Mr. Balsley is a registered landscape architect and a graduate of Syracuse University and the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He is certified with CLARB.

An active member of the design community, Mr. Balsley has participated as a panelist and lecturer for the Municipal Art Society, The Institute for Urban Design and The Parks Council. He has also been a guest lecturer and design critic throughout the United States, Canada and the Far East-—at the National Building Museum, the International Downtown Association, the Rhode Island School of Design, and at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He is a member of the GSA/AIA “Better Security, Better Design” panel and GSA’s National Register of Peer Professionals.

In an unexpected gesture of recognition for his contributions to landscape architecture and the public, a park he designed on 57th Street in Manhattan was renamed in his honor as Balsley Park.

Recently Spacemaker Press published a monograph of Balsley’s work, entitled “Thomas Balsley: The Urban Landscape.”