What’s ® The Cultural Landscape Foundation ™ Out There connecting people to places tclf.org San Antonio San Antonio, Texas Welcome to What’s Out There San Antonio, San Pedro Springs Park, among the oldest public parks in organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation the country, and the works of Dionicio Rodriguez, prolificfaux (TCLF) in collaboration with the City of San Antonio bois sculptor, further illuminate the city’s unique landscape legacy. Historic districts such as La Villita and King William Parks & Recreation and a committee of local speak to San Antonio’s immigrant past, while the East Side experts, with generous support from national and Cemeteries and Ellis Alley Enclave highlight its significant local partners. African American heritage. This guidebook provides photographs and details of 36 This guidebook is a complement to TCLF’s digital What’s Out examples of the city's incredible landscape legacy. Its There San Antonio Guide (tclf.org/san-antonio), an interactive publication is timed to coincide with the celebration of San online platform that includes the enclosed essays plus many Antonio's Tricentennial and with What’s Out There Weekend others, as well as overarching narratives, maps, historic San Antonio, November 10-11, 2018, a weekend of free, photographs, and biographical profiles. The guide is one of expert-led tours. several online compendia of urban landscapes, dovetailing with TCLF’s web-based What’s Out There, the nation’s most From the establishment of the San Antonio missions in the comprehensive searchable database of historic designed st eighteenth century, to the 21 -century Mission and Museum landscapes. Profusely illustrated and carefully vetted, the Reach extensions of the San Antonio River Walk, the San searchable database currently features more than 2,000 sites, Photo by Genie Cooper Antonio River has continuously shaped the city’s landscapes 12,000 images, and 1,100 designer profiles. The database over the past three centuries. The essays in this guide has been optimized for iPhones and similar handheld devices emphasize this key connection between the river and the city, and includes What’s Nearby, a GPS-enabled feature that with sites such as Main Plaza, established along the river’s locates all landscapes within a certain distance, customizable west bank in 1731 as the civic center of Villa San Fernando by mileage or walking time. de Béxar, the first civilian Spanish settlement in Texas (and predecessor to modern-day San Antonio); Brackenridge Park, On behalf of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, I The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) a major cultural institution just below the river’s headwaters appreciate your interest in What’s Out There San Antonio, TCLF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to that has been a place of human inhabitation for many and I hope you will enjoy experiencing the region’s unique places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared centuries; and Confluence Park, a recent reuse project located and valuable landscape legacy. landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its on a former construction storage yard on a bluff overlooking the Sincerely, stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures and other events, intersection of the San Antonio River and San Pedro Creek. TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes. tclf.org The guidebook also features the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, which, along with the Alamo, is one Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR of only 23 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the United States. 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