Annual Spotlights

The annual Landslide initiative highlights significant landscapes that are little-known or at risk of being significantly altered or even demolished. The thematic designees are chosen from hundreds of nominations submitted from across the nation and highlight current issues in design and historic preservation.

In order to bring attention to these significant cultural landscapes, TCLF provides a richly illustrated narrative history of the site, the nature of the threat, and critical information for learning more and getting involved.

  • Shaping the American Landscape

    This year’s theme shines a spotlight on great places designed by seminal and regionally influential landscape figures, which are threatened with change.

  • Marvels of Modernism

    Read about the irreplaceable parks, plazas, reservoirs, gardens, and housing developments that spotlight our diverse postwar garden and landscape heritage.

  • Heroes of Horticulture

    Learn about these amazing horticultural features that have stood steadfast in the face of almost insurmountable natural and cultural odds.

  • Spotlight on the Garden

    Many gardens, like historic buildings, are national treasures on our cultural endangered species list. Those being created by today’s visionaries could be destroyed within a generation.

  • Working Landscapes

    Placing a spotlight on seven at-risk historic rural landscapes where people worked the land: farms and ranches, shipyards and railroad yards.