Planning

Field Session

FS-009 - Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway—100 Years

5.75 PDH, LA CES/HSW, FL, NY/HSW

Field Session Co-Leader(s)

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  Susan Weiler, FASLA

  OLIN

Field Session Leader(s)

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  Halford Welch, ASLA, AICP

  Senior Director of Capital Projects
  Center City District of Philadelphia

Field Session Presenter(s)

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  Gail Harrity

  President and COO
  Philadelphia Museum of Art
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  Harris Steinberg, FAIA

  Executive director and distinguished teaching professor
  Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel University

Part of the City Beautiful movement, this mile-long civic vision of architecture and landscape, in its centennial year, has evolved into an incomparable cultural campus of exceptional museums, gardens, and parks amid a vibrant growing city. Learn how it continues to be influenced by contemporary landscape architects and civic leadership.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss and identify the importance of the role of landscape architecture in the design and preservation of a culturally significant and historic landscape within a contemporary city
• Learn the process of positive collaboration with cultural institutions, government agencies and not-for-profit entities.
• Learn the challenges of planning and designing amidst the historic presence of the Cret and Greber master plan, civic engagement and funding
• Gain an understanding of the evolution and impact of landscape architecture over the past 100 years and its influence on the development of other cities