Melissa McCann, ASLA

Senior Urban Designer

Melissa McCan, ASLA, is a Senior Urban Designer within LS3P’s Urban Environments Practice. As a senior urban designer with more than 30 years of professional landscape architecture and planning practice, Melissa possesses a broad range of expertise in all phases of design and management with a strong commitment to the creation of sustainable landscape and green urbanism. Involved in a variety of public realm and private projects nationally and internationally, she is well versed in the creation of healthy cities, robust ecologies, and enduring public open space integrating progressive design principles from master planning through implementation.

Her professional practice includes working across a broad range of project scales – from the urban fabric of cities to campuses, urban brownfields, public parks and cultural landscapes. Her involvement has included extensive practice leading public agencies, private clients and integrated multi-disciplinary design teams of planners, architects, engineers, scientists, various consultants, stakeholders, developers and federal | state and local jurisdictions in a effective collaborative manner. Her thorough knowledge spanning planning to technical implementation has resulted in complex, award-winning public space projects comprised of design teams averaging eight to 40 people and combined project values from $500,000 to $285M.