Tom Fisher and Tom Leader continue their conversation about the role of landscape and urban design in shaping our cities. In this second installment of RiverFirst Insights, Fisher and Leader discuss various topics including how landscape design can be a strategic response to a city’s problems and how technology and social media connect a new generation to design projects and the natural world around them.

Tom Leader is the lead landscape designer of the RiverFirst design team TLS/KVA; Tom Fisher is a member of the RiverFirst Steering Committee and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. To learn more about them and their work, visit tomleader.com and design.umn.edu. To hear Clip1 of this conversation, visit vimeo.com/riverfirst/r1insightsdesignclip1.

RiverFirst Insights: A conversation between Tom Leader and Tom Fisher (Clip 2) from RiverFirst on Vimeo.