Landslide 2021

Race & Space

Hidden Histories Revealed
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Landslide 2021

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Race and Space: Hidden Histories Revealed presents thirteen sites across eleven states and spanning almost a millennium of history. These cultural landscapes broaden our awareness about the origins of our nation and illustrate the dramatic social and geographic changes of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Examined together, these sites represent local stories and global themes, shedding light on how settlement and removal, slavery and Jim Crow, urban renewal, and environmental injustice have shaped our national landscape and continue to impact communities, families, individuals, and cultural and natural resources.

Carpenter Creek Pensacola, Florida

Chickasaw Park Louisville, Kentucky

Dabney Hill Burleson County, Texas

Friendship Park San Diego, California

Lincoln Avenue Corridor New Rochelle, New York

Lindsay Heights Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Milton Lee Olive Park Chicago, Illinois

Nikwasi Mound Franklin, North Carolina

Rochester Heights Raleigh, North Carolina

Sandy Ground Staten Island, New York

Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground Richmond, Virginia

Water's Edge Oxford, Maryland

Wink's Panorama Lincoln Hills, Colorado

The Throughlines

The Landslide 2021 sites have several common qualities or characteristics that assist in understanding their respective histories. Referred to as “throughlines” these characteristics also offer guidance for the future stewardship of each site and our broader legacy of cultural landscapes.

Spatial Nostalgia

For those cultural landscapes that no longer possess physical and tangible evidence of the past, how are memories visualized? Where is longing to be placed? Many forms of living and non-living landscape features can provide a connection to place that transcends what is seen only in a glance.

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Erasure

Establishing and advancing the dominance of one culture over another through erasure has been a tactic of war, colonization, and oppression for most of human history, and it has supported an American narrative for centuries. Cultural landscapes have the unique ability to help us reveal eradicated, hidden, and lesser-known stories.

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Amplifying Community Voices

By understanding and leveraging the expertise of residents and community-based groups, landscape architects engage community members to develop site-specific solutions. Hands-on planning produces results that are responsive to community assets, needs, and desires.

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Redefining Integrity

As evidenced throughout our history, time is not the only test facing a historic site, and human achievements are not all gained, perceived, or acknowledged equally. We have the opportunity -- and obligation -- to expand our understanding of the historic significance and integrity of individual sites and their treatment, and of cultural landscapes in general.

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Landslide Program

The goal of Landslide^® is to draw immediate and lasting attention to threatened cultural landscapes.

Landslide sparks debate, revealing the value of places we experience daily and encouraging informed community-based stewardship. Landslide monitors at-risk landscapes and produces annual thematic reports to help save our shared landscape legacy for future generations. Through web-based news stories, traveling exhibitions, technical assistance, and print publications, Landslide mobilizes and amplifies support for that legacy at the local, state, and national level.

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