Ronald Lee Fleming


Ronald Lee Fleming, F.A.I.C.P., is the founder and president of The Townscape Institute, a not-for-profit public interest planning organization founded in the United States in 1979. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
He attended Pomona College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 2006, he received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in Washington, D.C.. He also won several awards for his 1998 Radnor Gateways Enhancement Strategy in Radnor, Pennsylvania.
He has written several books on the urban landscape covering preservation, corporate visual responsibility and placemaking, most recently The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 335 libraries He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s.
He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island, at Bellevue House. Additionally, he is one of the Directors and Officers of Fathers & Families, a fathers' rights organization.

Publications

Fleming, Ronald Lee. Facade Stories: Changing Faces of Main Street : Storefronts and How to Care for Them. Cambridge, MA: Townscape Institute, 1982.