"Designing Quality Green Communities." Communities all across Florida are searching for ways to protect and enhance their unique character, provide amenities, strengthen neighborhoods, and create vital, mixed use downtowns. It takes careful planning, design and stewardship to create livable, safe, and sustainable communities that are a joy to live and work in. Ruth Hamberg Landscape Architecture and Urban Design provides professional planning consulting services that can help you bring these aspirations into reality. Professional Experience: 30+ years experience in both public and private sector Landscape Architecture and Planning services. Ruth interned with the Michigan State University office of Campus Park & Planning. After graduation with a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, she worked for City of Lansing, MI Parks Dept in the Park Design office. Next she worked as a Landscape Designer with Hammond Farms, Dimondale, MI. Next, Ruth was a Landscape Architect with Linsemier and Assoc. in Lansing, MI. After a move to Florida in 1987, Ruth served as a Planner 1, and in subsequent years as a Planner III with the City of Orlando, FL Planning & Development Dept. Urban Design Section. In 2002, Ruth was hired as a Senior Planner with Land Design Innovations, Inc., Winter Park, FL. Now Ruth is President of Ruth Hamberg Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, Orlando FL. Specialties: Urbanism. Design standards & landscape codes. Infill plans; landscape architecture. 'Main Street' consulting. Green Town Planning to create or retrofit a community to be more ‘Sustainable’; native ecosystem approach, strategic canopy tree plans, low impact development & ‘green streets’ stormwater plans. Visual analysis of a district; visioning; identity plans. Public involvement workshops, charrettes. Master Planning of a site or district.Parks, bicycle, pedestrian facility planning. Complete Streets and Streetscapes.CPTED analysis. Health Impact Assessments.