##02 Landscape Architecture

in #garden7 years ago (edited)

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#Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor public areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and soil conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome.

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Fields of activity

The variety of the professional tasks that landscape architects collaborate on is very broad, but some examples of project types include//:

  1. Parks of General design and public infrastructure.
  2. Sustainable development.
  3. Stormwater management including rain gardens, green roofs, groundwater recharge, Green infrastructure, and constructed wetlands.
  4. Landscape design for educational function and site design for public institutions and government facilities.
  5. Parks, botanical gardens, arboretums, greenways, and nature preserves.
  6. Recreation facilities; i.e.: playgrounds, golf courses, theme parks and sports facilities.
  7. Housing areas, industrial parks and commercial developments.
  8. Estate and residence landscape master planning and design.
  9. Highways, transportation structures, bridges, and transit corridors.
  10. Urban design, town and city squares, waterfronts, pedestrian schemes.
  11. Natural park, tourist destination, and recreating historical landscapes, and historic garden appraisal and conservation studies.
  12. Reservoirs, dams, power stations, reclamation of extractive industry applications or major industrial projects and mitigation.
  13. Environmental assessment and landscape assessment, planning advice and land management proposals.
  14. Coastal and offshore developments and mitigation.
  15. Ecological Design any aspect of design that minimizes environmentally destructive impacts by integrating itself with natural processes and sustainability.

#Landscape managers use their knowledge of landscape processes to advise on the long-term care and development of the landscape. They often work in forestry, nature conservation and agriculture.

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You summarized the meaning of modern landscaping very well. I hope that the major activities of the above landscape architecture become well known and important to society. This is because landscaping eventually leads to the coexistence of nature and man. I hope your articles will be known a lot. (by Google Translate)

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