Karl Linn (1923-2005) was a landscape architect, child psychologist, and university professor. He pioneered community gardening movements across the U.S., and is beloved for his vision and leadership in the field of grassroots community building.
After practicing psychology in New York, he taught landscape architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Through the 1960s, Linn started community design centers in ten American cities while teaching at MIT, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and other universities. Forty-five years of his legacy in community design is recorded in Building Commons and Community (New Village Press, 2007).
