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 American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) is the American Planning Association's professional institute. AICP certifies professionals in the United States in the field of town planning and assists planners in the areas of ethics, profess ...
.
He attended
Pomona College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2006, he received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in
Washington, D.C.
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He also won several awards for his 1998 Radnor Gateways Enhancement Strategy in
Radnor, Pennsylvania
Radnor is a community located approximately 13 miles west of Philadelphia, in the Main Line suburbs. It straddles Montgomery and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania. The community was named after Radnor, in Wales.
Radnor is home to Cabrini Universi ...
.
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''. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 335 libraries He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s.
He resides in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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and
Newport, Rhode Island
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, at Bellevue House. Additionally, he is one of the Directors and Officers of
Fathers & Families, a
fathers' rights organization.
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Publications
*Fleming, Ronald Lee.'' The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design.'' London: Merrell, 2007.
*Fleming, Ronald Lee, Rachel Goldsmith, and J. A. Chewning.'' Saving Face: How Corporate Franchise Design Can Respect Community Identity.'' Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, 1994. OCLC 30925448
*Fleming, Ronald Lee, and Renata von Tscharner. ''Place Makers: Creating Public Art That Tells You Where You Are : with an Essay on Planning and Policy.'' Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
Fleming, Ronald Lee. ''Facade Stories: Changing Faces of Main Street : Storefronts and How to Care for Them.'' Cambridge, MA: Townscape Institute, 1982.
*Fleming, Ronald Lee, Renata von Tscharner, and George Melrod.'' Place Makers: Public Art That Tells You Where You Are.'' Cambridge, MA.: Townscape Institute, 1981. OCLC 30925448
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Notes
External links
Homepage of The Townscape Institute
Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners
The Art of Placemaking Official Publisher's Site
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American urban planners
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni
Living people
Fathers' rights activists
Pomona College alumni