Why are commercial developers, urban planners, architects and public policy makers hiring landscape architects with increasing frequency?
Thoughtful landscape architecture adds value to a commercial development by handling aesthetic and practical considerations, and addresses the growing public concern for the environment. In recent years, the most successful building projects in terms of profitability and positive client public response have been those that incorporate the collaborative expertise of many professions. In such cases, landscape architects and the other design professionals have worked together from the project’s planning stages. Q. Granted that landscape architects add value to commercial developments, what is the ongoing value of the profession to public land management? In the 18th and 19th centuries, the profession’s forerunners in England and France laid the foundations for the world’s first great public parks. Landscape architects have been associated with public land management since the earliest members of the profession in America helped establish national parks at Yosemite Valley (1864) and Niagar
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