John James has, since 1986, provided professional planning and design services to more than 600 public and private clients in Virginia and the District of Columbia.
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His projects have ranged in size and complexity from small residential landscapes to college campus planning; from historic site preservation to town planning; from re-inventing small garden spaces to large estate master plans.
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John’s guiding principles are:
  • creative response to environmental, economic and regulatory constraints
  • assistance in maintaining and improving the viability of communities, including small towns, neighborhoods and special districts
  • respect for site conditions, both natural and cultural
  • support and encouragement of resource conservation
  • treatment of the design of the site and its architecture as integral
  • design that will endure in function and beauty