Ronald Lee Fleming, F.A.I.C.P., is the founder and president of The Townscape Institute, a not-for-profit public interest planning organization founded in the United States in 1979. He is a fellow of the

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. He attended

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and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2006, he received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in

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He also won several awards for his 1998 Radnor Gateways Enhancement Strategy in

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. He has written several books on the urban landscape covering preservation, corporate visual responsibility and

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, most recently ''The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design''. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 335 libraries He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s. He resides in

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and

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, at Bellevue House. Additionally, he is one of the Directors and Officers of Fathers & Families, a

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Publications

*Fleming, Ronald Lee.'' The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design.'' London: Merrell, 2007. *Fleming, Ronald Lee, Rachel Goldsmith, and J. A. Chewning.'' Saving Face: How Corporate Franchise Design Can Respect Community Identity.'' Chicago, IL: American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service, 1994. OCLC 30925448 *Fleming, Ronald Lee, and Renata von Tscharner. ''Place Makers: Creating Public Art That Tells You Where You Are : with an Essay on Planning and Policy.'' Boston: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. Fleming, Ronald Lee. ''Facade Stories: Changing Faces of Main Street : Storefronts and How to Care for Them.'' Cambridge, MA: Townscape Institute, 1982. *Fleming, Ronald Lee, Renata von Tscharner, and George Melrod.'' Place Makers: Public Art That Tells You Where You Are.'' Cambridge, MA.: Townscape Institute, 1981. OCLC 30925448 *

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External links

Homepage of The Townscape Institute

Fellows of the American Institute of Certified Planners

The Art of Placemaking Official Publisher's Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fleming, Ronald Lee American urban planners Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni Living people Fathers' rights activists Pomona College alumni