What’s Out There Chicago free, online guide to be unveiled by The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Fourth guide is part of free What’s Out There database of North America’s landscape legacy – currently features more than 1,800 sites, 900 designer profiles & 10,000 images
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Fourth guide is part of free What’s Out There database of North America’s landscape legacy – currently features more than 1,800 sites, 900 designer profiles & 10,000 images
Washington, D.C. (November 4, 2015) – The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) today announced that the What's Out There Chicago Guide, the fourth in a series of free Web-based, city-focused guides, will be unveiled Friday, November 6 at a reception at the Arts Club of Chicago in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The series is an expansion of the free, profusely illustrated What’s Out There online database of North America’s shared landscape legacy, which currently features more than 1,800 site, 900 designer profiles and 10,000 images. The series will be upgraded over time to allow users to build individual itineraries, create links between cities based on designers, the types and styles of landscapes, and other features. The guide, made possible by Project Partner the Illinois ASLA Chapter, and support from the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation and Christy Webber & Company, will continue to grow as additional sites are added to the What's Out There database. The guide also features What's Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all sites in the database within a 25-mile radius of any given location.
“Chicago’s parks and open space network is an unrivaled and world-class collection designed by some of the most talented and influential landscape architects,” said TCLF President and CEO Charles A. Birnbaum.
The guide, designed by Oviatt Media, includes an introduction to Chicago’s designed landscape legacy, an initial 68 sites, each accompanied by six to eight images and a 250-word description, and 43 profiles of associated designers. This is the latest expansion of the What's Out There program, one of TCLF’s main initiative, and joins What's Out There Weekends featuring free expert-led tours in different cities and regions nationally, and What’s Out There guidebooks – for destinations including Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, VA, Toronto, and other locations – that are available through TCLF’s website for purchase as print publications or as free downloadable PDF’s.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), founded in 1998, is a non-profit foundation that provides people with the ability to see, understand and value landscape architecture, its practitioners, and our shared landscape legacy in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its website, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. TCLF makes a special effort to heighten the awareness of those who impact cultural landscapes, assist groups and organizations working to increase the appreciation and recognition of cultural landscapes, and develop educational tools for young people to better connect them to their cultural landscape environs.
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