Charles "Chuck" Flink interview, August 29, 2016

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:

Landscape Architecture
People

Subjects:

College teachers
Greenways
Landscape architects

Original Format:

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:

2016-08-29

Genre:

Interviews
Oral histories (Document genres)

Names:

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:

North Carolina

Digital Project:

Special Collections Research Center Oral Histories