Designing the Parks: Part II
The San Francisco meeting, to be held at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will explore current issues and future trends in park planning and design, building on the research presented at the Charlottesville meeting.
Part 2: December 9-11, 2008
The Present and Future of Park Planning and Design
San Francisco, California
The San Francisco meeting, to be held at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will explore current issues and future trends in park planning and design, building on the research presented at the Charlottesville meeting.
At both meetings, participants will include architects and landscape architects, historians, scientists, national and state park managers, partnership organizations, and others involved in park research, design, and management. Many types of landscape reservations will be the subjects of papers and presentations at both meetings of Designing the Parks, including but not limited to scenic and wilderness reservations, historical and archeological parks, ethnographic and memorial sites, national heritage areas, and protected landscapes of all types. The Charlottesville and San Francisco meetings of Designing the Parks will be linked in terms of content, themes, participants, and mutual relevance.
The purpose of the Charlottesville session is to assess lessons learned through an examination of park planning and design history. The research presented will provide a foundation for presentations and workshops addressing the unique challenges facing current park design and management, which will be the subjects of the San Francisco meeting of the conference. Following the San Francisco session, these principles will be applied to a design charrette to test and validate their conceptual application to future park design. This design charrette is planned to be offered to graduate schools of design across the country. Both meetings of Designing the Parks will also stand independently for those attending one or the other of the meetings.
