James A. LaGro

James LaGro, Jr. is an urban designer and landscape architect with over 30 years of combined experience in higher education, private practice, and public service. A Cornell University graduate, he teaches in both the urban planning and landscape architecture programs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On sabbatical leave, from 2008 to 2009, he spent a year in Washington D.C. as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow with the U.S. EPA’s Global Change Research Program. His scholarship is informed by interdisciplinary research, international travel, and community-engaged teaching that examines the complex relationships between urban form and function.