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The Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation Conference
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Tucson is the oldest continually settled community in the United States and a cultural crossroads containing pre-historic, Spanish Colonial, ranching, mining, military, territorial, Mexican, and mid-century modern heritage landscapes. Surrounded by four mountain ranges and with 350 days of sunshine, Tucson’s natural beauty and access to outdoor recreation attracts visitors from around the world.
These themes will be presented in morning sessions of presenting papers and summaries of works-in-progress that will promote lively and thoughtful discussions about cultural landscape conservation. These will be reinforced by afternoon field trips along the Kino Mission Trail (including Tumacacori, San Xavier and the Mission Garden), a tour of Tucson including a landscape designed by Garrett Eckbo, a visit to the El Tiradito Shrine and Barrio as well as a visit to Tumamoc Hill (a significant site for the Tohono O’Odham First People), and a visit to the famous Empire Ranch.
Founded in 1978, much to the efforts of ASLA members, this is the 40th annual conference of the Alliance. AHLP is one of the earliest interdisciplinary professional organization established to share mutual interests and concerns about the preservation and conservation of historic landscapes in all its variety, from formal gardens and public parks to rural and natural expanses.
Today the Alliance is an international organization with members representing education, private practice, non-profit organizations and government agencies. Landscape architecture, geography, history, horticulture, planning, public administration and architecture.
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