John Crone Professor BLA, University of Georgia MRP, University of Pennsylvania jcrone@uark.edu 479/575-5924

Prior to joining the landscape architecture faculty in 1980, John Crone acquired extensive experience in landscape design and regional planning, working as a self-employed landscape architect and with Gerald F. Kessler and Associates in Denver, Colo., Bodfan Gruffydd in London, England and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources in Atlanta, Ga. He also taught at Lincoln College in Christchurch, New Zealand.

As the director of the landscape architecture department from 1987 - 1993, John Crone secured a $5 million bequest that became Garvan Woodland Gardens and achieved full national accreditation status for the department. Crone teaches design and construction courses throughout the landscape architecture curriculum, placing an emphasis on community planning, housing and sustainable design. His current research focuses on sustainable community design and the relationship between community planning and sustainable agriculture. Crone has presented numerous invited lectures at national and international conferences and has published more than 30 articles on a wide range of topics. He has won two departmental teaching awards and a School of Architecture Faculty Writing Award. Crone is active in the American Society of Landscape Architects and is a member of several professional honor societies.

Crone served as head of the Washington County Planning Board from 1991 - 98 and has been a member of the City of Fayetteville's Tree and Landscape Committee since 2004.