Chuck Flink, FASLA is founder and owner of Greenways Incorporated, and is recognized as a leading national authority for the planning, design and implementation of greenway and trail systems and facilities. He has worked on greenway projects in 200 communities and 35 states. He has also worked on greenway projects in Argentina, Canada, Japan and the Island of St. Croix. Chuck has shared his extensive knowledge on greenway design development as a featured and keynote speaker at more than 150 national and international conferences.
Chuck is co-author of Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design and Development, a nationally acclaimed "how-to" book on greenway creation, published by Island Press in 1993. The publication received a 1994 Merit Award in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is also co-author of Trails for the Twenty-First Century, an award winning book that was authored in association with the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Washington, DC. Both the Greenways and Trails books have been published in Chinese and are used as textbooks at Peking University in Beijing. He is contributing author for Landscape Architectural Graphic Standards, American Society of Landscape Architects, and Planning and Urban Design Standards, American Planning Association. Chuck has been involved in planning and design for more than 2,000 miles of multi-use greenway corridors throughout the United States.
Chuck is a Felllow in the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is a member of the North Carolina State Unviersity Board of Visitors, which is advisory to the Chancellor and Board of Trustees. He is a member of Leaders Council at the NCSU College of Design and is the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Design.
Education: Bachelor of Environmental Design in Landscape Architecture, North Carolina State University, Cum Laude
Professional Registrations: Registered Landscape Architect North Carolina #528, South Carolina #515, Virginia #414
Professional Affiliations: American Society of Landscape Architects, Urban Land Institute, Adjunct Professor of Landscape Architecture, NC State University, Gubernatorial Appointee, North Carolina Greenway Advisory Panel, 3-term Chairman of the Board, American Trails (1988-1991), Director, North Carolina Rail-Trails Incorporated (1990-1992), Director, North Carolina Trails Association (1988-1992), Director, Board of Trustees, East Coast Greenway Alliance (1999-present) (Board Chair, 2004-2010)
