Natural Environment
Settlement, Village, Town
Agriculture & Food Production
Open Space, Recreation, and Education
Urban Neighborhoods

Professional Experience

  • Registered Landscape Architect in Washington State (# 645) and Massachusetts (# 761)
  • 2018 – present Aging and Long-term Care of Eastern Washington, Program Management Committee
  • 2021 – present Governor’s Appointment, Washington Governor’s Council on Aging
  • 2021 – present Member, Spokane’s Dementia Friendly Communities Action Team
  • 2022 – present Mayoral Appointment, City of Spokane Design Review Board
  • 2017 – present Member, Building Ohana Design Team (see: https://buildingohana.org/ )
  • 2010 – present On Track Academy Advisory Board (2010-present)
  • 2017 – present Spokane Public Schools – Limited Defined Employee (2018-present)
  • 1994 – present Founded Land and Life® LLC, Spokane, WA
  • 2016 – 2017 Comstock Park Master Plan; a Public Participation Process
  • 2015 – 2016 Coeur d’Alene Park Master Plan; a Public Participation Process
  • 1999 – 2001 Co-designed, with Ken Spiering, the 2-acre Healing & Meditative Garden, Providence Center for Faith and Healing, Sacred Heart Hospital, Spokane, Washington

 Publications – Books

  • Scarfo, B. 2022. Landscape Architecture as Storytelling: Learning Design through Analogy. New York: Routledge – Taylor & Francis.
  • Abbott, P., Carman, N., Carman, J. and Scarfo, B. (Eds). 2009. Re-creating Neighborhoods for Successful Aging. Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press.

Publications – Refereed Journals

  • Scarfo, B. 2011. “Building a More Sustainable Future for Senior Living.” Educational Gerontology, 37:6, 466-487.
  • Scarfo, B. 2002: “The Analogy: learning design based on how you learned to read and write.” Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Proceedings Annual Conference 2001. California Polytechnic State University; San Louis Obispo, CA, 65-86.
  • Scarfo, B. 1992: “Ethics in Practice: what we say and what we do,” Landscape Architecture Review, 13,3/4, 6 8.
  • Scarfo, B. 1992: Cultivating Agriculture: the future of rural communities in a progrowth environment. Proceedings of the Innovative Rural Communities Conference, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Department of Geography, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick.
  • Scarfo, Bob 1989: Consensus: the aim of teaching and learning. Proceedings, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, 59 64.