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Article: Landscape Architecture Community Opposes U of Arizona Plan to Close School of Landscape Architecture.
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- January 15, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Leaders from across the landscape architecture community expressed their opposition to a plan presented yesterday by the University of Arizona (UA) to close its School of Landscape Architecture.
"All of our data shows there is a dire need for more landscape architecture degree programs, not fewer," said Paul F. Morris, FASLA, president of The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the lead urban designer with Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc. "Arizona is struggling to balance development and population growth with environmental concerns -- issues at the very core of what landscape ...