The Present and Future of Cultural Landscape Practice

Investigation and research in the field of cultural landscapes is needed now more than ever as landscape architects and regional planners are asked to
expand and change their practices to address the issues of climate change, global urbanization, and economic inequality. Practitioners engaged in the field
of cultural landscapes today are building a vital and necessary dimension of continued and innovative success in their professions. This lecture series will
provide insight into the past, present and future of cultural landscape research and practice.

Spring 2015 Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

Thursdays, 4:00 pm, SoM 133

DESIGNING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

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1/29 Robert Page FASLA
Brenda Barrett
Elizabeth Brabec JD
Director, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation,
Patricia O’Donnell Professor, LARP, UMass; co-director, graduate certificate
National Park Service, Northeast Region
Editor, “Living Landscape Observer”; National Coordinator,
FASLA, AICP program in Cultural Landscape Management Cultural Landscape Preservation in Heritage Areas for the US National Park Service
Landscape Architect & Planner, founder of Heritage
Landscapes LLC.
The Layering of Landscapes: The Context: Responding to a Changing Cultural Landscapes in the United
Sustaining & Revitalizing Cities & effects of religion, war and ethnic Environment States: Taking the Movement to Scale
Heritage in the Urban Millennium cleansing
through Effective Change Management

3/5 4/2 4/9

2/26 Flavia Montenegro-
Ethan Carr PhD, FASLA
Professor, LARP, UMass; co-director, graduate certificate
program in Cultural Landscape Managemen
Robert Melnick FASLA
Professor and Former Dean of the School of Architecture &

Deanna Beacham Menezes Designing Living Landscapes: Origins

Allied Arts

American Indian Program Manager, National Park Services Assistant Professor, LARP, UMass; co-director, graduate Protecting Cultural Landscapes in the
Chesapeake Bay ofice certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management and Significance of Cultural Landscape Era of Climate Change
Indigenous Cultural Landscape: Origin The Social Value of Heritage: Towards Research in Landscape Architecture
Story and Early Development People-centered Approaches to
Conservation

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The Present and Future of Cultural Landscape Practice
Investigation and research in the field of cultural landscapes is needed now more than ever as landscape architects and regional planners are asked to
expand and change their practices to address the issues of climate change, global urbanization, and economic inequality. Practitioners engaged in the field
of cultural landscapes today are building a vital and necessary dimension of continued and innovative success in their professions. This lecture series will
provide insight into the past, present and future of cultural landscape research and practice.

Spring 2015 Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sponsored by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning

Thursdays, 4:00 pm, SoM 133

DESIGNING CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

1Patricia
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O’Donnell FASLA, Flavia Montenegro-
AICP
Landscape Architect & Planner, founder of Menezes
Heritage Landscapes LLC. Assistant Professor, LARP, UMass; co-

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director, grad certificate program in Cultural
Sustaining & Revitalizing
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Landscape Management
Cities & Heritage in the Urban Montenegro-Menezes is an assistant professor in the Department

Millennium through Effective

of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst

Deanna Beacham
and co-directs the graduate certificate program in Cultural Landscape
Management. She received her PhD in social sciences, regional planning,
Change Management and environment, and her Master’s degree in development and integrated
regional planning in France. Formerly, as an architect and urban planner
A landscape architect and planner, O’Donnell founded Heritage American Indian Program Manager, National in Brazil, Montenegro-Menezes developed and managed projects dealing
Landscapes LLC, Preservation Landscape Architects & Planners, Charlotte with community engagement, endogenous development, and regional
VT & Norwalk CT in 1987. With some 500 successful project credits, she
Park Services Chesapeake Bay ofice environmental issues. Her research, teaching, and outreach interests
is a US and international leader in heritage preservation, lecturer on the involve the correlations between cultural and biological diversity with
UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, and a World
Heritage expert. She serves as the Global Chair, IFLA Cultural Landscapes
Indigenous Cultural regard to the wellbeing and adaptive capacity of societies and the
integrity of their environments.

Landscape: Origin Story and

Committee and US Voting Member, ICOMOS IFLA Cultural Landscapes
International Scientific Committee.
The Social Value of Heritage:
Early Development Towards People-centered
Beacham is the American Indian Program Manager for the National Park
Service Chesapeake Bay office, and formerly served as the American
Indian Program Specialist for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Born in
Approaches to Conservation
Norfolk, Virginia, of Weapemeoc heritage, Beacham is the author of the

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indigenous cultural landscape concept, and works with the National Park
Service and other agencies and partners to further that concept for land

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conservation, education, and indigenous interpretation on protected
lands.

Elizabeth Brabec JD
Professor, LARP, UMass; co-director, grad
certificate program in Cultural Landscape
4 /2

2 Ethan Carr
Management PhD, FASLA
The Layering of Landscapes:
The effects of religion, war
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certificate program in Cultural Landscape

and ethnic cleansing

Robert Page FASLA
Managemen

Director, Olmsted Center for Landscape Designing Living Landscapes:

Origins and Significance of
Brabec is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture
and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst and co-directs the graduate Preservation, National Park Service,
certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management. She previously
Northeast Region
served as Department Head in LARP, as well as at Utah State University.
With a Master in Landscape Architecture from the University of Guelph, Cultural Landscape Research
Canada, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland, she founded
the landscape planning firm, Land Ethics, Inc. in Washington, D.C.
Cultural Landscape in Landscape Architecture
Brabec’s teaching and research interests are focused on culture and
heritage and how they impact the use of land, land conservation and the
design and planning of sustainable open space.
Preservation in Context: Carr is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and
Regional Planning at UMass Amherst and co-directs the graduate
Responding to a Changing certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management. He is the author
of several books on the history of American park planning and design and

Environment
is an editor of the papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Page serves as Director of the National Park Service Olmsted Center for
Landscape Preservation in Boston, Massachusetts. The Olmsted Center

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supports national parks with preserving cultural landscapes through a
wide range of research, planning, stewardship and education activities.

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He has been involved with the development of policies, programs, and

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standards for cultural landscape management in the national park system
including coordinating the National Park Service Cultural Landscapes

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Inventory, co-authoring A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports: Process,
Contents, and Techniques; and overseeing the preparation of cultural

Brenda Barrett landscape reports and landscape preservation maintenance in national

parks throughout the United States.

Editor, “Living Landscape Observer”;

National Coordinator, Heritage Areas for the
Robert Melnick FASLA
Professor and Former Dean of the School of
US National Park Service
Architecture & Allied Arts
Cultural Landscapes in the Protecting Cultural
United States: Taking the Landscapes in the Era of
Movement to Scale Climate Change
Barrett is the editor of the Living Landscape Observer, a web site
providing commentary on landscape scale conservation, historic Melnick is Professor of Landscape of Landscape Architecture, University
preservation and sustainable communities. She served as the National of Oregon, and Senior Cultural Resource Specialist with MIG, Inc, in
Coordinator for Heritage Areas for the US National Park Service and Berkeley and Portland. He is co-editor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes
has led programs in state conservation and heritage agencies. She is in America (2000) and has published widely on theoretical and practical
an expert member of the ICOMOS International Committee on Cultural issues relating to cultural and historic landscapes. His written works and
Landscapes. professional projects have received numerous national awards from the
American Society of Landscape Architects, the Society of Architectural
Historians, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently
working on thorny issues around climate change and how we understand
and protect cultural landscapes.

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ZUBE Lecture
Patricia M. O’Donnell FASLA, AICP
Heritage Landscapes LLC

Sustaining & Revitalizing Cities & Heritage in the Urban

Millennium through Effective Change Management
A landscape architect and planner, O’Donnell founded Heritage Landscapes LLC, Preservation Landscape Architects & Planners, Charlotte
VT & Norwalk CT in 1987. With some 500 successful project credits, she is a US and international leader in heritage preservation, lecturer on
the UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, and a World Heritage expert. She serves as the Global Chair, IFLA Cultural
Landscapes Committee and US Voting Member, ICOMOS IFLA Cultural Landscapes International Scientific Committee.

Thursday 1/29/15
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ZUBE Lecture
Elizabeth Brabec JD
Professor, LARP, UMass; co-director, Graduate
Certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management

The Layering of Landscapes:

The Effects of Religion, War and Ethnic Cleansing
Brabec is a professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at UMass Amherst and co-directs the graduate
certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management. She previously served as Department Head in LARP, as well as at Utah State
University. With a Master in Landscape Architecture from University of Maryland, she founded the landscape planning firm, Land Ethics,
Inc. in Washington, D.C. Brabec’s teaching and research interests are focused on cultura and heritage and how they impact the use of land,
land conservationand the design and planning of sustainable open spaces.

Thursday 2/5/15
T H U R S DAY , F E B R UA RY 5, 2 0 15 / 4:0 0 P M
S C H O O L O F M AN AG E M E N T 1 3 3 / U M ASS. E DU/ LA RP
ZUBE Lecture
Brenda Barrett
Editor, Living Landscape Observer
National Coordinator, US National Park Service

Cultural Landscapes
Barrett is the editor of the Living
Landscape Observer, a web
site providing commentary on
landscape scale conservation,

in the United States: historic preservation and sustainable

communities. She served as the
National Coordinator for Heritage

Taking the Movement Areas for the US National Park

Service and has led programs in state
conservation and heritage agencies.

to Scale
She is an expert member of the
ICOMOS International Committee on
Cultural Landscapes.

Thursday 2/19/15
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ZUBE Lecture
Deanna Beacham
American Indian Program Manager

Indigenous Cultural Landscape:

Origin Story and Early Development
Beacham is the American Indian Program Manager for the National Park Service Chesapeake Bay office, and formerly served as the American
Indian Program Specialist for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, of Weapemeoc heritage, Beacham is the author of the
indigenous cultural landscape concept, and works with the National Park Service and other agencies and partners to further that concept for
land conservation, education, and indigenous interpretation on protected lands.

Thursday 2/26/15
T H U R S D AY , F E B R U AR Y 2 6, 2 0 15 / 4:0 0
P M S C H O O L O F M AN AG E M E N T 137 / U M A SS. E DU /
LAR P
ZUBE Lecture
Robert Page. FASLA
Director, Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
National Park Service, Northeast Region

Cultural Landscape Preservation in Context:

Responding to a Changing Environment
Page serves as Director of the National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation in Boston, Massachusetts. The Olmsted Center
supports national parks with preserving cultural landscapes through a wide range of research, planning, stewardship and education activities.
He has been involved with the development of policies, programs, and standards for cultural landscape management in the national park
system including coordinating the National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Inventory, co-authoring A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports:
Process, Contents, and Techniques; and overseeing the preparation of cultural landscape reports and landscape preservation maintenance in

Thursday 2/12/15
national parks throughout the United States.

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ZUBE Lecture
Maryann P. Feldman
Heninger Distinguished Professor,
Department of Public Policy, University
of North Carolina

Regional Inequality:
Defining & Measuring Economic
Development
Maryann Feldman, winner of the 2013 a book, was entitled the Geography
Global Award for Entrepreneurship of Innovation. The work examined
Research, presented by the Swedish the spatial distribution of industrial Maryann Feldman,
Entrepreneurship Forum and the innovation and provided an empirical Heninger Distinguished
Research Institute of Industrial model of the factors and resources
Professor in the Department of

Cultural Landscapes
Economics. Feldman’s research and that affected the production of new Barrett is the editor of the Living
teaching interests focus on the areas product innovation and was published Public Policy at the University
Landscape Observer, a web
of innovation, the commercialization in the American Economic Review, the of North Carolina and winner
site providing commentary on
of academic research and the factors Review of Economics and Statistics of the
landscape 2013
scale Global Award for
conservation,

in the United States:

that promote technological change and the Annuals of the Association of
and economic growth. The 2013 Global American Geographers. This work is historicEntrepreneurship Research,
preservation and sustainable
presented
communities. by the
She served Swedish
as the
Award for Entrepreneurship Research noted to be the first time that the term
recognized her contributions to the geography was used to describe spatial Entrepreneurship
National Coordinator Forum and the
for Heritage

Taking the Movement

study of the geography of innovation
and the role of entrepreneurial activity
in the formation of regional industry
phenomenon and is now an accepted
lexicon. Currently, the geography of
innovation is a subject area under the
Research
Areas Institute
for the US NationalofPark
Service and has led programs
Industrial
Economics.
in state
conservation and heritage agencies.

to Scale
clusters. Feldman’s dissertation, strategy division of the academy of She is an expert member of the
which was subsequently published as management.​ ICOMOS International Committee on
Cultural Landscapes.

Thursday 3/5/15
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ZUBE Lecture
Flavia Montenegro-Menezes
Assistant Professor, LARP, UMass;
Co-director, grad certificate program in Cultural Landscape Management

TheSocial
The Social Value
Value of Heritage:
of Heritage:
Towards People-Centered
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Brazil, and her developed
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adaptive capacity of societies and the integrity of their environment.
planner in Brazil, Montenegro-Menezesdeveloped and managed projects dealing with community engagement, endogenous development,
and regional environmental issues. Her research, teaching, and biological diversity with regard to the wellbeing and adaptive capacity of

Thursday 3/26/15
societies and the integrity of their environments.

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ZUBE Lecture
Ethan Carr PhD, FASLA
Cultural Landscape Preservation in Context:
Professor, UMass LARP

Responding
Designing Living to a Changing Environment
Landscapes:
Origins and Significance of Cultural Landscape Research in Landscape Architecture
Page serves as Director of the National Park Service Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation in Boston, Massachusetts. The Olmsted Center
supports national parks with preserving cultural landscapes through a wide range of research, planning, stewardship and education activities.
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system including coordinating the National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Inventory, co-authoring A Guide to Cultural Landscape Reports:
Landscape Management. He is the author of several books on the history of American park planning and design and is an editor of the papers of Frederick Law Olmsted.
Process, Contents, and Techniques; and overseeing the preparation of cultural landscape reports and landscape preservation maintenance in

Thursday 4/2/15
national parks throughout the United States.

T H U R S DAY , AP R I L 2 , 2 0 15 / 4:0 0 P M
S C H O O L O F M AN AG E M E N T 1 3 7 / U M ASS. E DU/ LA RP
ZUBE Lecture
Robert Z. Melnick FASLA
Professor, Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon

Protecting Cultural Landscapes

in the Era of Climate Change
Melnick is Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Oregon, and Senior Cultural Resource Specialist with MIG, Inc, in Berkeley and
Portland. He is co-editor of Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (2000) and has published widely on theoretical and practical issues
relating to cultural and historic landscapes. His written works and professional projects have received numerous national awards from the
American Society of Landscape Architects, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently

Thursday 4/9/15
working on thorny issues around climate change and how we understand and protect cultural landscapes.

T H U R S D AY , AP R I L 9, 2 0 15 / 4:0 0 P M
S C H O O L O F M AN AG E M E N T 1 3 7 / U M A SS. E DU / LA RP