Nancy Pollock-Ellwand

B. Landscape Architecture, MArch, PhD (Planning)

With a background in a broad spectrum of design - Landscape Architecture, Architecture and Planning - and serving as Dean of a design faculty with a multi-disciplinary profile, I am dedicated to a collaborative perspective in my teaching and research, and in others I supervise and lead.  My own research focuses on the history of landscape as it is manifest in urban reform, landscape design and heritage conservation.  I am currently writing a book on the Olmsted Firm in Canada, and I serve as an Expert Advisor to the International Council on Monuments and Site as a Cultural Landscape specialist.  Most recently saw my involvement in a panel advising to the Japanese government on the nomination of Mt. Fuji as a World Heritage Site.  

In the contemporary environment I am most interested in urban design that can lead to the careful management of water resources - a concern that was underscored by my last few years spent in the driest city, in the driest state, in the driest continent in the world - the City of Adelaide, South Australia.    This is a concern that has yet to come to the fore, with as much urgency, in many North American environments but the lessons are there for all communities that are concerned about the security of their water quality and quantity.

Books     

• 2004/6. Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Preston, S. Landscape Legacies. Toronto, ON: U of T Press. 563 pages

Chapters and essays in Books

• 2008.Pollock-Ellwand, N. "The Canadian Olmsted Projects" In, The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857 to 1979  ( second edition). L. Lawliss, Caroline Loughlin and L. Meier (eds.). Tranquility, NJ: National Association of Olmsted Parks.  pp.14-18 (and extensive correction of Canadian job listings throughout document).  348 pages.
• 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "The Critical Divide: Landscape Policy and Its Implementation". In, John Weins and Michael Moss (eds.). Issues in Landscape Ecology. Second Edition. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Pages 281-295.
• 1995. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "A Homestead Restored". In, Edwinna von Baeyer, and Pleasance Crawford (eds.). Garden Voices: Two Centuries of Canadian Garden Writing. Toronto: Random House Canada. pp. 122-126

Major Refereed Journal Articles

• 2011. Pollock-Ellwand, N. (Accepted). "Gordon Culham: Living a 'Useful Life' through the Professionalization of Canadian Landscape Architecture and Town Planning." Planning Perspectives: And International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment.
• 2011. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "Common Ground and Shared Frontiers In Heritage Conservation And Sustainable Development: Partnerships, Policies And Perspectives." Special Issue: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainable Development. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology. Vol. 18 (3) June, 2011, 236-242.
• 2010. Pollock-Ellwand, N.  "Rickson Outhet: Bringing the Olmsted Legacy to Canada. A Romantic View of Nature in the Metropolis and the Hinterland".  Journal of Canadian Studies. 44 (1): 1-46.
• 2010. Pollock-Ellwand, N. (Accepted with Revisions). "A Useful Life. The Professionalization of Landscape Planning and Design in Canada. Gordon J. Culham". Planning     Perspectives: And International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment.
• 2009. Pollock-Ellwand, N. , Yokohari, M. , Miyamoto, M. and Kano, Y. "Commerce and Conservation: An Asian Approach to an Enduring Landscape, Ohmi-Hachiman, Japan".  International Journal of Heritage Studies. 15(1): 36-56
• 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N.  "The Olmsted Firm in Canada: A Correction of the Record". Planning     Perspectives: And International Journal of History, Planning and the Environment. 21 (3): 277-310.
• 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N.  "Travelling the Route from Designation to Local Action: The Case of the Underground Railroad Settlement in Buxton, Ontario, Canada" International Journal of Heritage Studies. 12 (4): 372-388.
• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "Gréber's Plan and the ‘Washington of the North': Finding A Canadian Capital In The Face of Republican Dreams". Landscape Journal.  20(1): 48-61.
• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "Landscape Policy and Planning Practice: The Gap In Understanding, Ontario, Canada". Landscape Research. 26(2): 99-118.
• 1996. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "The Need for Holism: A Landscape and Pluralist Perspective". in, Gordon Nelson and John Marsh (eds.). Environments: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies. 24(1): 94-96.
• 1995. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "Cultural Landscapes and Environmental Ethics: The Case of Puslinch Township's Historic Roadside Trees". Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics. 7(2): 189-203.
• 1992. Pollock-Ellwand, N. "Heritage Advocacy in the Cultural Landscape'. APT Journal. XXIV (3-4): 71-77.

Edited Proceedings/Monographs

• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. (editor). Borderlands: 1999 Conference Proceedings of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. US National Park Service and the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation. Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo.
• 2000. Pollock-Ellwand, N. (guest editor). 1999 Proceedings, Parks Research Forum of Ontario: Challenges to Parks and Protected Areas in Ontario. Waterloo, ON: Heritage Resources Centre, University of Waterloo. 450 pages.
• 1999. Pollock-Ellwand, N., Van Osch, K, and Nelson, J.G. (eds.) with Beechey, T., Stephenson, W. and Marsh, J. Parks and protected Areas in Ontario. Proceedings of the Parks Research Forum of Ontario (PFRO), Annual General Meeting, April 22nd –23rd . Waterloo, ON: Heritage Resources Centre. 515 pages.
• 1995. Pollock-Ellwand, N., Nelson, J.G., and Stroud T. (eds.). Landscape Planning: Implications of the Proposed New Ontario Heritage Act. Occasional Paper #25. University of Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre.

Manuals and Reports

• 2001 to 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Cassidy, J. “History of Cultural Form Course Manual: LARC*1950DE” (Reader and Website as well for this Distance Course), Office of Open Learning, University of Guelph. 196 pages.
• 2004. Nikittuittuq Ltd. Kekerten Historic Whaling Station Master Plan. Iqualuit, Nunavut: Nunavut Parks Department. 65 pages. (Part of Planning Team)
• 2004. Recreational Resources Ltd. Uvajuq (Mt. Pelly) Territorial Park Plan. Iqualuit, Nunavut: Nunavut Parks Department. 35 pages. (Part of Planning Team)
• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. Community-Based Landscape Inventory. Parks Canada, Ontario Region, Cornwall, ON. March 20th. 28 pages.
• 2000. Pollock-Ellwand, N. Buxton National Historic Cultural Landscape Inventory: Phase One- Data Assembly. Parks Canada, Ontario Region, Cornwall, ON. March 30th. 61 pages.
• 1999. Pollock-Ellwand, N. et al (Part of International team that authored report to cross-sectoral Island organization on Countryside Sustainability). Isle of Wight Countryside Exchange Report. Cold Spring, NY: Countryside Exchange. 25 pages.
• 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. June 1998. Blair Cultural Landscape Inventory Project. Ontario Ministry of Culture, Toronto, Ontario. 45 pages.

Refereed Conferences and Proceedings

• 2011. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Planning Innovations with Cultural Landscapes: Canada, New Zealand and Australia”. CSLA-AAPC Congress 2011. On the Land. Iqaluit, Nunavut. July 14 – 17 Juillet; and moderator ‘Value Heritage’ session.
• 2008. Ma, M. (Presenter) and Pollock-Ellwand, N. “”Reanimation of a Heritage Site: The Case in Alhambra”. Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia Dedicated to Digital Heritage (VSMM 2008), October 20th-25th, 2008 in Limassol, Cyprus
• 2007. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Exploring Aboriginal Approaches to Cultural Landscapes: At the Frontier of New Planning Perspectives. IFLA Conference. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. August 24th to 29th, 2007.
• 2007. Ma, M. (Presenter) and Pollock-Ellwand, N. “In Search of the Garden Atmosphere within the Court of the Lions, Granada, Spain: A Landscape Architectural Perspective”. 5th International Conference on Science and Technology in Archaeology and Conservation, July 7-10, 2007 in Baeza and Granada, Spain
• 2005. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Out of America: The Olmsted Firm in Canada”. IFLA Conference., Edinburgh, Scotland. June 25th -July 1st , 2005.
• 2005. Pollock-Ellwand in panel at Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture. Session on Distance Education in Landscape Architecture. September, 25th, 2005. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia .
• 2004. Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Douglas, D. “Collaborative Education of Practitioners: Landscape Architects and Planners”. OPPI/OALA Conference. Deerhurst Resort, Gravenhurst. September 9th –12th.
• 2004. Pollock-Ellwand, N., Limousin, M. and Gosselin, H. “The Rabbits Sit Beside The Foxes Here”. IFLA World Congress, May 26th, Calgary, Alberta.
• 2002. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “The Path to the Promised Land: A Terminus to the Underground Railway”. ICOMOS Canada Momentum 2002 – Cultural Routes: A Heritage to Rediscover. pp. 75-85.
• 2000. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Intergenerational Learning at the Terminus of the Underground Railroad: Using Landscape-based High School Curriculum”. CELA 2000 Proceedings. University of Guelph. August 4th -6th.
• 2000. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Community-Based Heritage Data Collection: Incorporation into High School Curriculum.” Proceedings of Caring for our Land and Water: Stewardship and Conservation in Canada. Guelph, ON.
• 1999. Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Nelson, J.G. “Land Use History, Landscape Change and The Role of Parks and Protected Areas”. Keynote Presentation. Challenges to Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario: Parks and Protected Areas Research In Ontario. Annual Meeting, Guelph, ON., April 22nd and 23rd, Waterloo, ON: PFRO, pp. 11-22.
• 1999. Pollock-Ellwand, N., Van Osch, K. and Nelson, J.G. “Introduction to Special Sessions On parks and Protected Areas In Southern Ontario”. Challenges to Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario: Parks and Protected Areas Research In Ontario. Annual Meeting of Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario. Guelph, ON., April 22nd and 23rd, Waterloo, ON: PFRO, pp. 1-2.
• 1999. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Borderlands – Introduction” Conference Organizer of International Conference on the Shared Experience of Landscape between Americans and Canadians. Niagara-on-the-Lake, May 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Notes from the Plenary Chair”. What Works?: Heritage Day Workshop. Cambridge, Ontario: Grand River Conservation Authority. pp. 97-99.
• 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Building Community and Conserving Cultural Landscapes”. Parks and Protected Areas In The Canadian Shield: Information and Research Needs. Annual Meeting of Parks and Protected Areas In Ontario. Peterborough, ON, February 5th-6th. Waterloo, ON: PFRO, pp. 326-329.
• 1995. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Ontario’s Landscape Legacies: A Model for a Province-wide Inventory”. in, John Marsh and Janice Fialkowski (eds.). Linking Cultural and Natural Heritage. (Proceedings of a Conference at Trent University). Peterborough: The Frost Centre for Canadian Heritage Development. pp. 91-116.
• 1995. Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Dakin, S. “‘Landscape’: From Concept to Practice”. in J. G. Nelson, N.D. Pollock-Ellwand, and T. Stroud (eds.). Landscape Planning: Implications of the Proposed New Ontario Heritage Act. Occasional Paper #25. University of Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre. pp.13-18.
• 1995. Pollock-Ellwand, N., and Nelson, J.G. “Introduction: Landscape Planning, Implications of the Proposed New Heritage Act”. in J. G. Nelson, N.D. Pollock-Ellwand, and T. Stroud (eds.). Landscape Planning: Implications of the Proposed New Ontario Heritage Act. Occasional Paper #25. University of Waterloo: Heritage Resources Centre. pp.1-2.
• 1991. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Discovering the Hidden Resource: Historic Landscapes”. (Proceedings of the Travel and Tourism Association - Canada Conference). in, Laurel Reid (ed.). Tourism -- Environment -- Sustainable Development: An Agenda for Research. Ottawa: Environment Canada and Statistics Canada. pp. 43-54.
• 1991. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Southwestern Ontario Heritage Landscape Inventory: A Method of Data Collection, Storage and Dissemination”. in, Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture Proceedings. Volume III. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan: Landscape Architecture Foundation, Landscape Architecture Program. pp. 118-131.
• 1991. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Southwestern Ontario Heritage Landscape: An Inventory with a Difference”. In, Land and History. pp. 1-4.

Invited Lectures

• 2011. City of Calgary Library, Calgary Heritage Authority, and City of Calgary Land Use Planning and Policy. “Old Stone, New Concrete”, March 11, 2011.
• 2010. Calgary Heritage Authority. “Heritage Trends and Calgary”. July 23, 2010. Calgary City Hall.
• 2009. Mt. Fuji World heritage Nomination Advisory Group (five members from around the world consulting on the nomination package). “An Asian Approach to Cultural Landscape Management- Ohmi-Hachiman, Japan”. International Experts Conference on the Inscription of Mt. Fuji to World Heritage Status. Shizuoka Prefecture Conference Hall, September 7, 2009.
• 2008. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “From Sodom and Gomorrah to Kath and Kim”. Research Tuesday Talk (public lecture series featuring top researchers at the University and broadcast on Radio Adelaide, June 20, 2008). University of Adelaide, Bonython Hall, May 13th.
• 2008. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Cultural Landscape Work in Australia”. Cultural Landscape Scientific Committee Meeting. International Council on Monuments and Sites. September 28th to 30th. Charlotte, Vermont.
• 2007. Coordination of Community Workshop on Cultural Landscapes in Collaboration with University of Tokyo in Ohmi-Hachiman, Japan, October 2nd to 5th, 2007.
• 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Cultural Landscape Conservation in Canada”. Tokyo, Japan. Japan Institute of Rural Landscape Planning. June, 2006 (translation: Makoto Yokohari)
• 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Buxton, Canada and Omi-Hachiman, Japan: A Comparison of Cultural Landscapes”. Omi-Hachiman City Council, Japan. May, 2006. (translation: Makoto Yokohari)
• 2006. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Sustainability and Cultural Landscapes”. Sustainability Cities Conference: Stuttgart, Naples and Kyoto. University of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. May, 2006.
• 2005. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Cultural Landscape Conservation in Canada”. ICOMOS/IFLA 2005 Meeting. Brussels, Belgium. February 12th- 14th.
• 2004. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Canadian Trends in Cultural Landscape Conservation”. ICOMOS/IFLA 2003 Meeting. Berlin, Germany. October 3rd.
• 2004. Pollock-Ellwand, N. June 25th, 2004, “The Landscape Idea and the Case of Buxton, Ontario”. Heritage Landscape Guidelines Workshop, Ridgetown, Ontario.
• 2004. Pollock-Ellwand, N. September, 2004. "Cultural Landscape Conservation". Heritage Workshop, University of Waterloo, Heritage Resources Centre Waterloo, Ontario.
• 2003. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “LA Title Acts and LARE: Do They Have to Go Together?”, CSLA 2003 Awards Symposium, March 1st. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba.
• 2003. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Buxton N.H.S.: A Landscape Perspective on the Underground Railway”. Black History Month Workshop, February 21st. Toronto, York University.
• 2003. Pollock-Ellwand, N. Heritage Day Celebrations Wrap-Up Address, February 14th, Guelph Youth Music Centre.
• 2002. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Capital Design: Searching For The 21st Century Landscape of Ottawa”. CSLA 2002 Awards Symposium. February 23rd. Winnipeg, University of Manitoba.
• 2002. Pollock-Ellwand, N. June 2002. ,"Conserving Cultural Landscapes at a Local Level". Legacy Cambridge, Cambridge, Ontario.
• 2002. Pollock-Ellwand, N. May 2002. “Women in the Design Professions”. Women at Work. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. INVITED.
• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. May 2001. "Canadian Cultural Landscape Report". Annual Meeting 2001, Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes- ICOMOS-IFLA, Budapest, Hungary.
• 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Borderlands: The US/Canadian Shared Experience of Landscape”. Alliance of Historic Landscape Preservation, Grey Towers (Gifford Pinchot Estate, Pennsylvania). June, 1998.
• 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Gréber and the ‘Washington of the North’”. CSLA Conference, Université de Montréal. March. 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. January, 1998, Opening Address, Women in the Profession… a ten year retrospective on the profession of Landscape Architecture. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
• 1997. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Building Community through Cultural Landscape Identification”. CELA Conference, University of North Carolina. September 10th –13th. 1997. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Community-based Data Collection”. Community Heritage Ontario Conference: ‘Continuity with Change’. Penetanguishene, Ontario. September 26th –28th .
• 1996. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Blair Cultural Landscape CD-Rom and Community Heritage Data Collection”. Alliance of Historic Landscape Preservation Annual Conference. Burlington, Vermont. 

Thesis

• 1997. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Planning for the Landscape Idea”. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Waterloo. Defence, August 1997.

Professional Publications and Book Reviews

• 2007. Pollock-Ellwand, N. and Grosset, C. Winter/Hiver. “Coming to Terms with Cultural Landscapes/L’Acceptation des Paysages Culturels”. Landscape/Paysage. 9(1): 36-39.
• 2005. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “New York City: Concrete and Clay, A Book Review”. Landscape Research. July Issue.
• 2004. Pollock-Ellwand, N. Exhibit Text. “Olmsted and the British Properties”. West Vancouver Museum.
• 2003. Pollock-Ellwand, N. 2004. “Le Parc Historique de Kekerten: Kekerten Historic Park”. Landscape/Paysages. Vol. 5, No. 2, page 34.
• 2003. Pollock-Ellwand, N. 2003. , “Les Chefs-d’oeuvre de nos laureats d’un océan à l’autre/ Award-Winning Work from Coast to Coast". Landscape/Paysages, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 8-13.
• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “The Hunter’s Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth Century America.” Book Review, Landscape Research. 25(3): 215- 217.
• 2001. Pollock-Ellwand, N. Fall 2001. “International Committee on Monuments and Sites”. CSLA Bulletin. 16(3):14.
• 2000. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “Student Reaction to 9/11”. Letter to the Editor. Landscape Architecture.1 (January): 7. 1998. Pollock-Ellwand, N. “The Boulevard That Ate Ottawa”. Globe and Mail, Op Ed, June 12th.
• 1994. Publications listed in the “Cultural Landscape section of Edwinna von Baeyer’s A Selected Bibliography for Garden History in Canada. (Revised Edition) Ottawa: Parks Canada, Canadian Heritage. p.14.

Exhibition

• 1995. Work on the restoration of Motherwell Homestead included in exhibition, Interpretations of Nature, held at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

Recent Doctoral Supervision

• 2011-12. External Supervisor (Principal while in Australia). Mansoor Ma. Light, Colour and Views: Islamic Interpretation of the Visual Trajectory from the Alhambra’s Mirador de Lindaraja during Sultan Mohammad V’s Second Reign.
• 2010. Principal Supervisor to External. Namarata P. Vishwasrao. June 2010. Sustainable Water Management in Semi-Arid India: Learning from the Gond and Kohli Indigenous Communities.

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