Dictionary Landscape Architecture and Construction

Abstract

Alan Jay Christensen, a member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Nursery & Landscape Association, the Irrigation Association, the American Institute of Certified Planners, and the International Ecological Engineering Society, has more than 27 years’ experience in landscape architecture and landscape construction. In successfully operating several businesses for 23 years in the landscape industry, he has performed and managed landscape design, construction, and maintenance. His wellrounded experience in landscape and construction from New York to Hawaii has led him to obtain licenses as Landscape Architect, Irrigation Auditor, Landscape Contractor, Residential Construction Contractor, Commercial Construction Contractor, and Demolition Contractor. The holder of a patent for a method of planting trees that targets contaminants in brownfields, he has taught land planning at Brigham Young University and conducted research at Harvard University. He has special interest in debunking fallacies and misconceptions common in landscape architecture and is the author of several arti