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Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Honorary ASLA
The
LaGasse Medal, Non-Landscape Architect category, recognizes
individuals who have made notable contributions to the management
and conservancy of natural resources and/or public lands. The recipient
must possess a minimum of five years in a position directly responsible
for managing natural resources or public lands.
Elizabeth
Barlow Rogers, Honorary ASLA founded the Central
Park Conservancy and served as its first president to bring
citizen support to the restoration and renewed management of Central
Park. A resident of New York since 1964, Ms. Rogers is the first
person to hold the title Central Park Administrator. In 1996, she
formed Cityscape
Institute, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to assisting
citizens and public officials in the improvement of public places.
In April 2001, she initiated a new program in Garden History and
Landscape Studies at Bard Graduate Center, sharing her commitment
to protecting and promoting Central Park and other public spaces
and landscapes.
Read the nomination letter from Alexander
F. Kurnicki, ASLA, and support letters from Adrian
Benepe, Amy
L. Freitag, and Nicholas
Quennell, FASLA.
Harlem Meer before
Photo: Sara Cedar Miller/Central
Park Conservancy
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Harlem Meer after
Photo: Sara Cedar Miller/Central
Park Conservancy
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Great Lawn before
Photo: Sara Cedar Miller/Central
Park Conservancy
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Great Lawn after
Photo: Sara Cedar Miller/Central
Park Conservancy
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Sheep Meadow before
Photo: Sara Cedar Miller/Central
Park Conservancy
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Sheep Meadow after
Photo: Sara Cedar Miller/Central
Park Conservancy
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