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Sponsors
The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) is a national professional society that represents the landscape architecture profession in the United States. Founded in 1899, the ASLA currently represents more than 12,000 members and has 47 chapters across the country with headquarters in Washington, DC. Private, public, and academic practitioners have a professional home at ASLA as do international practitioners and members of related professions. Landscape architecture is the art and science of analysis, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land. The scope of the profession includes site planning, garden design, environmental restoration, town or urban planning, park and recreation planning, regional planning, and historic preservation. Practitioners share a commitment of achieving a balance between preservation, use and management of the country's resources.
In a partnership with New School Unversity, New York University and Pratt Institute, Regional Plan Association has convened The Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York to develop strategies for the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. The Civic Alliance is a coalition of more than 75 business, community and environmental groups representing a cross-section of New York and the Region that is providing a broad "umbrella" for civic planning and advocacy efforts in support of the rebuilding of Downtown New York. The Alliance is working closely with the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Empire State Development Corporation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the City of New York to create a bold vision for a revitalized downtown.
Environmental Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 300,000 members. Since 1967, we have linked science, economics and law to create innovative, equitable and cost-effective solutions to society's most urgent environmental problems.
NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. In addition to our New York headquarters, we have three regional offices. See our contact page for office addresses.
The New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) is the non-profit, nonpartisan political arm of New York's environmental community. NYLCV seeks to make environmental protection a priority with New York's elected officials, political candidates, businesses and voters by mobilizing New Yorkers as a political force on behalf of the environment. NYLCV's educational arm is the New York Conservation Education Fund.
Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit technical assistance, research and educational organization. PPS' mission—to create and sustain public places that build communities—is achieved through programs in parks, plazas and central squares; transportation; public buildings and architecture and public markets. Since its founding in 1975, the organization has worked in over 1,000 communities, within the U.S. and abroad, helping people to grow their public space into vital community places.
Rebuild Downtown Our Town (R.Dot) is the voice of lower Manhattan. The R.Dot coalition is comprised of Lower Manhattan residents, businesses, community and business associations, artists, colleges, professionals, architects, designers together with public officials and appointees. They meet regularly to discuss, research, and develop a collective vision that can shape our new downtown. Member groups of R.Dot represent the voices of thousands of people who have been directly affected by the destruction of the World Trade Towers.
R.Dot's vision is to create a 21st century living, working, sustainable environment that symbolizes the American spirit and its humanistic values; honors our dead; reflects our modern cultural, technological, economic and social thought, our global financial and economic leadership, and a multicultural society.
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