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Wayken Shaw

Wayken Shaw is an urban designer with expertise in landscape architecture. He joined PPS in early 2006 after 5½ years at Wheat Scharf Associates, a landscape architecture firm based in Tucson, AZ.

Wayken has been working on a number of PPS’s programs, from New Mixed Used Developments, Public Markets, Downtowns and Campuses. His recent projects include a master plan for an expansion of the Harvard University campus into Allston, Massachusetts, a village green and town center for a new mixed use community in Lincoln, Nebraska, a new park and town center in Oviedo, Florida, a revitalization plan for downtown Elmira, New York, and a start-up Mercado in Tucson, AZ. His roles range from design and graphic communications to workshop facilitation.

At Wheat Scharf, Wayken was a designer and project manager for numerous urban design projects. He has worked on master plans for the downtown Tucson streets Scott Avenue, Toole Avenue and Congress Street, as well as a master plan for the University of Arizona campus. It was on the Congress Street Master Plan that Wheat Scharf teamed with PPS to develop a community-based vision of place for downtown’s historically “Main Street” in 2004-2005.

Wayken’s design work in Tucson includes a series of plazas relating to the construction of a new gateway underpass into Tucson’s downtown and the reuse of an adjacent historic underpass as a pedestrian corridor, design of a courtyard plaza for two new biotech laboratory facilities on the University of Arizona campus, an entry courtyard for a new library in midtown Tucson, and two rest areas for State Route 188, Roosevelt Lake and the Tonto National Monument Cliff Dwellings in Globe, Arizona. Wayken is a native of Los Angeles.

Education

University of Arizona, Master of Landscape Architecture, 2002.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Bachelor of Science in Environmental Design, 1998.

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