Rouge River Gateway Master Plan Wins
2002 Honor Award from the Michigan Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects

The Michigan Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects has selected Wayne County’s Rouge River Gateway Master Plan for an Honor Award in the category of Landscape Planning and Analysis. Hamilton Anderson Associates was recognized as the Project Landscape Architect of Record with support from Environmental Consulting & Technology, Camp Dresser & McKee and the Rouge Gateway Partnership.

The MASLA Award Program
The MASLA Award competition recognizes and promotes quality landscape architectural design. Awards can be garnered in any of three categories ---

Landscape Architectural Design
Landscape Planning and Analysis
Landscape Architectural Research and Communication

The following is MASLA’s description of the awarded project category:

Landscape Planning and Analysis

This category includes “the wide variety of professional activity that leads, guides or evaluates landscape architectural design.” Activities included in this category are general development, regional transportation, recreation master plans, government policies and programs, legislation and/or regulation ensuring utilization of landscape architecture, environmental assessments, suitability studies, visual resource inventories and post construction evaluations.

Criteria

• Representation of excellence or leading edge in landscape architectural practice
• Exhibition of new technology, a pioneering use of previously created methodology, and a uniquely effective means of combining, presenting and programming landscape architectural techniques
• Representation ensuring that landscape architecture has a significant opportunity to impact the environment or environmental decision-making
• Landscape architectural research and communication

The Michigan Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects
Founded in 1899, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) currently represents more than 12,000 members and has 47 chapters across the country with headquarters in Washington, DC. Private, public, and academic practitioners have a professional home at ASLA as do international practitioners and members of related professions. MASLA represents the landscape architecture profession in Michigan.

Landscape architecture is the art and science of analysis, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land. The scope of the profession includes site planning, garden design, environmental restoration, town or urban planning, park and recreation planning, regional planning, and historic preservation. Practitioners share a commitment to achieving a balance between the preservation, use and management of the country's resources. The organization’s purpose is "the advancement of education and skill in the art of Landscape Architecture and the promotion of the profession of Landscape Architecture as an instrument of service in the public welfare." (from Article II, Section 1 of the Michigan Chapter Constitution).

The Rouge River Gateway Master Plan
The project is described in detail in various sections of this Web site.

Please address all comments and suggestions about the contents of this Web page to rougeweb@co.wayne.mi.us.

The Rouge River National Wet Weather Demonstration Project is funded, in part, by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Grants #XP995743-01, -02, -03, -04, -05, -06, -08 and C-264000-01.