How to define landscape design
Landscape, whether in the West or in China, is a beautiful and difficult-to-explain concept.
Geographers define landscape as a scientific term, which is defined as a kind of appearance, or a comprehensive natural geographical area, or a general name for a type of unit, such as urban landscape, grassland landscape, forest landscape, etc.; Artists use landscape as an object of expression and reproduction, which is equivalent to landscape architects using landscape as the scenery or background of buildings; ecologists define landscape as an ecosystem or a system of ecosystems; tourism scientists regard landscape as a resource;
More commonly, landscape is equated by urban beautification activists and developers with urban streetscape facades, neon lights, landscaping and sketches in real estate, and fountains and water. A more literary and broad definition is "a scene that can be displayed in one picture and can be seen in full from a certain viewpoint.
Especially a natural scene." But even if it is the same scene, for Different people will have very different understandings, as Meinig said ten versions of the same scene (1976): Landscape is what people think The longing for nature, landscape is the habitat of human beings, landscape is a man-made handicraft, landscape is a material system that requires scientific analysis to be understood, landscape is a problem to be solved, landscape is a resource that can bring wealth, and landscape is a reflection The ideology of social ethics, morals and values, landscape is history, and landscape is beauty.
As an object of landscape design, landscape refers to the complex composed of land and the spaces and objects on the land. It is the imprint of complex natural processes and human activities on the earth, which can be understood and expressed as:
Landscape: the object of the visual aesthetic process;
Habitat: human and The space and environment where other living things live;
Ecosystem: an organic system with structure and function, and internal and external connections;
Symbol: a way to record human past and express Hopes and ideals are the language and spiritual space for identification and sustenance.