EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Landslide: Great American Landscapes at Risk
The Cultural Landscape Foundation unveiled a new program entitled Landslide: Great American Landscapes at Risk in 2002 that focused on masterworks of landscape architecture, spanning approximately 250 years of design excellence that are in danger of being destroyed.

The list for 2002 included such works as the East Plaza of the U.S. Capitol Grounds, Washington, DC; Seneca Park, Rochester, NY; Skyline Park, Denver, CO; Heritage Park, Forth Worth, TX; River Road Estates, Louisville, KY; Concordia Seminary, Fort Wayne, IN; Christopher Columbus Park, Boston, MA; and many more.  A complete list of sites with a detailed history, description of the threat, and ways to help can be viewed at www.tclf.org/landslide. 

The Landslide program received national attention in 2002 with articles in the Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, Garden Design, Journal Gazette, Landscape Architecture, and Parade Magazine.  This publicity helped spark several grassroots efforts across the country to protect the landscapes highlighted by the program.

Planning has already begun for the next Landslides list, which will focus on "working landscapes", and is scheduled to be unveiled on the website in Spring 2004. 

Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms
Unveiled at Chicago Mayor Daley's First Annual Greening Symposium in March 2002, The Prairie Idealized: Columbus Park is the first web-based site in the Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms (CLC) series.  After approximately two years of production, the Columbus Park site at www.tclf.org/columbus has garnered national attention and praise for its innovative and captivating design and content.

TCLF was proud to participate in an exhibition honoring landscape architect, Jens Jensen and his masterworks, including Columbus Park.  It was a privilege to have the CLC site included at the exhibition, where visitors had a chance to explore Columbus Park using one of three interactive kiosks equipped with the CD-ROM.

This year also marked the beginning of production for the next two CLC projects:  Laying Lightly on the Land, which will focus on Frederick Law Olmsted's parks and parkways in Louisville, Kentucky, and Modern Garden Icons, which will compare and contrast the Miller Garden by Dan Kiley and the Donnell Garden by Thomas Church, two of America's preeminent examples of post-war gardens that have maintained their integrity.  

In June 2002, members of the creative team and content advisors traveled to Charlotte, Vermont to film landscape architect Dan Kiley and discuss his memories of the design process of the Miller Garden, located in Columbus, Indiana.  In August 2002, the creative team traveled to Louisville for preliminary filming and researching for the Olmsted CLC site.  Production of these two sites is scheduled to last through 2004.