-- Irvine Ranch
-- human intervention in constructing "wilderness" in modern world:
self-concious artifice;
definition of quality of the modern landscape
--story of an undocumented Mexican squatter
--separation extremes:
places we live and the places we want to be
--places lies in-between:
collaboration among historic preservationists, environmentalists and land managers;
entrenched ideas
--appropriate landscape settings
stuck on image
--baggages of:
--historic preservation:
high style architecture and great-name associations
--environmentalists:
idealized wilderness
--public land managers:
conflicts with the preservationists and environmentalists
insensitive bureaucrats
--compatible between the sustainability and stewarship and the continuum
--protecting the natural environment and preserving important elements of the built environment:
national park system needs to meet public demand, political necessity, notion of national park
--Stephen Mather
infrastructure-->tourism-->public support
wilderness and Indians' efforts in shaping the landscape
--New Deal programs
tourism overburden and greater conservation projects
design to manage people
--recreation rather than conservation in 1930s and beyond
demands for redress by wildlife experts
--value of the historical architects within the Park Service in 1970s
illogical categories of land and resource types --> rigid pigeon holes
--lack of professional deference
distrust between historic preservation and natural resource conservation
agreed-upon goals
--lack of professional and institutional arrangements among preservationists, environmentalists and land managers in collaboration
--historic stone piers
fundraising effort
"enable" or "disabled" professionally
--knowledge
--the tangibles of human life by social and cultural historians
blueprints for interpreting material cultural in historical and environmental contexts.
--physical structures in telling stories
economic development through recreational use as well protect the natural resource base
--local history construction
built environment into the natural environment
--agriculture
heritage eduction and heritage tourism
Silos and Smokestacks project --> Cedar Valley Special Resource Study by NPS in 1995-->the project kept growing-->create momentum and attract political support--:Silos and Smokestacks saga
2. Glassberg David, "Interpreting Landscapes"
--landscapes
products of human interaction with the natural environment over time
--analysis of natural setting
powerful natural forces-->environments
--economic forces in shaping landscapes:
--principal determinants over time
--amplified by new technologies of transportation
--natural environments --> landscapes of leisure and work
--sacred landscape
--nature with religious significance
--site of memorable historical events
--political values
--historical landscape
creators' attitude toward the past
passively and actively preserved landscapes
prevailing racial, class, ethnic and gender relationships: dominant individuals and groups
--interpretation of landscapes by environmental and public historians
physical description
social characteristics
investigation
--convergence of social, economic and political forces
--interrelation of places within regions and across the large society
Landscapes and Environmental Perception
--shape of the land and meaning given to it by past generations
--landscapes are product
--interpretation both by local residents and outsiders, past and present
Public History and the Interpretation of Landscapes
--public historians in three professional situations:
expert testimony
expert in preservation strategy
expert in landscape interpretation to the public
--programs and exhibits
--dialogue with various communities
--address the larger social and economic forces shaping the landscape