Charles "Chuck" Flink interview, August 29, 2016
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Item information
- Title:
- Charles "Chuck" Flink interview, August 29, 2016
- Description:
- Flink discusses: his childhood and growing up in Creve Coeur, Missouri; his education at North Carolina State University’s College of Design; the mentorship of Randy Hester and Bill Flournoy; working for Lewis Clarke; his work on the Raleigh Greenway Master Plan; his firm Greenways, Inc. and its later merger with Alta Planning + Design; the definition of greenways as multi-objective corridors; international greenways; motivating factors of environmental protection, agro and eco- tourism; his work on equitable access to nature at the Wolf River Greenway and Shelby Safe Walk (Memphis, TN); his writing career; the East Coast Greenway Project and the East Coast Greenway Alliance; goals for the future of the interstate trail system; work in Charleston County, SC; the Grand Canyon Greenway; barrier-free design; Belarus and planning greenways in a post-Communist country; the rising interest in greenways in China; and his teaching career and future teaching projects at North Carolina State University’s College of Design.
- Topics:
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Landscape Architecture
People
- Subjects:
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College teachers
Greenways
Landscape architects
- Original Format:
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Digital video recording, sound, color
- Extent:
- 02:53:02
- Item identifier:
- mc00606-oh-flink-20160829
- Interviewee:
- Flink, Charles A. more info on Flink, Charles A.
- Interviewer:
- Thayer, Gwynn more info on Thayer, Gwynn
- Created Date:
- Genre:
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Interviews
Oral histories (Document genres)
- Names:
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Flink, Charles A.
more info on Flink, Charles A.
North Carolina State University. College of Design more info on North Carolina State University. College of Design
- Location:
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North Carolina
- Digital Project:
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Special Collections Research Center Oral Histories
Source information
- Repository:
- Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
- Collection:
- Charles A. Flink Oral History (MC00606) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
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