The Unfulfilled Leadership Promise
Joseph E. Brown, FASLA presents leadership strategies
that will ensure landscape architects will be leading practice teams, government
practice, non-profits, community groups, and policy at all levels.
"An informed, globalized society or profession looks
less to a single, powerful leader. We're no longer a pyramid. The corollary,
however, is fewer jobs for followers. We must accept some of the burden and
risk of leadership.
The Internet will let communities and organizations
themselves initiate resource planning and land design. Will a comprehensive,
revitalized, community-integrated landscape professional be their resource for
ideas, knowledge, skills and leadership?
Pitching in, being open and energetic about what's
needed right now, is a lot of what makes broad-based leadership. But we need
more than individual good works to move forward as a profession-we need to take
a collective risk.
Today's dismal standard of water and air quality, urban
management, suburban community and transportation design will yield, not to
theoretical debate but to consumer rebellion, spurred by the concrete future seen
on the home office monitor.
Sped by the lack of U.S. graduates, landscape architecture
is more and more an international community."
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