FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Alice Ingerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 01, 1999 10:09 AM 1999 AMERICAN LANDSCAPE LECTURE SERIES at the HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN All lectures are free and begin at 6 pm in Piper Auditorium at the Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge. For more information, call the National Park Service at 617/566-1689 x 204. RECONSIDERING PARKS, SUBURBS, AND REGIONS at the Centennial of the American Society of Landscape Architects Tuesday, March 9 IDEAL LANDSCAPES AND THE IDEAL LAND: AMERICAN PARKS AND THE ROOTS OF REGIONAL PLANNING Ethan Carr, Landscape Architect and Historian, National Park Service, and Author, Wilderness by Design. American parks, from Central Park to Yosemite Valley, are expressions of civic ideals as well as reservoirs of natural resources and national imagination. These ideal landscapes embody society's highest goals for the American landscape. This lcture examines the relationship between park design and regional planning in the United States. Tuesday, March 18 ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMY, AND EQUITY: THE REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION'S TRI-STATE VISION Robert Yaro, Executive Director, Regional Plan Association, and Co-Author, A Region at Risk: A Plan for Our Future. Regional planning emerged in response to growth, changing character, and critical problems of 20th-century urban development. This talk explores changing environmental, economic, and social views as reflected in plans for the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Region, beginning with the First Regional Plan, published in 1929, to the Third Plan, released in 1996. Tuesday, April 13 THE SHAPING OF AMERICA'S SUBURBS: FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED AND CLARENCE STEIN Alexander Garvin, Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning and Management, Yale University, and Author, The American City: What Works, What Doesn't. The forms of our subdivisions and planned communities can be found in the design principles of these two men, one a landscape architect, the other a city planner. This talk traces how these principles continue to shape the development and marketing of condominiums, gated communities, and neotraditional town planning. The series is sponsored by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Historic Massachusetts, Inc., Department of Environmental Management of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site of the National Park Service, Department of Landscape Architecture of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation of the National Park Service, The Trustees of Reservations. ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
