Gordon Brent INGRAM

I am focused on developing and evaluating innovative environmental planning and design methods to create and expand networks of parks, open space and other protected areas as part of sustainable economic and social development and have expertise in research and teaching in the following fields:

· strategies for transitions to sustainability and the role of ecological, social and cultural infrastructure in the development of metropolitan areas with an emphasis on open space, habitat, agriculture and cultural facilities;

· more inclusive urban planning and design frameworks related to outdoor and public space and responses to social inequities and conflicts (related to access, safety, comfort and equity – often involving social groups defined by gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, & culture);

· public art & arts production infrastructure as part of neighbourhood development, public conservations on social equity, and urban open space planning & design;

· studio arts production on the interface of photobased, site-based and public art and related urban design;

· integration of knowledge, perspectives and priorities of tribal and other traditional communities into broader frameworks of land use decision-making;

· sexual minorities, neighbhourhoods, and urban public space;

· conservation of heritage landscapes and neighbourhoods;

· stakeholder analysis as part of environmental planning;

· site planning for environmentally sensitive areas;

· forest and biodiversity conservation and restoration strategies with research and analysis employing linked digital technologies such as remote sensing, geographic information systems, decision-support and digital design tools;

· applications of landscape ecology, and related natural and social science research methods, for environmental planning and land management;

· policy development and cross-sectoral planning as part of implementation of international agreements especially the Convention on Biological Diversity, the World Heritage Convention, and the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples;

· field research and analytical methods for environmental histories especially as part of environmental impact analysis; and

· photographic documentation of communities, environmental conflicts & urban design issues.

Fountain at dusk, Shalimar Gardens, Lahore, February 2004 photograph by Gordon Brent Ingram

University of California, Berkeley, 1989, Doctor of Philosophy in Environmental Planning, Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, College of Environmental Design.

examination fields

· Theories of environmental planning and organizational development for conservation of biological diversity and respective habitat and open space

· Environmental impact assessment

· Environmental policy and planning frameworks for island ecosystems with pressures for conservation, logging, tourism and socio-economic development

Ph.D. dissertation

Planning district networks of protected habitat conservation of biological diversity: A manual with applications for marine islands with primary rainforest. Available through University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan as dissertation 9006370. Dissertation abstract available in a PDF file: gordon-brent-ingram-phd-dissertation-abstract1

case studies in doctoral research

· Burnaby Island, Gwaii Haanas, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada

· Siberut Island, Sumatera Barat, Indonesia

· Fergusson Island, D’Entrecasteaux Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea

doctoral committee

· Richard Meier, Professor (now Emeritus), Department of City and Regional Planning / Department of Landscape Architecture / Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley

· Ray Dasmann, Professor (now Emeritus), Environmental Studies Board, University of California at Santa Cruz

· Bill Lidicker, Professor (now Emeritus), Environmental Sciences, and Director, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley

· Robert Twiss, Professor (now Emeritus), Department of Landscape Architecture, Berkeley

additional doctoral research

· Early exploration (in the early 1980s) of the implications of landscape ecology for landscape architecture, regional planning, and sustainability (professors with the most influence: Bill Lidicker and Ray Dasmann)

· Design of networks of open space as part of community planning (professor with the greatest influence: Eldon Beck the original designer of Whistler, British Columbia)

· Design and development of some of the first geographic information systems for biodiversity conservation emphasizing fine-scaled spatial data (beginning in 1983 with the first SUN Workstations used by environmental management GIS and using of UNIX, C, Pascal and GRASS, and early ESRI ARC INFO software) (most influential professor: Dr. Robert Twiss who designed early GIS for regional planning in such areas as Lake Tahoe, California / Nevada)

· Assessment of use and social conflict in parks (professor with the greatest influence: Clare Cooper-Marcus)

· Landscape aesthetics and related frameworks for urban and landscape design (professor with the greatest influence: Burt Litton the founder of the United States Forest Services visual resources analysis programmes)

· Photographic documentation of landscapes and communities

· Conservation planning theory and institutional analysis (professor with the most influence: Jeff Romm)

Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio / San Francisco campus), Master of Science in Ecosystem Management. Concentration: Rural and wildland planning.

M.Sc. thesis Fragments: Management, protection and restoration proposals for thirteen ecological reserves in British Columbia, Canada. A report to the Ecological Reserves Committee and Advisory Board of the Ministry of Landscape, Parks and Housing of the Government of BC, June 1981. Thesis available through University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, thesis number 1317516. Thesis abstract available in a PDF file: ingram-1981-fragments-management-protection-and-restoration-proposals-for-thirteen-ecological-reserves-in-british-columbia

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) in Photography with an emphasis on documentation of landscapes, communities and environmental conflicts. The major teachers were: Reagan Louie author of the 1991 Aperture book, Towards a Truer Life, portraying urban space in China after the Cultural Revolution; Linda Connor author of Solos; and Ellen Brooks.

The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with related studies in environmental design and aesthetics.

school

· New Community School, Oakland, California, 1, secondary school graduation focused on preparation for entry to university and related activism and scholarship.

· Oak Bay Junior Secondary School, Victoria, British Columbia - Honour Roll.

· Willows Elementary School, Victoria, British Columbia.

· Brentwood Bay Elementary School, Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.