The American Society of Landscape Architects, San Diego Chapter, announces a new president for 2021, Christopher Stebbins with KTUA Planning and Landscape Architecture, San Diego.
Stebbins is a specialist in urban design, environmental planning, and landscape design as well as a veteran geographer. He is passionate about the advocacy, establishment, planning, and optimal design of urban public spaces such as plazas and promenades.
Said Stebbins, “Throughout my relatively fresh practice as a landscape architect focused on urban design, I naturally seek out opportunities from challenging circumstances. As incoming 2021 President for the San Diego chapter of ASLA, this occasion is no different.”
Stebbins’ academic and professional interest is to establish urban public spaces that enhance the social, civic, and economic needs of a community. His research includes a methodology for evaluating the social effectiveness of existing urban plazas as well as creating socially vibrant new ones. His research has been accessed over a hundred times by academics and practitioners worldwide and has provided presentations on this work internationally.
Stebbins has dual masters degrees in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning and Design from the University of Georgia and a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara.
Throughout his life, he has identified himself as someone who puts the interests of the public and the natural world before himself. “It’s my version of making the world a better place.”
Currently living in Bankers’ Hill, Stebbins grew up in Clairemont and North County before living throughout other parts of California, the country, and the world, returning to San Diego in August of 2018.
The American Society of Landscape Architects is the national professional organization, founded in 1899, representing landscape architects in private, public, and academic practice. The local chapter was formed in 1976 to serve both the profession and the public on local issues dealing with the practice of landscape architecture.
