Mary Eysenbach

Full-time 2004-2005

Photo by Doug Cogger

Mary Eysenbach directs The City Parks Forum for the American Planning Association from Chicago, Illinois. In this role, she has convened the mayors of more than 25 cities to discuss the various functions parks play in their cities, and to help them plan for the further development of parks and open spaces for their cities. The forum has also published several important technical support documents that are used widely by planners and elected officials. Mary is interested in exploring further the wide range of benefits parks and open space have in cities and has begun to develop the idea of a Greenline standard by which urban areas can measure the adequacy of their green spaces and natural elements. As a Loeb Fellow, Mary plans to explore this concept further during her Loeb Fellowship and will also study landscape architecture, urban design and city policy-making processes.