Ronald Lee Fleming

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Ronald Lee Fleming, A.I.C.P., is the founder and president of The Townscape Institute, a not-for-profit public interest planning organization founded in 1979. The organization aims to support place meaning through conservation and visual enhancement of the built environments, including research publications, public art projects, urban design, and consulting. In 2006, Fleming received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in Washington DC. He also won several awards for his 1998 Radnor Gateways Enhancement Strategy in Radnor, PA.

He has written several books on the urban landscape covering preservation, corporate visual responsibility and placemaking, most recently The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design.[1] He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s.[2] Fleming attended Pomona College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

He resides in Cambridge, MA and Newport, RI.