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Some series contain digital media. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Pending staff review and approval, access will be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request. Access may be restricted.
The Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers document the activities of this landscape design firm. The collection is divided into four series. Drawings contain site plans, planting plans, construction details, maps, and other plans for a variety of the firm’s projects. Project Files contain contracts, financial accounts, reports, and research files relating to Greenways Incorporated or Flink and Associates project. The Professional Papers and Publications series include newspaper clippings, documents pertaining to greenway publications, and photographs. Web content includes archived web content related to Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers.
Greenways Incorporated is a North Carolina based landscape architectural firm that provides specialized planning and design services to clients in the public and private sector. Greenways Incorporated was established in August 1986, by founder and president Charles A. Flink. The firm has designed greenways, open spaces, and pedestrian trails. Projects from this firm have been implemented in more than 135 communities, in 35 states, and internationally in Argentina, Canada, Japan, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The company has received an American Society of Landscape Architecture Chapter Award for Excellence for five separate projects in five different states.
Greenways Incorporated is a North Carolina based landscape architectural firm that provides specialized planning and design services to clients in the public and private sector. Greenways Incorporated was established in August 1986, by founder and president Charles "Chuck" A. Flink. The firm has designed greenways, open spaces, and pedestrian trails. Projects from this firm have been implemented in more than 135 communities, in 35 states, and internationally in Argentina, Canada, Japan, and the U. S. Virgin Islands. The company has received an American Society of Landscape Architecture Chapter Award for Excellence for five separate projects in five different states.
In 1989, the firm co-authored the state’s first local government open space plan in Durham County. In 1991, the firm prepared a master plan for North Carolina’s first rails-to-trails project, the American Tobacco Trail in Durham, Chatham, and Wake Counties. In 1992, under the newly adopted Intermodal Surface Transportation Act, Greenways Incorporated authored North Carolina’s first Regional Bicycle Plan for the Durham, Carborro, and Chapel Hill metropolitan area. In 1999, the company produced the first greenway master plan that made use of GIS technology for Charlotte-Mecklenburg County.
Flink, the President of Greenways Incorporated, is one of America's leading greenway planners, having completed comprehensive greenway, trail and open space plans for more than 250 communities within 36 States. He has also been a consultant to clients in Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Japan and St. Croix, USVI. Flink is a Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows, and is the 2006 Distinguished Alumnus of the College of Design at North Carolina State University.
Flink coauthored "Greenways. A Guide to Planning, Design and Development," which received a 1994 Merit Award in Communications from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and is cited by the American Planning Association as “the best single reference” on greenway development. Flink also coauthored "Trails for the Twenty First Century." Both books have been translated into Chinese and are used as textbooks at Peking University in Beijing and Shenzhen.
Flink has been featured in prominent national and international publications including National Geographic, LA China, Landscape Architecture China, Business Journal, Private Clubs, Landscape Architecture, Walking, American Planning, Good Housekeeping, Southern Living and American City County. In 1995, he received an Environmental Excellence Award from the US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration for the Swift Creek Recycled Greenway, the nation's first greenway built from recycled trash. In 2001, he received a Merit Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for his work on the Grand Canyon Greenway project.
Flink has lectured on the creation of greenways at more than 200 national and international conferences. He graduated Cum Laude in 1982 from North Carolina State University's College of Design and currently serves as Executive in Residence. He also currently serves on the NC State College of Design Leaders Council and Chairs the NC State University Board of Visitors (advisory to the Chancellor). He served three consecutive terms as Chairman of the Board for American Trails, Washington, DC. He served five terms as Chair of the Board of Trustees for the East Coast Greenway Alliance, a 3,000 mile urban trail that extends from Calis, Maine to Key West, Florida along the Atlantic Seaboard of the United States. He currently serves on the American Trails National Advisory Board and is Chair of the East Coast Greenway National Advisory Board.
The Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers document the activities of this landscape design firm. The collection is divided into four series. Drawings contain site plans, planting plans, construction details, maps, and other plans for a variety of the firm’s projects. Project Files contain contracts, financial accounts, reports, and research files relating to Greenway Incorporated or Flink and Associates project. The Professional Papers and Publications series include newspaper clippings, documents pertaining to greenway publications, and photographs. Web content includes archived web content related to Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers.
This collection is arranged into four series:
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[Identification of item], Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers, MC 00405, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Gift of Greenways Incorporated, 2011, 2014 (Accession nos. 2011.0057, 2011.0102, 2011.0132, 2014.0258). Web content harvested using the Internet Archive's Archive-It services, starting in 2016.
Processed by Judy Allen Dodson and Aaron Cusick; machine-readable finding aid created by Judy Allen Dodson and Aaron Cusick, August 2011. Revised by Gwynn Thayer, January 2016. Processed by Rachel Jacobson, March 2016. Archived web content processed by Liz Bell, 2020 January.
This collection was processed with support from the Council on Library and Information Resources Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives program.
The collection is organized into four principal series:
Drawings contain site plans, planting plans, construction details, maps, specifications and other plans for a variety of the firm’s projects.
This series is arranged alphabetically and then chronologically. All tubes are listed first, flatfolders are listed second.
Reproductions
Locator map: Norfolk-Southern Rail Corridor
Section analyses
Access to physical material and digital files not available online may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room after staff review.
Some materials may not have been digitized or made available online.
Reproductions
Reproductions
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Site plan
Construction details
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Title page, trail layouts, vertical alignments, cross sections
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Cross sections, details, bridge details
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Construction documents
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Segment 2 plans, segment 3 plans
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Profiles and cross sections, details, layout grading and drainage plan
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Cover sheet, trail layout, trail profile, trail layout/details, trail head, landscape plan/details, trail construction details
Trail layouts, trail construction details, landscape plan
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Fallon Creek trail bridge details, typical concrete bridge footing, Lassiter Mill trail overlook/interpretive center
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Construction drawings
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Construction drawings
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Cover sheet, trail head/parking plans, site plan, dual route connectors, construction details
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Cover sheet, pathway layouts, vertical curves
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Vertical curves, details, sections
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Cross sections
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Segment 2 trail coordiante map, plan and profiles, cross sections
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Master landscape plan
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Reproductions
Lighting plan, details, layout plan, planting plan
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Crossing maps, site plan, interpretive markers/signage, views, details
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Cover sheet, master site plans, plan profiles, details of 8th Avenue crossing, detail sheet
Reproductions
Cover sheets, master concept site plans, detail sheet
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Cover sheet
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Development concepts, site analysis, hydrologic and wetland inventory, soils and topography, ecosystems
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Planting plan
Existing conditions map, land use map, preliminary master plan, trail facility details
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Master plan
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Cover sheet, trail layouts, bikeway profiles, trail cross sections, landscape planting plans, utilities, erosion control, and signage plans, stream cross sections, streeam and wetlands migations details
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Landscape planting places, trail construction details, erosion control details, trail safety and access control details, tax map, landscape plans, special use permits, details
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Stairway details, sections, stream channelization plan view, stream channelization, and stairway details, construction sequence, graphs
Reproductions
Reproductions
Reproductions
Cover sheet, plans, details
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Planting plan, details, lighting plan, irrigation plan, dimensioning plan
Reproductions
Schedule of drawings, begin Alexander Drive project, Tucasi campus project, Glaxo intersection, NC 147 bridge crossing, end Alexander Drive project, Begin Davis Drive project, end Davis Drive project, construction drawings
Cover sheet, title page, stations, vertical sections, construction details
Title page, stations, vertical sections, construction details
Title page, stations, vertical sections, construction details
Reproductions
Reproductions
Reproductions
Master plan, planting plan, grading and utility plan, details
Reproductions
Reproductions
Reproductions
Site plan
Greenway design concepts
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Reproductions
Reproductions
Schematic study, site analysis and inventory
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Reproductions
Maps and details
Project files contain contracts, financial documents, site reports, and research relating to greenways, and other landscape architecture projects. clippings, and photographs for completed and proposed projects.
This series is arranged alphabetically.
The Professional Papers and Publications series includes newspaper clippings, documents pertaining to greenway publications, books and articles. The series also contains photographs, correspondence, and documents about greenway or other landscape architecture conferences.
This series is organized chronologically, and then alphabetically. Undated documents are placed at the end of the series in alphabetical order.
Included are 2 MP4 files, 2 PDF files, and 6 additional Microsoft Office, audio, and other files.
Files are arranged as received.
Pending staff review and approval, access to digital copies will be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request. Access may be restricted.
Files retrieved from Google Drive.
File count of digital media may exclude system files; hidden, deleted, or excluded files; and duplicate files.
This series is comprised of web sites related to the Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers, captured by the NC State University Libraries since April 2016 using the Internet Archive’s Archive-It web archiving service, with prior captures by the Internet Archive dating to December 1996, which may be less complete and were performed at undetermined intervals.
This is an Alta Planning + Design website. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured monthly since July 2016. Also included here are prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to March 2016, which may be less complete and were performed at undetermined intervals.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is an Alta Planning + Design website. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured monthly from June 27, 2017 to January 24, 2018. Also included here is a prior capture by the Internet Archive on June 21 2017, which may be less complete.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is the official alta Transportation and Consulting website. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured monthly since April 2016. Also included here are prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to December 2000, which may be less complete and were performed at undetermined intervals.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is the official website of Greenways Inc. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured monthly since April 2016. Also included here are prior captures by the Internet Archive dating back to December 1996, which may be less complete and were performed at undetermined intervals.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
This is the official website of Metro Trail. The NC State University Libraries has scheduled this website to be captured Monthly since April 2016.
Online access is provided through the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. We perform virus scans upon ingest and upon request for access. However, not all virus software profiles will catch all threats, especially newer, not yet recognized ones. The researcher assumes all risk when opening files.
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Some series contain digital media. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access will require additional advanced notice. Pending staff review and approval, access will be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request. Access may be restricted.
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[Identification of item], Greenways Incorporated Records and Charles A. Flink Papers, MC 00405, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
The NC State University Libraries generally claims only physical ownership of most Special Collections materials. These materials are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. Libraries staff are unable to advise on copyright and other legal matters; the user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Helpful resources for assessing copyright include Cornell Libraries' "Copyright Services: Copyright Term and the Public Domain" and copyright.gov. This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information about identifiable living individuals, which may be protected under federal or state laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that there may be legal ramifications for disclosing this information.
The University Archives operates in accordance with the State Public Records Act, with unrestricted access to records not covered by state and federal statutes and regulations.