the University of Michigan, and at Illinois. You can download a copy of my resume here.

I live in Urbana with my wife Rebecca Ginsburg, son Eamon, and daughters Anna and Isabella.

If you’d like to contact me, you can email me or call (217) 244-5156.