The first time he set eyes on Washington Plaza—the centerpiece of the new town called Reston, Virginia— Robert Good was awestruck. Traveling on a field trip with a group of other Cornell undergraduates, Good had come to visit what, in the late 1960s, was being heralded as the vanguard of American suburban design. "I remember being so impressed with it," Good recalls thirty years later. "I thought, 'This is great. This is what I'd like to do.' And even though it wasn't landscape architecture per se, the nature of it impressed me so that it sealed my fate in terms of becoming a landscape architect."
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