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Name
  
Randolph Hester



Books
  
Design for Ecological Democracy, Community design primer, Planning neighborhood space with people

Randolph T. Hester is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Hester is also a sociologist, practicing landscape architect and co-director of Community Development by Design, a neighborhood planning organization focused on community participation and input. Randolph Hester has also published a number of books central to the topic of designing neighborhoods, cities and landscapes; his most recent book Design for Ecological Democracy was published in September 2010.

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Biography

Hester grew up in rural North Carolina. He acquired a BA in Landscape Architecture and a BA in Sociology from North Carolina State University, and eventually went on to achieve an MA in Landscape Architecture at Harvard. Hester published his first book Neighborhood Space in 1975.

Awards and Distinctions

2011 Kevin Lynch Award - presented by MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Publications

  • Design for Ecological Democracy, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-262-51500-9
  • Living Landscape: Reading Cultural Landscape Experiences, with S. Chang, S. Wang (Eds.), Taipei: Taiwan United Force Culture Enterprise Co. Ltd, 1999.
  • A Theory for Building Community, with S. Chang, Taipei: Yungliou Press, 1999.
  • Democratic Design in the Pacific Rim, with C. Kweskin (Eds.), Mendocino, California: Ridge Times Press, 1999.
  • Techniques for Machizukuri, with M. Dohi, Gendaikikakushitsu Press, 1997.
  • The Meaning of Gardens, with M. Fancis (Eds.), Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-262-56061-0
  • Community Design Primer, Mendocino, California: Ridge Times Press, 1990. ISBN 978-0-934203-06-7
  • Community Goal Setting, with F.J. Smith, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross Inc., 1982.
  • Planning Neighborhood Space with People, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1982. ISBN 978-0-442-23223-8
  • Neighborhood Space, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross Inc., 1975.

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