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February 21, 2003 LANDSCAPE PRESERVATIONIST ROGERS TO SPEAK IN SANTA FE Third Annual J.B. Jackson Lecture offered by UNM School of Architecture and Planning Noted landscape preservationist and historian Elizabeth Barlow Rogers presents a slide lecture, "Building and Rebuilding Central Park: Democracy, Design, Philanthropy, and Preservation," on Thursday, March 13 at 6 p.m. in the Forum Lecture Hall at the College of Santa Fe. In this third annual J.B. Jackson Lecture of the University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, Rogers will focus on the challenges and accomplishments of undertaking Central Park's restoration, first as commissioner of Central Park in 1979, then as president of the Central Park Conservancy. "Rogers represents a rare combination of both scholar and activist," Chris Wilson, J.B. Jackson Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, said. She spearheaded the Central Park restoration as well as authoring the definitive textbook on landscape architecture, he said. Her books include "Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History," as well as "The Forests and Wetlands of New York City" and "Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan." Originally from San Antonio, Texas, the lessons of her distinguished career as a preservationist and historian are currently finding a home in the Garden History and Landscape Studies Ph.D. program at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, which she founded and directs. "We hold the J.B. Jackson lecture in Santa Fe because he lived there and because we want to reach out from UNM to Santa Fe," Wilson said. Rogers' lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the J.B. Jackson Endowment. # # #

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