Conducting a Cultural Landscape Assessment

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Examine types of cultural landscapes, and learn how to research and document cultural landscapes utilizing key information sources, technologies and best practices.
• Learn more about applying National Register of Historic Places criteria to determine a cultural landscape’s period(s) of significance, and to identify/evaluate the character-defining features and elements that contribute to landscape integrity.
• Learn to evaluate treatment practices and more fully understand the challenges (organizational, fiscal, maintenance) involved in managing and interpreting a cultural landscape as a dynamic, evolving, people-oriented place.

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Cultural landscapes are works of art, narratives of culture, and expressions of regional identity. Through studying their form, patterns and features, and ways they are used, planners can understand much about cultural landscapes and our evolving relationships with the built environment and natural world.

Reviewing Levi’s Plaza, a landscape designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, learn how to inventory and document existing conditions; determine period(s) of historic significance; evaluate integrity through analysis of contributing features and elements; and develop treatment options, including the preparation of a cultural landscape management plan, strategies for ongoing maintenance, and future research recommendations.

Session Speakers

Aaron J. Tuley, AICP
Speaker
Baxter & Woodman, Inc
Katy, TX

Gretchen Boyce
Speaker
ICF
San Francisco, CA

Laurie R. Matthews
Speaker
MIG, Inc.
Portland, OR