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New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana What’s Out There® New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana Welcome to the What’s Out There® New Orleans Today, the city’s cultural landscape legacy includes the guidebook produced by The Cultural Landscape iconic, early eighteenth century Vieux Carré Historic District Foundation (TCLF) in cooperation with NOLA and the late twentieth century Postmodernist Piazza d’Italia Parks for All. (designed by Charles Moore and Perez & Associates), along with antebellum plantations, Picturesque-style parks, This guidebook provides photographs and details for 50 gardens, and cemeteries, institutional grounds and others, examples from the incredible legacy of the city’s parks and making it one of the nation’s most distinct destinations. public open spaces. Its publication is timed to the annual meeting of the American Society of Landscape Architects This guidebook complements TCLF’s comprehensive What’s being held October 21-24, 2016 during which time Out There New Orleans Guide - tclf.org/neworleansguide - an more than 6,000 practitioners will visit New Orleans. The interactive online platform that includes all of the enclosed guidebook is also a preamble to What’s Out There Weekend essays plus extensive additional information. The Guide is New Orleans, featuring two days of free, expert-led tours that one of a number of online compendia of urban landscapes, will be held in 2017. dovetailing with TCLF’s Web-based What’s Out There, North America's most comprehensive searchable database of The curious mélange that is New Orleans has developed historic designed landscapes, with thousands of sites and over the span of three centuries beginning in 1718 first as images, and optimized for iPhones and similar handheld a French colony (La Nouvelle-Orléans), then part of the Photo by Jane Satterlee devices. It includes What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled function Spanish Empire (Nueva Orleans) after the Treaty of Paris that locates all landscapes in the database within a 25-mile (1763), then back to the French under Napoleon before radius of any given location. being sold to the U.S. (part of the Louisiana Purchase) in 1803. Strategically located at the mouth of the Mississippi We are grateful for the support of the Turner Family River, the city became one of the nation’s most populous Foundation, Sheila and Tommy Lemann, Zemurray and prosperous by the mid nineteenth century – today its Foundation, and Victor Stanley. On behalf of TCLF, we port is still one of the nation’s busiest. Though a center for appreciate your interest in What’s Out There New Orleans The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) the slave trade, the city was not subjected to the extensive and I hope you will enjoy experiencing the city’s unique and TCLF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to wartime devastation other southern cities experienced during unparalleled landscape legacy. places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared the Civil War; as part of Louisiana, it was admitted to the landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its Union in 1868. In the twentieth century, the city grew through Sincerely, stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures and other events, drainage and land reclamation projects, leaving roughly half TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes. the metropolitan area located below sea level and protected tclf.org by levees. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 caused levees to break resulting in devastating and deadly flooding. New Orleans’ Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR subsequent civic renaissance continues. 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