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Von Bart Lootsma
We could do with reading this!
"The debate about the landscape is almost always first and foremost a very emotional one. Even if already for a long time landscapes are the product of their cultivation, there is still the idea that landscape equals nature. And nature, unless it produces a direct threat to civilization, is always good and beautiful. Landscape architects have always relied on the implicit goodness of what they are doing. Now they are facing a period in which they have to make strong proposals for regional plans that are based on strong argumentations to seduce and convince politicians, in a similar way that urban planners and designers from the beginning of the twentieth century did for the city. They will have to make dirty hands and not just by putting plants in pots. They will have to do research into the processes that transform these regions. And, just like the generation of architects and urbanists that grew up in the nineteen twenties, they will have to involve themselves in politics, in the formulation of laws and norms to come up with a consensus about a bureaucracy that is able to deal with the issues that are involved in the contemporary landscape."
"Designing is not enough: it is about the implementation of schemes and the limitation of undesirable and unsustainable developments."
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