{"id":12645,"date":"2026-05-13T16:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/landscape\/?p=12645"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:17:50","slug":"slap-faculty-florida-planning-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/landscape\/slap-faculty-florida-planning-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving Old Florida: Research From the UF School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Featured in Florida Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Preserving Old Florida: Research From the UF School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Featured in <em>Florida Planning<\/em><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-f460a5b16405f154fa5917e97caa3dbb\">Read the full story in&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/apa_florida\/docs\/spring_2026_issue_florida_planning_magazine_hi?fr=sOGIzYjgzNTYyNjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida Planning<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-17ce198e0e0e71f4a04875d9929d79ce\">Faculty from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/slap\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Florida School of Landscape Architecture and Planning (SLA&amp;P)<\/a>&nbsp;recently had their cover story featured in the spring issue of&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/apa_florida\/docs\/spring_2026_issue_florida_planning_magazine_hi?fr=sOGIzYjgzNTYyNjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida Planning<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>magazine. SLA&amp;P houses both the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/urp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URP)<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Department of Landscape Architecture (LAE)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-edbabae426b2cfaec21ed595e3758649\">\u201cUnderstanding Old Florida: Planning and Preservation Research in Action\u201d, explores the team\u2019s research on the meaning behind the term \u201cOld Florida\u201d and the importance of preserving Florida\u2019s cultural and historical sites. Faculty working on this research include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-12afc957d0b52fe518b235208457d1d1\">Kyle Dost, AICP | Urban and Regional Planning\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-77b02b337b09120a6df46af27dcc2ed0\">Dr. Cleary Larkin | Urban and Regional Planning<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-248eba3168a1647db31dfb7a0e6a1af0\">Dr. Kathryn Frank | Urban and Regional Planning\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b418e66144292fad3edd42d622c9edb8\">Dr. Nicholas Serrano | Landscape Architecture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-b882b8f010137ffc4a8572bc861941ae\">The team centered their research on the town of Cedar Key, Florida, a gulf coast community of 800 residents that remains a pristine example of \u201cOld Florida\u201d. The town is primarily a mix of fishing, local business, and small-scale tourism, having become more dependent on the latter two since the 1996 state-wide \u201cNet Ban\u201d. Working alongside students and community members, faculty conducted their research in a variety of ways that culminated in a better understanding of the town and its cultural significance as a representation of Old Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4f2a62f8bf72f3a6eb5a73ab7a725156\">Beginning in 2023, the town experienced four major hurricanes in just fourteen months, decimating waterfront development and local businesses \u2013 a tragedy the community is still recovering from today. After the hurricanes, Dr. Cleary Larkin, director of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/historic-preservation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Historic Preservation Program<\/a>, secured listings for the town on the National Trust for Historic Preservation\u2019s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places and Florida Trust\u2019s 11 to Save list in 2025.\u00a0URP\u2019s Kyle Dost and his team analyzed the prevalence of cultural landscapes in academic practice and literature, noting a lack of representation for \u201cOld Florida\u201d and recognizing the importance of taking multiple perspectives into account to find common ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c52beb050b0be013fe4c6ecbfb64cf96\">In the Fall of 2025, students from URP\u2019s Dr. Kathryn Frank\u2019s Graduate Community Engagement course traveled to Cedar Key to explore the town and engage residents in conversation about their own definition of \u201cOld Florida\u201d. A collaboration with the Cedar Key Historical Society Museum, the project had residents record their thoughts with postcards and photographs, highlighting the waterfront, historic structures, and local food traditions \u2013 presenting \u201cOld Florida\u201d as a living, evolving cultural landscape rather than a static historical site.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-d851ac0abfa6ad7220ba2d75c6ea3e1d\">LAE\u2019s Dr. Nicholas Serrano and a team of students also conducted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dcp.ufl.edu\/landscape\/uf-landscape-architecture-attends-2026-cela-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cartographic analysis of the town to better understand the evolution of the region\u2019s landscape and ecology<\/a>. The analysis focused on moving from isolated site documentation to a landscape-scale assessment of coastal hazard exposure for regions prone to natural disasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-95fc52999035b2e9875e06a7f97ad2db\">Overall, the research team aims to expand their analysis to other gulf coast communities in order to find ways of empowering locals with the tools they need to preserve these cultural landscapes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preserving Old Florida: Research From the UF School of Landscape Architecture and Planning Featured in Florida Planning Read the full story in&nbsp;Florida Planning. Faculty from the&nbsp;University of Florida School of Landscape Architecture and Planning (SLA&amp;P)&nbsp;recently had their cover story featured in the spring issue of&nbsp;Florida Planning&nbsp;magazine. 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