Ronald Lee Fleming, F.A.I.C.P., is the founder and president of The Townscape Institute, a not-for-profit public interest planning organization founded in the United States in 1979.
In 2006, he received the William H. Whyte Lifetime Achievement Award from Partners for Livable Communities in Washington, D.C.
[2] He has written several books on the urban landscape covering preservation, corporate visual responsibility and placemaking, most recently The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design.
[3] According to WorldCat, the book is held in 335 libraries [4] He was instrumental in the early Main Street Revitalization movement of the 1970s.
[5] He resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Newport, Rhode Island, at Bellevue House.