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A.) the best of landscape architecture Firstly, landscape architecture helps people enjoy the outdoors and navigate within the outdoors. For example, many landscape architects design vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian circulation. They design paths that help people get from one place to another and enjoy the scenery along the way. Furthermore, the outdoors and nature are not only beautiful scenery to look at from a distance, nor are they something to merely drive through or hike through. The outdoors and nature are something for people spend time in. Many landscape architects design outdoor spaces for people to sit, to play, to have picnics, to socialize, to learn, etc. Secondly, landscape architecture not only helps people, but also it helps nature. Many landscape architects put native plants into their design, to support native plants. Also, many landscape architects design multipurpose projects that include wildlife gardens or wildlife features that provide amenities for birds and butterflies and other animals. Thirdly, landscape architecture helps people connect with the outdoors and nature. The outdoors and nature are something for people to get up close with, engage with, touch, experience, spend time with, live with, and have a mutually beneficial relationship with. People and nature can help each other. The best thing a landscape architect can do is help people to develop sustainable interrelationships with the land and nature. People use nature: we breathe nature’s air, we drink nature’s water, we grow food in nature’s soil, etc. People need to use nature to live, but we need to learn how to use nature in ways that sustain and enrich nature in order to keep having plenty of nature to use in the future. Landscape architects can help with that.
B.) about the landscape
C.) about landscape architects Landscape Architects are often the professionals who plan and design a landscape. They make illustrative plans, master plans, and construction plans. Landscape Architects often design and draw plans for many of the aspects of the landscape and not only the plants. Landscape architects create planting designs and much more. Landscape architects help clients to decide what existing features (plants, rocks, paths, etc.) in the landscape could be kept and saved, what existing features in the landscape could be removed, how could the land be shaped (with steeper or flatter slopes, etc.), where is the rainwater going to flow across the ground, what new paths and streets could be built to help people get from here to there, what new hardscape items (paved paths, steps, walls, fences, signs, benches, etc.) could be constructed, where could people walk or drive or sit or play or look at a vista, what can be added to the landscape to support nature education and outdoor learning to help people learn about nature, where could buildings and houses be placed on the landscape, how could the landscape be altered to benefit both native plants and native animals, how could the landscape be altered to benefit both people and nature, as well as what plants (trees, shrubs, flowers, etc.) could be planted. Landscape architects may address many other considerations too. Landscape Contractors are often the professionals who construct landscapes. They follow the plans that Landscape Architects draw and draft. Landscape Contractors may pave the walkways, build retaining walls, plant trees, and install drainage and irrigation. Some Landscape Contractors may also physically maintain landscapes by removing fallen leaves, trimming hedges, mowing the lawn, and plowing the snow, etc. Design-Build Firms. A few landscape architecture firms are design-build firms that do both design and construction. Landscape architects deal with both social issues (how people live, move, behave, socialize, and thrive on the land) and environmental issues (now nature lives, behaves, moves, grows, and thrives on the land). Landscape architects try to design landscapes that have people and nature live together in harmony. Landscape architects have multiple concerns and act in many ways; for instance, they act as artists, scientists, sociologists, naturalists, and culturists.
D.) about landscape architecture
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H.) links z-design, a landscape architecture firm in southwest Michigan American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Landscape Architecture Department Landscape Architecture Magazine
I.) Quote from Siftings,
J.) preparing to be a professional landscape architect "THE GOOD CHILDHOOD: Before reviewing testing as technique we are tempted to invite at least a glance at the varied situations comprising present-day childhoods to see if they offer the best early background for a future professional life. They provide mostly experiences just as the schools provide mostly training, and the experiences must be considered enormously important. They include all the responses to a locale, the home and neighborhood influences as well as the excitement of travel, inventing and playing games, vacationing, working in organizations, getting in and out of trouble and tasting life at first hand with considerable independence of action and chance for growing in personal responsibility. The good childhood opens vast opportunities to the imaginative youth over and about what he gains under supervision, and this which is so much a matter of chance is really an indispensable part of the growth of a future professional man. It has been said that every boy should be brought up in a brook. As children we used to scale roof-tops, shoot rats in the manure pit, build boats, keep pigeons, dam streams, make our own sleds and skis, swing on birch trees, operate peep-shows, trap cats and chickens, explore swamps and tide waters, climb mountains and engage in all sorts of impossible and extravagant undertakings. Our escapades made us resourceful, courageous and knowing, and steeped us in the meanings of commonplace delights of the local scene. There should be no need to emphasize the rare values of these ingredients of education in contrast with the benefits of the formal devices of the school-room. There should be no apology for encouraging parents and educators generally to look on these free-time occupations as immensely important to spiritual and practical development in the formative years of youth."
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