Background
Musacchio, Laura R. was born in 1966 in New York, United States.
("Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social an...)
"Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social and Ecological Concerns" provides guidelines for building better parks by integrating design criteria with current social and natural science research. Small parks are too often relegated to being the step-child of municipal and metropolitan open space systems because of assumptions that their small size and isolation limits their recreational capacity and makes them ecologically less valuable than large city and county parks. This manual is arranged around twelve topics that represent key questions, contradictions, or tensions in the design of small parks. Topics cover fundamental issues for urban parks, natural systems, and human aspects. Also included are useful case studies with alternative design solutions using three different approaches for integrating research findings into small urban park design.
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Musacchio, Laura R. was born in 1966 in New York, United States.
Bachelor of Landscape Architect, 1989. Master of Landscape Architect, State University of New York, 1993. Doctor of Philosophy in Urban and Regional Science, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, College Station, 1999.
Designer design and planning firms, Orange County, California, 1989—1991. Graduate assistant State University of New York College Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, 1991—1993. Assistant professor Utah State University, Logan, 1993—1995.
Graduate assistant Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, College Station, 1995—1996, assistant lecturer, 1996—1999. Assistant professor Arizona State University, Tempe, 2000—2003, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2003—2006, associate professor, since 2006. Consultant Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, 1996—1998.
Coordinator 16th annual symposium program United States Regional Chapter, International Association of Landscape Ecology, Tempe, 1999—2001. Researcher Center Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project, since 2000.
("Designing Small Parks: A Manual for Addressing Social an...)
Member of Society Urban Ecology (United States representative, executive board since 2010), American Society Landscape Architects (member-at-large Utah chapter 1994-1995, Merit award 1989), Ecological Society of America, International Association Landscape Ecology (councillor-at-large United States Regional chapter 2002-2004, Certified of Appreciate 2004), Sigma Lambda Alpha, Beta Beta Beta.