This note was posted today to the Landscape Architecture Electronic Forum, LARCH-L:
This is a vacancy announcement for the Chief Landscape Architect Position for the U.S. Dept of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, based in Washington, D.C. The position duties would include policy and program leadership in the arenas of visual resources, byways, accessibility, facility design, land use planning, as well as recreation planning.
Having served in this position myself, up until just a few months ago, I can personally attest that this is a fantastic opportunity for a challenging, professionally rewarding job working with an outstanding group of people on really exciting issues.
I would highly encourage anyone interested to inquire. NOTE: This position is also advertised open to ALL U.S. Citizens, so it's a golden opportunity for anyone seeking federal employment for the first time.
Brad Cownover
Director, Scenic Conservation
Scenic America
202.638.0550 ext. 12
cownover@scenic.org
BOB JACOBSON is fascinated by the experience of experience. A planner and technologist, Bob has a Ph.D. in Urban Planning & Design from UCLA. He's been a policy researcher, technology CEO, science writer, and consultant. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied cellular telephony's impacts on transborder communities in the Nordic Arctic Circle. Bob edited Information Design (MIT Press 2000) and is now writing a book on the theory and practice of creating edifying, transformative experiences.
PAULA THORNTON says, "Understanding human behavior (economics), optimizing interactions (design) and facilitating conversations (markets), are the means to achieve strategic differentiation. This is the focus of our discipline. It is not a 'nice to have'‚ and is not, like documentation once was, an afterthought. It is the means by which to start a strategic discussion and the means by which to drive a tactical initiative. All design should be evidence-based."
