Peter Trowbridge is a professor and chair in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. Over the past decade he has developed a unique set of strategies to establish plantings in difficult urban and severely disturbed sites. The result of using these strategies

in practice has resulted in projects which demonstrate greater plant survival and subsequently greater success. Success can be measured in numerous local and national awards for greenway and park planning and design. These innovative ideas in plant establishment and design have also been used in the classroom, in a co-taught course with Nina Bassuk, Director of the Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell, creating experiential learning conditions for the next generation of the "new" professional.