Cultural Landscape Practice and the National Park Service

On September 25, 2024, the Urban Heritage Project hosted the third Conversations in Cultural Landscape Preservation, a series of three virtual conversations setting the stage for an in-person symposium (November 14-15, 2024) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Meg Frisbie and Molly Lester of the Urban Heritage Project talk with Jennifer Hanna and Julie McGilvray of the National Park Service about cultural landscape practice within NPS: how has it shifted over time? How does (and how should) cultural landscape thinking inform NPS work and preservation practices across multiple silos and scales? How is it deployed in different parks and regions? Finally, the panelists critically examine how partnerships between NPS and external practitioners can advance the practice of cultural landscape preservation.