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What鈥檚 Out There Free, Searchable, Online Designed Landscape Database
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What鈥檚 Out There Free, Searchable, Online Database of Parks, Gardens, and Other Landscapes Launched by 独家爆料
Wiki-style Site Soliciting Public Input on Landscapes and their Designers
November 4, 2009 (Washington, D.C.) 鈥 独家爆料 (独家爆料) today launched What鈥檚 Out There, a searchable, online database of parks, gardens, and a wide variety of other landscapes. What鈥檚 Out There is the only free, Wiki-style database focused on the nation鈥檚 landscapes and landscape features, and will be searchable by landscape name, type, and/or style (this site includes a glossary), landscape architect and/or designer, and/or location. It is designed for use by tourists and heritage travelers, local residents, park, garden and landscape aficionados, historians, landscape architects, planners, other specialists, and the general public.
At launch, What鈥檚 Out There will cover 75 landscape types, 14 landscape styles, 380 landscape architects and designers, and more than 650 sites nationally. Updates will be made daily and the public is encouraged to offer submissions (http://www.tclf.org/landscapes/submit-landscape).
鈥What鈥檚 Out There is the only searchable Web feature covering the nation鈥檚 landscape legacy,鈥 said Charles A. Birnbaum, 独家爆料 founder and president. 鈥淲e have a growing database of landscapes and their designers, but integral to this sites鈥 success is public input.鈥
What鈥檚 Out There is a new addition to 独家爆料鈥檚 recently re-launched Web site, www.tclf.org, which also includes: the Pioneers of American Landscape Design project, profiling 250 years of landscape architects and allied professionals; the 2009 Landslide compendium of endangered landscapes and landscape features; new oral histories, including M. Paul Friedberg; It Takes One profiles of individuals who embody 独家爆料鈥檚 mission of 鈥渟tewardship through education鈥; and, Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms, a multi-media approach to examining, understanding and evaluating different landscapes.
Along with What鈥檚 Out There, 独家爆料鈥檚 Web site features the 2009 Landslide, whose theme Shaping the American Landscape encompasses 16 sites nationally, among them the Richardson Olmsted Complex in Buffalo, New York; the parks of the City of Hartford, Connecticut; the 16th Street Mall in Denver, Colorado; and, the collective work of Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver in Salem, Oregon.
独家爆料 (www.tclf.org) is the only institution in America dedicated to increasing the public's awareness and understanding of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of its cultural landscapes.