profile: Karen landman

Associate Professor

ODH, Horticulture, University of Guelph

BLA, Landscape Architecture, University of Guelph

MSc, Rural Planning & Development, University of Guelph

PhD, Geography, Queen's University at Kingston

OALA, OPPI, CAG

Telephone: 519.824.4120 ext. 53748

Fax: 519.767.1686

Email: klandman@uoguelph.ca

Office : 105, Landscape Architecture

Karen has a background in landscape architecture, rural planning and development, and cultural geography.  She has had a design practice for over 20 years, specializing in planting design, and has worked as a County planner.  Since 2002, she has been a full-time faculty member at the University of Guelph.  In 2007, Karen was the recipient of the OAC Distinguished Professor Award.

Current research interests include green infrastructure, urban agriculture, local food systems, urban to rural linkages, and community landscape-stewardship planning.  Karen is also Research Coordinator for The Arboretum at the University of Guelph.

A registered professional planner (MCIP, OPPI), Karen is interested in the linkages between design and planning; she is currently developing a chapter on how we value rural landscapes for a new book on rural planning and development in Canada (publishers Thomson/Nelson), due in 2009.

Teaching includes design, planting design, environmental planning, and plants in the landscape.  Karen enjoys advising graduate students; recent student research has included urban forest planning, ecological stewardship of the Lake Huron dunes, ecological sustainability for rural towns, eco-revelatory design, urban agriculture and permaculture planning, and green infrastructure planning for intensification.  Karen also participates in thesis committee work with planning and capacity development students; she currently advises two Rural Studies PhD students, who are researching local food systems and human relationships with nature.