Olmsted Legacy continues the design tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., to make lands available to everyone, no matter their place in the world or station in life.

 

As founder and principal of Olmsted Legacy, Nancy Olmsted Spanovich uses sustainable design principles to integrate biological and physical sciences and engineering into open space and facilities.Client and teaming partner at Green Urban Design says " Nancy considers what makes a good place at the intersection of cultural and natural resource flows with good data and science." 

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A biologist and natural resource planner working across nine states and the Pacific Rim, Nancy believes in putting energy back into the earth to lift people up. As a certified Reconomics revitalization & resilience (RRFac) facilitator, Nancy believes in repurposing, renewing, and reconnecting our natural, built, and socioeconomic assets for the benefit of all. As the world’s first macro-credential, RRFac is a strategy for restoring ecology, equity, and economics and understanding how the natural and social pieces of a project fit together and advance toward a common goal. Nancy has a passion for implementing community benefit livability aspects of infrastructure projects to consider context, social cohesion, and public health and wealth of urban environments.  

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With 30+ years of experience leading environmental analysis and mitigation planning efforts for natural systems in nine states and overseas, Nancy integrates design features to improve livability and social equity while protecting the environment. As executive director of a non-profit agency, Educating for Peace, she applies a wholistic decision-making approach to involve all stakeholders and work through conflict and differing opinions.