The 2015 New England Landscape Design & History Association’s Fall Reception features a lecture by landscape architect Thomas Paine on November 12, 2015, at Massachusetts Horticultural Society. His  book Cities with Heart (bilingual in English and Chinese, 2015) explores leading examples of urban open space across the globe. The reception begins at 5:30 and features wine, beer, tea, and coffee, accompanied by small bites and is followed by the lecture. Members $10/Nonmembers $20. Registration Deadline is November 6, 2015.

Tom Paine heads the Boston office of AGER, a Shanghai-based multidisciplinary landscape architectural and urban planning firm that focuses on large urban projects in China. He has worked on commercial, residential, and institutional projects including campuses, retirement communities, historic sites and parks in the U.S., England, and Asia. He led the site design of the first Gold LEED-certified public project in Massachusetts.

Tom is currently placing a book for general audiences called The Greenspace Imperative. He is the principal author of Historic Parkway Preservation Treatment Guidelines (Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, 2006) and Guidelines for Greens, and, with Ronald Lee Fleming and Laurie Halderman, On Common Ground, Caring for Shared Land from Town Common to Urban Park (Harvard, Massachusetts: Harvard Common Press, 1, 1982).

For more information contact Janis Porter at JPorter5@comcast.net.