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EducationUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MAMaster of Landscape Architecture and Master of Regional Planning 8/2008 to 5/2012

Professional InterestsBrownfield Development, Green Design, Urban Forestry, Cultural Planning, Wayfinding, Environmental Art

PAMELA J. LANDI MembershipsAmerican Society of Landscape Architects American Planning AssociationCIVIC Committee Chelmsford, MABSLA Chapter Member Emerging Professionals GroupNational Honor Member of Sigma Lambda Alpha - 2013

LEED Green Associate

ExperienceCharles River Watershed Association Blue Cities® Initiative Waltham, MA Design Intern – Chelsea Stormwater Management Plan 12/2012 to 6/2013 • Used GIS to size and locate bioretention, rain filters, rain trench and gravel wetland. • Produced AutoCAD base plan drawing, exported to Adobe Photoshop for plan rendering.• Created diagrams, photo montages and section drawings to include in a final report layout. University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA Research Assistant – Schell Bridge 1/2011 to 6/2011 • Developed conceptual ideas for a culturally sensitive open space network.• Used ArcGIS, AutoCAD and Adobe Photoshop Suite as tools to render images.• Presented ideas at a public forum.

University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst, MA Teaching Assistant – Plants In the Landscape 9/2009 to 12/2011 • Instructed students in systematic identification of woody trees and shrubs.• Drafted plant narratives for a grant exploring the use of technology as a field learning tool.• Collaborated with instructor to administer course.

Bellingham Parks and Recreation Design Development Bellingham, WAIntern Winter 2010 • Developed an exhibit that was used as part of a design negotiation with a stakeholder.• Worked on a site assessment for a cultural landscape. • Interacted with an multidisciplinary team.

1. Professional Work: Green Urban Infrastructure2. Professional Work: Open Space/Cultural Planning3. Independent Study: Analysis, Design & Planning 4. Rendering5. Technical Drawing6. GIS & Writing

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Green Infrastucture Chelsea, MA

Significance:

This internship provided experience in sizing and placement of stormwater green infrastructure. Master plans and supporting illustrations communicate a plan for Low Impact Development (LID) for five typological locations in Chelsea, MA. The results were presented to the Chelsea community in presentation and final report.

Applied Skills:

GIS, AutoCAD, Adobe Photoshop, Report Writing and Layout, Site Visits and Public Meeting, Analytical Thinking

CRWA’s Stormwater Management Plan for the City of Chelsea illustrates how low impact development stormwater management treatment systems may successfully integrate into what is a densely populated, largely impervious, ecologically challenged urban landscape. One primary task of the project was to evaluate each of the five selected sites for the feasibility of siting green stormwater infrastructure based on a minimum BMP area within a delineated drainage area that could handle a 1” storm. Using GIS to locate and size bioretention, rain trenches, tree filters and gravel wetland an export of the newly created layer along with the base layers sent to AutoCAD served as the foundation for a scaled base plan rendering, later exported again to Adobe Photoshop for color rendering. Images produced for this project are included in a final report.

Bioretention basins are built in the parking lanes on both sides of Broadway, Chelsea’s primary arterial, providing aesthetic as well as ecological benefits to the residents.

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Residents stroll along the length of a bioretention garden sited in Toomey Square

Father and his children walk to school along a decorative rain trench lined with colorful grass

Bioretention adds grasses and shrubs complementary to the marsh ecology. The basin structure contributes to the cohesion of the existing interpretive walkway that follows Mill Creek from Creekside Common to Broadway.

This diagramatic section shows a vacant lot transformed into a public park that features creative green stormwater infrastructure in its design

Cultural Landscape Northfield, MA

The Schell Bridge is one of three significant historic bridge crossings over the upper Connecticut River and represents an important link within a tri-state recreational corridor network. In the 1980’s the citizens of Northfield voted to demolish the Schell Bridge. The Friends of the Schell Bridge, a group of citizen activists, is working to reverse the scheduled demolition of the bridge and to achieve its restoration. This culturally sensitive project resulted in the production of a preliminary site assessment and conceptual visualizations of t key points proximal to the historic Schell Bridge. The emphasis was on how a recreational system could connect with the Central Business District of Northfield, Massachusetts,with local institutions and with the region and what this system might look like. As an independent producer and presenter my primary objective for this project was to generate visualizations portraying a vision of the green open space system that the Friends of the Schell Bridge and partners could use to stimulate public conversation and to advance the community’s process towards these goals.

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North of Schell Bridge Connecticut River - East Bank

Power Point cover slide wtih Schell Bridgeimage scan from an antique postcard

South of Schell Bridge Connecticut River - East Bank

Significance:

Employed as a Research Assistant for a successful, independent project involving planning and design for a cultural landscape and interconnected open space system.

Applied Skills:

Public Presentaton, Collaboration with Stakeholders, Hand Rendering, Photoshop Montage, Conceptual Thinking, GIS, Power Point Layout, Sketch Up Contour Modeling

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Open Space Design & Planning - Schell Bridge 2

Father and Son examine a park information kiosk at an entry point north of Schell Bridge adjacent toDCR boatlaunch

Family and friends gain river access at docksnorth ofSchell Bridge

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The Orchard Arboretum at Applewood is a small, public arboretum situated on Town of Amherst, MA conservation land. GIS mapping in conjunction with AutoCAD resulted in a visual and geographic inventory of all existing trees and shrubs. The conceptual plan illustrates the projected growth of the mature plants, and therefore supported discussion regarding recommendations for future or altered planting. Suggested extensions to the path system addresses the consideration of the Arboretum’s relationship to the conservation land, and how this land may connect with adjacent developments. The Arboretum committee continues to use the resulting concept master plan and associated diagrams to assist with their ongoing discussion and planning process.

Arboretum Amherst, MA

Significance:

Lead on an independent project involving planning and analysis for a small public arboretum situated on conservation land adjacent to elder housing. The graphics served as supporting visual communication for two public presentations. Using digital urban forestry tools, the Town of Amherst is developing a publicly accessible online interactive tree map based on the GIS deliverables.

Applied Skills:

Public Presentation, Collaboration with Stakeholders, AutoCAD, GIS, Adobe Photoshop, In Design and Illustrator, Conceptual and Analytical Thinking

ORCHARD ARBORETUM AT APPLEWOOD

The diagrams served to help the client visualize existing tree planting patterns. This information provides information about color, type and succession that the client can use as they move forward in their planning for future development and design of the arboretum.

Analysis, Concept Design & Planning - Orchard Arboretum 3

One important project objective was to geolocate all the trees in the arboretum. This geographical information is joined with tree type, date of planting and memorial information. The GIS databse is the basis for an online interactive tree map.

The master conceptual plan shows an extention of the circulation system. Many of the maturing trees are gifts in memorandum to family members, two factors that limit relocation. However the plan presents some changes to the exisitng tree layout with an aim to create space and visual interest. The plan also stimulated discussion about the reality of spatial constraints and future response to these limits.

ORCHARD ARBORETUM AT APPLEWOOD

Birdseye View in Color Pencil, Watercolor and PenHealing Garden Western State Hospital, Westfield MA

Renderings

Staircase Site Study in GraphiteAmherst College, Amherst MA

Expression in Graphite and Charcol Conceptual and Thumbnail SketchesConceptual and Thumbnail Sketches

Section-Elevation from Business Center to Riverfront ParkSpringfield MA[Hand Rendered then Processed in Photoshop]

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Perspective in Color Pencil, Watercolor and Pen of Healing Garden Pavilion EntryWestern State Hospital, Westfield MA[Render over SketchUp Model Snapshot]

Independent Studio DesignPlanting PlanDaylighting the Mill River

Technical Drawing

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The project to the right relies on the functions of Geographic Imaging System (GIS) to geocode and to join Census data tables with the State of Connecticut’s road shape layer provided by the University of Connecticut Map and Geographic Information Center (MAGIC) site.

The base map originates from the 2008-2009 County Subdivision shape file, also downloaded from the MAGIC data site. The base map divides the State of Connecticut into its town shapes. The town label field is included on the central geocode map at the top of the poster and shoreline map on the lower left. Town labels are excluded from the other maps so that the maps emphasize more the color and shape patterning over specific local identification.

A list of art installations funded by the State of Connecticut’s Percent for Public Art program provides the geocoded site locations. Delimited to publicly owned sites, the list displays an inventory of two hundred and forty-one art installations in twenty-nine of one hundred and sixty-nine towns and cities in Connecticut. Seventeen percent of the towns in Connecticut incorporate art installations. Each listing typed into an Excel spreadsheet includes the following fields: Institution, Site Location, Address, City & State, Zip code, Type of Institution, Type of Art (abbreviated), Type of Art (specific), Indoor, Outdoor, Artist’s Last Name.

GIS & Writing

The necessary steps to follow that result in a successful point layer added to the base map include defining an address locator using the 2008 CT Roads shape file and associated attributes table, executing the geocode tool and re-matching missing addresses. Eighty-five percent (206 locations) of all listings did geocode successfully after the rematch. Five percent (11 locations) tied and ten percent (24 locations) did not match. Using Google Maps and search engine led to the successful retrieval of all locations but for two. Errors include street name, address number and zip code.

The geocode process has a few limitations. At the state scale, many of the points overlay. Individual points are not visible unless scaled to the town boundaries. Also, certain sites have more than two art installations. Manual rematch allows for changes to the table, but the software recognizes only one point per location, even after distinguishing addresses along the road. This is particularly true for campus addresses, where multiple inputs display a single point that when zoomed in disappear. A manual comparison of the location list with the resulting point layer did ensure the inclusion of the most pertinent spatial variations.

Other problems occurred during geocoding. For the software to recognize the Excel table, the table had to be transformed into a .dbf file to avoid error messages. One field heading and one hyphen in an artist’s last name went unrecognized and needed manual correction. Despite the limitations the results adequately show the fundamental statewide patterning of Percent for Public Art installations throughout Connecticut.

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