Sustainability: Redefining Design, Reinforcing Nature
American Society of Landscape Architects Central States Chapters Regional Meeting
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

April 22- 24, 2010

 

Gary Scott-

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Gary D. Scott, FASLA,
President
American Society of Landscape Architects
Gary Scott is currently the President of the 17,000 member American Society of Landscape Architects. His lifelong focus has been planning and designing parks and open space, reclaiming abandoned mines, preserving forests and stream corridors, and transforming farm fields. These outdoor environments served as the primary setting of his childhood in Illinois, and creating and preserving them for everyone to enjoy motivates his career.

As director of Parks and Recreation for the city of West Des Moines, Iowa, Gary leads a dynamic department in a rapidly growing suburban community. His work emphasizes serving the public. Gary was honored to receive IPRA’s Slattery Award in 2003, the governor of Iowa’s Volunteer Award in 1992, to be profiled in Building Stone Magazine’s “Best and Brightest Architects” in 2003, and to be inducted as an ASLA Fellow in 2007.