IMS landscape consultancy
Ian
Simkins BSc, Dip LA, PCHE, PhD, FHEA, MI Hort, CMLI
Chartered Landscape Architect
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IMS
Landscape Consultancy is a Chartered Landscape Architect and Garden
Design Practice based near York in North Yorkshire. IMS Landscape
Consultancy specialise in the creation of meaningful outdoor places where
experience is considered as important as aesthetics and function. Ian Simkins is also co-founder of elp:rdu ( The Experiential Landscape Place Research and Development Unit - www.elprdu.com) with colleague Dr. Kevin Thwaites of the University of Sheffield. In
2007 Ian and Kevin published their research: In addition to the experiential landscape research, Ian and Kevin are also active members of UStED (Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design) an International network of urban design theorists and practitioners formed to research, co-ordinate and disseminate tools of sustainable urban design, with special emphasis on urban public space and its value to sustaining fulfilled lives (www.usted-urbandesign.org) The
UStED
book: Urban
Sustainability Through Environmental Design: Approaches to Time, People
and Place Responsive Urban Spaces, is
available from Taylor and Francis, a synopsis can be viewed by clicking
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