Historic Landscapes Preserved in Special APT Bulletin

As spring flowers bloom in North America, the APT Bulletin offers a special
issue dedicated to historic landscape preservation and rehabilitation. Guest
edited by Shary Page Berg, a landscape preservation consultant and past
president of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation, this issue's
theme, "Landscape Preservation Comes of Age," reflects the complexity and
sophistication of current practice.

Case studies demonstrate landscape preservation theory translated into
practice. Suburban and rural projects include the restoration of Frederick Law
Olmsted's detailed landscape design at Fairsted, his home and office in
Brookline, Massachusetts, and tornado recovery at Andrew Jackson's home, The
Hermitage, in Nashville, Tennessee. The role of landscape preservation in
urban community revitalization is illustrated by rehabilitation efforts in Los
Angeles's Leimert Park Plaza and an ongoing community-action plan centered
around the Harlem Meer in New York City's Central Park.

Readers will be asked to join in an interactive experiment by adding branches
to a tree representing the major groups, activities, and ongoing development
within the historic landscape-preservation movement. As part of this
widespread discussion of the field, one author goes "down under" to look at
the philosophy of landscape interpretation and preservation applications in
Australia, while another shares the details of projects in the largely
agricultural Delaware Water Gap and the Valley Forge National Battlefield. The
use of cutting-edge micro-drilling technology in dendrochronology, or the use
of tree rings in dating past events, is evaluated.

Valuable documentary resources distinguish this issue: a description of
available written and video information about landscape preservation and an
account of the expansion of the Catalog of Landscape Records in the United
States.

Readers will finish their springtime tour with an entertaining and nostalgic
stroll past road signs of the early twentieth century, including both
universal symbols and subcultural markings left by hobos and truckers.

Landscape architects, building preservationists, students, and others
interested in historic landscapes, will find something of interest in this
issue of the APT Bulletin.

Contents include:

The Family Tree of Historic Landscape Preservation: Encouraging Dialogues
about Shared Relationships Hugh C. Miller

Leimert Park's Plaza: Cultural Landscape Rehabilitation in Community
Revitalization Noël D. Vernon and Charles E. Loggins

A Case Study in Ecosystems and Preservation: Lessons Learned from New York's
Central Park Ian Firth and Marianne Cramer

Vegetation Management in Large Cultural Landscapes: Techniques for Preserving
Historic Fields and Vistas Shaun Eyring

Restoring Landscape Character at Fairsted, the Frederick Law Olmsted National
Historic Site Lauren G. Meier

Trees Have a Heartbeat, Too: Micro-Drilling Devices for Landscape Conservation
Achim Jankowski, Wendy Shearer, and John E. Zvonar

Recovering from a Devastating Tornado at Andrew Jackson's Hermitage: A Case
Study Clare Adams

Reconciling Aesthetic Value and Social Value: Dilemmas of Interpretation and
Application Ken Taylor

Some Basic Cultural Landscape Preservation Resources: A Review of Available
Information Noël D. Vernon

Documenting Garden and Landscape History: The Catalog of Landscape Records in
the U.S. Catha Grace Rambusch

Messages along the Roadside Landscape: A Vanishing Art Remembered with
Nostalgia Thomas W. Salmon II

64 pp., 50 illus., $30.00 (U.S.) plus $5.00 shipping and handling.

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