Ronald Lee Fleming
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Ronald Lee Fleming, F.A.I.C.P., is the founder and president of The Townscape Institute, a not-for-profit public interest planning organization founded in the United States in 1979. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
The organization aims to support place meaning through conservation and visual enhancement of the built environments, including research publications, public art projects, urban design, and consulting. In 2006, Fleming received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in Washington DC. He also won several awards for his 1998 Radnor Gateways Enhancement Strategy in Radnor, Pennsylvania
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He has written several books on the urban landscape covering preservation, corporate visual responsibility and placemaking
, most recently The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design. He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s. Fleming attended Pomona College
and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and Newport, Rhode Island
, at Bellevue House. Addditionally, he is one of the Directors and Officers of Fathers & Families, a fathers' rights
organization.
The organization aims to support place meaning through conservation and visual enhancement of the built environments, including research publications, public art projects, urban design, and consulting. In 2006, Fleming received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in Washington DC. He also won several awards for his 1998 Radnor Gateways Enhancement Strategy in Radnor, Pennsylvania
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Radnor is a wealthy Main Line township. It is an unincorporated community in Radnor Township of Delaware County and Tredyffrin Township of Chester County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It lies near the communities of Villanova and St...
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He has written several books on the urban landscape covering preservation, corporate visual responsibility and placemaking
Placemaking
Placemaking is a term that began to be used in the 1970s by architects and planners to describe the process of creating squares, plazas, parks, streets and waterfronts that will attract people because they are pleasurable or interesting...
, most recently The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design. He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s. Fleming attended Pomona College
Pomona College
Pomona College is a private, residential, liberal arts college in Claremont, California. Founded in 1887 in Pomona, California by a group of Congregationalists, the college moved to Claremont in 1889 to the site of a hotel, retaining its name. The school enrolls 1,548 students.The founding member...
and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
and Newport, Rhode Island
Newport, Rhode Island
Newport is a city on Aquidneck Island in Newport County, Rhode Island, United States, about south of Providence. Known as a New England summer resort and for the famous Newport Mansions, it is the home of Salve Regina University and Naval Station Newport which houses the United States Naval War...
, at Bellevue House. Addditionally, he is one of the Directors and Officers of Fathers & Families, a fathers' rights
Fathers' rights
The fathers' rights movement is a movement whose members are primarily interested in issues related to family law, including child custody and child support that affect fathers and their children. Many of its members are fathers who desire to share the parenting of their children equally with their...
organization.