Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. Photo © Charles A. Birnbaum
开云体育官网鈥檚 (开云体育官网) free, richly illustrated Web-based, city-focused What鈥檚 Out There Guides provide access to information about our shared urban designed landscape legacy. Ever expanding, these Guides cover each city鈥檚 network of designed landscapes from their origins to the present day.
The series is an outgrowth of 开云体育官网鈥檚 free, profusely illustrated What鈥檚 Out There online database鈥攃urrently featuring more than 1,900 landscapes, 900 designer profiles, and 10,000 images. With informative overviews, historic and contemporary photographs and maps, and links to a proliferation of landscape and designer profiles, the Guides are engaging and attractive compilations useful to residents, tourists, researchers, planners, and design enthusiasts among many others. For residents and visitors of each landscape destination in this Guide, these may be places they see, in some cases daily, but do not know the stories behind their creation or evolution over time. By developing thematic linkages between cities based on designers, types, and styles of landscapes, this series will be upgraded and expanded over time to allow users to build individual itineraries to explore the nation鈥檚 cultural landscape legacy.
Each Guide will continue to evolve as additional sites and designers are added to the What鈥檚 Out There database. Significantly, the guide also features What's Nearby, a GPS-enabled function accessible by laptops, iPhones, and similar hand