Bob Scarfo, Founder of Land and Life, LLC

Bob Scarfo established Land and Life, LLC, as a diversified land planning consulting company that works with local interest groups in highly participatory problem-solving environments. Together, he and his participants deliver planning and design solutions that anticipate a changing future. Bob has organized and led workshops, focus groups, and collaborative work teams in the innovative, future-looking design of neighborhoods, urban and suburban districts, and rural communities. Bob’s “fence hopping,” experiences, as he calls them, provide him with an ability to integrate abstract environmental and social systems with people’s on the street, in the community, personal needs.

Bob Scarfo is a registered landscape architect in Washington and Massachusetts. He specializes in building diverse teams that join professionals, municipal leaders and staff, and students and retirees in the exploration and development of place- and evidence-based community solutions. Bob holds professional degrees in landscape architecture and a PhD in Social Geography. He is also a Certified Aging in Place Specialist.