James L. Sipes is a landscape architect, environmental planner, and writer with more than twenty-five years of professional experience encompassing a wide range of planning, design, research, and communication projects, and over twelve years as a visiting professor at a variety of institutions, from Cornell to University of Tennessee. He has written more than 300 articles for a variety of publications (including Planning and Landscape Architecture). He is the author of two books: Digital Land (John Wiley & Sons 2007) and Sustainable Solutions to Water Resources Process, Planning, Design & Impl...