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Call for Papers: Designing the Parks

Deadline for Submissions: January 7, 2008

Designing Parks

Please consider submitting a paper on how parks can be designed to incorporate physical activity, provide for our health and well-being, provide connectivity between sites/areas, use sustainable landscaping design and recycled products, incorporate green gardens, green play areas etc.

Call for Papers: Designing the Parks

Designing the Parks is a conference in two parts examining the design of buildings and landscapes in regional, state, and national parks sponsored by the University of Virginia, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, and the National Park Service. This conference will meet for three days in Charlottesville, Virginia (May 20-22, 2008). A three-day work session in San Francisco will follow in the fall of 2008.

In Charlottesville the meeting will be hosted by the University of Virginia and the papers presented will address the history of the planning and design of regional, state, and national parks. The San Francisco meeting, which will be held at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, will explore current issues and future trends in park planning and design, building on the research presented the Charlottesville meeting.

Interested scholars, scientists, park professionals, and design practitioners are invited to submit paper abstracts of no more than 300 words for the Charlottesville meeting of Designing the Parks by January 7, 2008. Send abstracts as attachments to designingtheparks@virginia.edu. For more information contact Ethan Carr (ec2h@virginia.edu), Shaun Eyring, NPS-Northeast Regional Office (shaun_eyring@nps.gov), or Stephanie Toothman, NPS-Pacific West Regional Office (stephanie_toothman@nps.gov).

Kristen Nelson

U.S. Forest Service Interpretive Services

202-205-1406 - kristennelson@fs.fed.us

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