What’s ® The Cultural Landscape Foundation ™ Out There connecting people to places tclf.org San Diego San Diego Area Welcome to What’s Out There® San Diego, organized This guidebook is a complement to TCLF’s digital What’s Out by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) and a There San Diego guide (tclf.org/san-diego), an interactive committee of local experts. online platform that includes the enclosed site profiles plus many others, as well as overarching narratives, maps, historic This guidebook provides photographs and details of 34 photographs, and designers’ biographical profiles. The guide is examples of the region’s rich cultural landscape legacy. Its the seventeenth such online compendium of urban landscapes, publication is timed to coincide with the launch of What’s Out dovetailing with TCLF’s web-based What’s Out There, the There Weekend San Diego, October 26-27, 2019, a weekend nation’s most comprehensive searchable database of historic of free, expert-led tours. designed landscapes. Profusely illustrated and carefully vetted, the searchable database currently features more than Inhabited by indigenous peoples for centuries before the 2,000 sites, 12,000 images, and 1,100 designer profiles. first Europeans arrived, the region was occupied by Spanish The database has been optimized for mobile devices and colonists who established the Presidio of San Diego in 1776. includes , a GPS-enabled feature that locates all The settlement remained relatively isolated until the United What’s Nearby States annexed California in 1848. The introduction of the landscapes within a given distance, customizable by mileage or California Southern Railroad in 1885 transformed the Town of walking time. San Diego into a bustling port city. Philanthropists and civic Local committee members Sharon Singleton, Amy Hoffman, leaders, including George Marston and Ellen Browning Scripps, Photo by Kelsey Kaline and Joy Lyndes gave considerable time and energy to this invested in San Diego’s future as a sophisticated metropolis, project. A special word of thanks is owed to Kelsey Kaline, contributing to such projects as City Park (now Balboa Park) who tirelessly researched and photographed many sites. We and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Following World are likewise grateful to the site owners, stewards, volunteers, War II, a lengthy period of urban renewal projects revitalized financial supporters, and other friends of TCLF who made downtown districts. the guidebook and tours possible. We also appreciate your From the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve to the University of interest in What’s Out There San Diego and hope you will enjoy The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) California, San Diego, the region’s legacy of cultural landscapes experiencing the region’s unique and valuable landscape legacy. TCLF is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1998 to connect people to includes sites of exceptional natural beauty and renowned places. TCLF educates and engages the public to make our shared design. Public spaces in the Picturesque tradition by Samuel Sincerely, landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its Parsons, Jr., George Cooke, and horticulturist Kate Sessions live stewards. Through its website, publishing, lectures and other events, side-by-side with significant contemporary projects in various TCLF broadens support and understanding for cultural landscapes. styles, not least among them the Salk Institute for Biological tclf.org Studies by Louis Kahn and Roland Hoyt, and Horton Plaza by Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR Jon Jerde and Wimmer Yamada & Associates. 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