"Affordable Landscapes: The growing numbers of blighted residential districts all over the world call for cost-effective ideas to upgrade public space."
Australian landscape architect Elizabeth Mossop has an interesting article currently at Topos about the state of the profession and the opportunities that landscape architects have to shape the world beyond the realm of "privileged landscapes" where their work has traditionally been focused.
The key to future directions in landscape architecture is to broaden our ideas of landscape practice. Future practice must encompass all types of landscapes and all landscape problems. Landscape issues must become an intrinsic part of all developments; therefore, landscape practice must become "affordable."Link: Topos Issue: 2005/50 - Affordable landscapes
Via: urbanism.org