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Community Design & Internship
X401.7 (2 semester units in Landscape Architecture)
Advanced students gain hands-on experience working on real projects for Bay Area communities in this nine-week internship course sponsored by Urban Ecology. Students learn how urban planning, ecology, and public participation help design and build healthier cities. Students spend one workday per week addressing all issues of this nonprofit as they work on different projects and learn the benefits and process of community design (one of the most hands-on, interactive, and integrated ways of working in the field of landscape architecture). Students also attend weekly lectures to discuss and review their projects.
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Wed. June 4, San Francisco
KATHERINE MELCHER, M.L.A., is a registered landscape architect and community design director at Urban Ecology, a nonprofit community design firm. At Urban Ecology, she works with communities in the Bay Area to redesign schoolyards, parks, and streetscapes. Prior to that, she worked for a private land planning and landscape architecture firm in San Diego, where she specialized in community-based planning and design projects. She received her master of landscape architecture degree from Louisiana State University and has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Vassar College.
- 12 meetings
- June 4 to Aug. 20: Wed., 6:30-8 pm
- San Francisco: Room 212, South of Market Center, 95 Third St.
- $825 (EDP 024166)
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three times a year in early April, July and December.