As a practitioner and educator, M. Paul Friedberg awakened his profession to urban landscape design with the construction of Riis Park Plaza in New York City in 1965.

M. Paul Friedberg has been a creative force in the field of landscape architecture for more than 50 years as a practitioner, author, mentor, and educator. A founder of the Urban Landscape Architecture Program at the City College of New York, he helped shape the profession as a leading designer of socially responsibler, public spaces.

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