References
- The total funding for the study was $110,000: the ford Foundation provided $90,000: the ASLA raised $20,000 through contributions. The director of the study, Albert Fein, is a historian and educator. The consultants were Edmund N Bacon, planner and architect; Charles Burchard, educator and architect; Stanton A Cook, ecologist and educator; Henry L Diamond, Commissioner, Environmental Conservation, New York State; James Marston Fitch, environmental theorist and architectural historian; Robert Gutman, sociologist and educator; Paul D Spreiregen, architect and planner; and William H Whyte, social and environmental theorist.
- Copies of Albert Fein, A Study of the Profession of Landscape Architecture: Technical Report can be obtained from the Department of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass 02138. The other five sections of the study are: ∜The Study of Education at Schools of Landscape Architecture;∝ ∜The Library Survey;∝ ∜Responses from the National Consultants;∝ ∜Summary and Conclusions of the Director;∝ and ∜Appendixes.∝ Supervising the study was an Executive Committee consisting of Theodore Osmunds on (Chairman), Charles W Harris (Secretary), Garrett Eckbo, William Johnson, Philip H Lewis, Jr, lan McHarg, and Edward Stone II.
- See, for example, Landscape into Cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's Plans for a Greater New York City, Albert Fein, ed (Ithaca, NY, 1968) and H W S Cleveland, Landscape Architecture As Applied to the Wants of the West, Roy Lubove, ed (Pittsburgh, 1965).
- Arnold Weddle to Charles W Harris, 28 June 1977. Weddle is chairman of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield,'England and president of the Landscape Institute of Great Britain. Harris is chairman on the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University.
- Most of the tables included in this paper report information for ASLA members only. Where appropriate, data for students are also included.
- Income data refer to the year of the survey, 1971.
- In the full report of the survey, we mention a finding that is of some interest in this context; namely, that the more allied professionals have worked with landscape architects, the more impressed they have been with the abilities of landscape architects in all areas. See Part 1, p 38, of the Study Report.