Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning

Landscape Architecture

Landscape architecture is the profession providing landscape planning, design and management services to enhance and protect natural and built environments. Landscape architecture as a discipline is devoted to understanding and managing the human and environmental forces that change the landscape. Landscape architects plan and design places for the health, safety and welfare of citizens through systematic decision-making that integrates science, art and technology. Individual and community quality of life are enhanced by a design process to improve, protect and create ecologically sustainable, socially equitable and economically feasible landscapes. Landscape architects work in urban, suburban and wilderness environments. Our graduates have gained distinction for projects as varied in scale as private gardens, residential communities, urban plazas, college campuses, park facilities and regional conservation plans.

The Bachelor in Landscape Architecture (BLA) program is nationally accredited as a professional degree program. The mission of the program is to prepare students to become professional landscape architects in private and public sector practice. Our educational goal is to produce graduates motivated to be leaders in the field and professionals who are intellectually active, broadly educated citizens and lifelong learners.

Urban and Regional Planning

The Bachelor of Science in Urban and Regional Planning degree program emphasizes the social, economic, cultural and natural factors that govern how communities and society are shaped. Coursework provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to develop solutions to community and regional growth and development issues that face our state and nation. Students have an opportunity to specialize in specific aspects of community and regional planning and development issues along with internship and service-learning experiences locally, nationally and/or internationally.

Brown, Robert D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Guelph, 1985
MLA, University of Guelph, 1982

Caldwell, Peter, Associate Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Purdue University, 2013

Cooper, John T, Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Davis, Deidra D, Instructional Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2017

Dixit, Madhavi Manish M, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2021
MLA, School of Planning & Architecture New Delhi, India, 1997

Dvorak, Bruce D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MLA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994

Early, Tim, Associate Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Texas A&M University, 1991

Fu, Xinyu, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Florida, 2018

Garcia, Ivis, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2015

Golbabai, Justin, Associate Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MPA, University of Kansas, 2006

Hu, Lingqian 'Ivy', Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Southern California, 2010

Huang, Chang S, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 1995

Keller, Duke, Visiting Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
JD, South Texas College of Law, 1998

Lee, Chanam, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Washington, 2004

Lee, Sungmin, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2018
MLA, Seoul National University, 2009

Leverett, Dan, Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MBA, Texas A&M University, 1988

Li, Dongying, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Illinois - Champaign, 2016

Li, Meiqing, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California at Berkeley, 2024

Li, Shengxiao, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 2022

Li, Wei, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California at Irvine, 2011

Malecha, Matthew L, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019
MURP, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2012

Martin, June C, Instructional Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, University of Georgia, 2002
MPA, University of Georgia, 1991

McNair, Michael, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Kansas State University, 2023
MCRP, Clemson University, 2018

Meyer, Michelle Annette, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Colorado State University, 2013

Nam, Ji Won, Instructional Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2023
MLA, Seoul National University, 2009

Newman, Galen D, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Clemson University, 2010
MLA, Auburn University, 2006
MCP, Auburn University, 2006

Newton, Karah F, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
BA, University of Buffalo - The State University of New York, 2000
MPA, New York University Wagner, 2014

Noh, Youngre, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2015

Peacock, Walter Gillis, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Georgia, 1986

Peng, Jingxi, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MLA, Texas A&M University, 2022

Reid, Russell W, Instructional Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MAR, Texas A&M University, 2001
BED, Texas A&M University, 1995

Ren, Dingding, Senior Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2025
MLA, Texas A&M University, 2018

Rosenheim, Nathanael Proctor, Research Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2015
MUP, Texas A&M University, 2009

Sanchez, Thomas, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996

Schmahmann, Laura, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California at Berkeley, 2025

Scott, Bentley Nelson, Associate Professor Of The Practice
Land Arch & Urban Planning
MS, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
MS, Texas A&M University, 2005

Song, Yang, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Clemson University, 2017
MLA, Clemson University, 2013

Van Zandt, Shannon S, Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Varni, James Walter, Research Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976

Wu, Chia-Ching, Lecturer
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2024
MS, National Taiwan University, 2017

Wunneburger, Douglas F, Instructional Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1992

Xu, Boqian, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, University of Pennsylvania, 2023
MLA, University of Pennsylvania, 2016

Yu, Siyu, Associate Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2019

Zhong, Sinan, Assistant Professor
Land Arch & Urban Planning
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2020
MLA, Texas A&M University, 2014