Lecture: James Urban, FASLA

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 30 Aug 2011 from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location:Kocimski Auditorium, 101 Design
Cost:free
Contact:Doug Johnston
Phone:515-294-5490
Channel:College of Design
Categories:Lectures
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Founder and owner of Urban Trees + Soils, James R. Urban, FASLA, is a landscape architect and urban arborist with more than 30 years of experience in urban development and planting trees in difficult urban sites. He is currently working with Workshop: Ken Smith Landscape Architect on the renovation of Nollen Plaza in Des Moines.

Urban is a leader in the preservation and restoration of the urban landscape. He has written and lectured extensively and has been responsible for the introduction of numerous innovations, including many of the current standards relating to urban tree plantings. His 2008 book, "Up by Roots: Healthy Trees and Soils in the Built Environment," won a National Honor Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2009 and is becoming one of the principal references for landscape architects, architects, urban foresters and planners who are designing, specifying, installing and managing trees in the built environment.

Urban was instrumental in the development of structural cells and structural planting soils for use under sidewalk pavements, as well as other innovative soil and planting concepts. A Fellow of the ASLA, he was awarded the 2007 ASLA Landscape Architect Medal of Excellence.