John William Gregg was a 20th century professor of landscape architecture

Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions...

 at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

.http://books.google.com/books?id=wKTNAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA73&dq=%22john+william+gregg%22+landscape+architect&hl=en&ei=C_ShTffqH4GisQPW5Mn5DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22john%20william%20gregg%22%20landscape%20architect&f=false Gregg designed the townsites of California Census Designated Places Delhi, California

Delhi, California

Delhi is a census-designated place in Merced County, California, USA. Delhi is located west-northwest of Merced, at an elevation of 118 feet...

 and Ballico, California

Ballico, California

Ballico is a census-designated place in Merced County, California. It is located northwest of Atwater, at an elevation of 151 feet . The population was 406 at the 2010 census....

 as twentieth century model agriculture townships.http://books.google.com/books?id=T5VDAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA5-PA87&dq=%22john+william+gregg%22+landscape+architect&hl=en&ei=C_ShTffqH4GisQPW5Mn5DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22john%20william%20gregg%22%20landscape%20architect&f=false He and University of California, Los Angeles

University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. It was founded in 1919 as the "Southern Branch" of the University of California and is the second oldest of the ten campuses...

 artchitect, William Hays, designed the original Beaux-Arts architecture master concept plans for the University of California, Davis

University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...

's campus in the early 1920s. Gregg worked with University of California Botanical Garden

University of California Botanical Garden

The University of California Botanical Garden is a 34 acre botanical garden located on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The Garden is in the campus's Strawberry Canyon which overlooks the San Francisco Bay...

 director Thomas Harper Goodspeed

Thomas Harper Goodspeed

Thomas Harper Goodspeed was a botanist specializing in the genetics of species Nicotiana. He was the director of the University of California Botanical Garden from 1919 to 1957...

to move the botanical garden from its central campus location to the hills above the campus.

Education

Gregg was raised on a small ranch in rural New Hampshire. He received his B.S. from the University of Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Career

He started the Landscape Architecture program at Pennsylvania State College. He then followed Dr. Hunt
the dean of the college to the University of California Berkeley, where he started the Landscape
Architecture program. The Landscape design program was originally under the College of Agriculture,
as a separate department.