Ernest Wong, Founder and Principal of Site Design Group, leads a tour of three of the firm’s award-winning urban parks. The tour begins at the Park at Lakeshore East, a 5.6 acre oasis in the heart of the Lake Shore East development, which features a blend of vast green spaces, cascading water elements, and intimate gardens. Next we travel to Bridgeport to explore Stearns Quarry Environmental Park, transformed from an old stone quarry into a sustainable park with wetland terraces, native plants, and a fishing pond.

This panel of expert historians and historic landscape stewards will explore the relationship between two of America's greatest nineteenth-century Romantic landscapes: Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's Central Park, and Olana, Frederic Church's villa and landscape garden. Speakers include Sara Cedar Miller, Central Park Conservancy historian and photographer and author of Central Park: An American Masterpiece; Katherine H. Kerin, Olana Landscape Curator; Evelyn D. Trebilcock, Olana Curator. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies, will moderate.

The 2010 California Preservation Foundation Conference—The Sierra Nevada: Preserving A Sense of Place—will take place in Nevada County from Wednesday, May 12 to Saturday, May 15, 2010. Events include more than 30 sessions, tours, and workshops on issues facing California's historic, cultural, and natural resources. Exclusive tours will highlight Nevada County architecture, landscapes, history, and local culture. Continuing education units are available for AIA, MCLE, and AICP.

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The first Pioneers Symposium of 2010 will place a focus on the unique Post War legacy of public and private landscapes in Texas. Register Today!