San Antonio is making strategic infrastructure investments reminiscent of those in Toronto and Houston where new parks and open spaces are being built to a high level of design, often leveraging a diversity of public and private partnerships with leadership coming from multiple sectors. What distinguishes San Antonio is a greater density of rich and complex heritage resources that includes the Missions, the Alamo and others, which are integral to the city’s identity and serve diverse constituencies. A core part of this heritage is Brackenridge Park, a site rich in cultural resources.

To explore options for the Park’s future and to initiate and inspire broad community-based participation, The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) is curating a one-day summit to be held on Friday, March 3, 2017 at The Stable at Pearl. The summit, convened in concert with the Brackenridge Park Conservancy (BPC), will draw attention to local, regional, and national project work that are exemplars of planning and design, while striking a balance for a landscape’s complex natural, historic, cultural, and ecological systems.

First, introductory remarks by representatives from the BPC and TCLF will set the stage. Then, a morning panel featuring local speakers will explore San Antonio-area success stories where planning has embraced multiple values (e.g. natural, scenic, and cultural). An afternoon panel will include four speakers from around the country who will be charged with addressing Brackenridge Park’s myriad planning and design challenges. This panel will be solutions-oriented and will draw on each speaker’s national and international experience. Both sessions will have a moderator responsible for setting the stage and serving as a facilitator. Both panels will also have “respondents” who will comment on the presentations.

The summit is co-sponsored and co-produced by The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Brackenridge Park Conservancy with generous support from presenting sponsors, Pearl, The John and Florence Newman Foundation, and the City of San Antonio - Parks and Recreation Department, media partner, The Rivard Report, Preservation and a consortium of other sponsors.

Available to paid registrants:

6.5 LA CES™ professional development hours

6.5 hours of AIA Learning Units