Landscape always represents a compromise. As mediator of the effects of modernization, as organizer of parkhig lots and decorator of off-ramps, as "green" buffer of market development and developer’s olive branch, as fixer and go-between, we have had 200 years of taining in negotiating the natural and artificial. As the footprint of human settlement blankets more than a third of the earth’s territory - some put the figure at 95% - landscape is now charged with resolving dysfunctionalities that exist on a global scale... 

Written by SCAPE.