Scott G. Slaney
- Class Year
- 1976
- Award Year
- 2006
- Degree
- LAND
- Profession
- Landscape Architecture
- Biography
- Scott Slaney '76 (BLA) is design and managing principal in the Shanghai office of SWA Group, a planning, landscape architecture and urban design firm. He has received approximately 30 professional awards, including: the Texas ASLA Award of Excellence for "Cy-Fair College" in Houston; the ASLA Award of Excellence for "Heart of the Park" at Hermann Park in Houston; the ULI Global Award of Excellence for "Hangzhou HuBin Redevelopment" in Hangzhou, China; and the Texas ASLA Honor Award for "Uptown Houston Streetscape Program" in Houston. Slaney has dedicated his personal energy to neighborhood revitalization through pro-bono design of Houston school-parks including: the Old Sixth Ward Park; a park for the arts, built for the Multi-Ethnic-Cultural-Arts group; and Travis Elementary School's SPARK Park. He also donated his services to design, document, bid and oversee $400,000 in improvements to create Travis Park, a park cited in 2002 by the Project for Public Spaces as one of the country's best public open spaces.
