Chuck Flink, FASLA is the Howard C. and Margaret G. Bissell Director of the Pappas Real

Estate Development Program at NC State University. Flink is an award-winning author, planner

and landscape architect who has completed work in 250 communities, 35 states, and in Europe,

Asia, and South America. He is the recipient of four dozen national, regional and local planning

and design awards. In 2023 he was awarded the American Society of Landscape Architect’s

Alfred B. LaGasse Medal in recognition of his 40-year career devoted to the management and

conservancy of natural resources and public landscapes. Flink is a Fellow in the American

Society of Landscape Architects, he is the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of the NC State

University College of Design, and a 2019 recipient of the NC State University Watauga Medal,

the University’s highest non-academic award. Chuck is the author of three books with his most

recent “The Greenway Imperative: Connecting Communities and Landscapes for A Sustainable

Future.