What’s Out There® Austin Austin, Texas Welcome to What’s Out There® Austin, organized by numerous municipal improvement projects. In the next three The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and the decades, the land dedicated to public parks exceeded 7,000 City of Austin Parks and Recreation Department, acres, and included a ten-mile-long recreation trail along both with support from national and local partners sides of the Colorado River. Today, Austin’s landscape includes and generous funding provided by the National 18,000 acres of public parks—not to mention greenbelts, Endowment for the Arts Art Works program. trails, historic sites, and 30 view corridors that preserve sightlines to the Capitol. As architecture critic Paul Goldberger This guidebook provides details about almost 30 examples has said: “Austin is a city that embraces the new, as does so from the significant legacy of parks, parkways, and public much of Texas, but it connects comfortably and even proudly open spaces that make Austin an unrivaled destination. to the old, as not all of Texas is willing to do.” At least since 1894, Austin has been called the “City of the What’s Out There Austin dovetails with TCLF’s Web-based Violet Crown,” inspired by the radiant, rosy glow that extends What’s Out There, the nation’s most comprehensive searchable above the horizon just after sunset. Established amidst rolling database of historic designed landscapes. The database hills, the Balcones canyons, and the twisting form of the currently features more than 1,900 sites, 10,000 images, Colorado River, the site—then called Waterloo— was selected Photo by Lorenzo De Paolis in 1839 to serve as the capital of the Republic of Texas. The and 900 designer profiles.What’s Out There is optimized for first land set aside to be used as a public park (today’s Pease iPhones and similar handheld devices, and includes What’s District Park) was donated by Governor Elisha Pease in 1875. Nearby, a GPS-enabled function that locates all landscapes in By the end of the 1880s, the city witnessed the establishment the database within a 25-mile radius of any given location. of a statewide education system with the founding of the On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, we University of Texas, and displayed the exuberance of civic appreciate your interest in What’s Out There Austin and hope pride with the construction of the Renaissance Revival Capitol you will enjoy experiencing the city’s unique and unparalleled The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) on a high point overlooking the growing city. In 1924, the landscape legacy. TCLF provides the tools to see, understand and value landscape architecture and Violet Crown Garden Club was established at Laguna Gloria, a Mediterranean villa at the base of Mount Bonnell. The Austin its practitioners in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and Sincerely, Recreation Department was established in 1928 to manage their designers. Through its website, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF the city’s growing collection of parkland, which, by 1940, broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to totaled some 2,000 acres and included Zilker and Rosewood help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations. Parks and Parque Zaragoza. In the 1930s, Austin benefitted Charles A. 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