Landscaping is a cultural product representing the value of its creator. As the title suggests this essay discusses how humans interact within the environment. By going through the historical content, one will understand how landscaping has been transformed throughout the years which dates back to pre-history and continues until the 21st century. This will show how the natural elements of the land have changed while technology is taking over. The following essay includes discussions presented by researchers while identifying their conclusions and opinions.
In his article, A Word for Landscape Architecture, John Beardsley discusses how landscape architecture and design lacks the attention to the public when compared to other professions. Furthermore …show more content…
From the book Illustrated History of Landscape Design, the authors Elizabeth Boults and Chip Sullivan (2010, p.1), state that “Early ‘landscape design’ elaborated on humankind’s intuitive impulse to dig and to mound”. With this said, our ancestors from the pre-history started their construction works by marking on the grounds and raising stones. Back to these times, the earth was mainly a one whole landscape area where people treated natural landscaping as their homes. However, they began to adjust and change the use of the land to discover and understand what nature has to …show more content…
Some might say that these disasters happen due to enormous scientific and technical advances resulting in wars, global warming, hurricanes, floods and nuclear accidents. Fieldhouse and Harvey point out that there is an urgent need to revive the importance of our environment and mentioning that landscape architects have a crucial part in this profession to prevent from any further disasters.
In the second edition of the book Introduction to Landscape design, John L. Motloch continued to build on its first edition published in 1990 where in the latter, the author wrote about how people are obliged to reshape the world into a better one. This is how one should rediscovery the relationship between humankind and the environment, as the title of this essay suggests. Following the positive feedback of the book’s first edition, Motloch went on to write a second version expanding on certain important points.
Motloch mentions that in 1979 the geographer Donald W. Meinig has examined landscaping in ten different views listed below. These views were observed by a group of people as an exercise in the countryside and the city. Participants were tasked to describe what they see and identifying all the
In his article, A Word for Landscape Architecture, John Beardsley discusses how landscape architecture and design lacks the attention to the public when compared to other professions. Furthermore …show more content…
From the book Illustrated History of Landscape Design, the authors Elizabeth Boults and Chip Sullivan (2010, p.1), state that “Early ‘landscape design’ elaborated on humankind’s intuitive impulse to dig and to mound”. With this said, our ancestors from the pre-history started their construction works by marking on the grounds and raising stones. Back to these times, the earth was mainly a one whole landscape area where people treated natural landscaping as their homes. However, they began to adjust and change the use of the land to discover and understand what nature has to …show more content…
Some might say that these disasters happen due to enormous scientific and technical advances resulting in wars, global warming, hurricanes, floods and nuclear accidents. Fieldhouse and Harvey point out that there is an urgent need to revive the importance of our environment and mentioning that landscape architects have a crucial part in this profession to prevent from any further disasters.
In the second edition of the book Introduction to Landscape design, John L. Motloch continued to build on its first edition published in 1990 where in the latter, the author wrote about how people are obliged to reshape the world into a better one. This is how one should rediscovery the relationship between humankind and the environment, as the title of this essay suggests. Following the positive feedback of the book’s first edition, Motloch went on to write a second version expanding on certain important points.
Motloch mentions that in 1979 the geographer Donald W. Meinig has examined landscaping in ten different views listed below. These views were observed by a group of people as an exercise in the countryside and the city. Participants were tasked to describe what they see and identifying all the