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| | What is landscape architecture? |
 | | the aim of landscape architecture is to achieve the Vitruvian objectives of firmitas, utilitas and venustas, interpreted for the early twenty-first century as sustainability, utility and aesthetic satisfaction. |
 | | This suggests a primary concern with the actions taken by man to change the natural landscape, which is not quite the book's subject: he does not include histories of roads, railways, canals, agriculture, forestry or mineral extraction.There is some discussion of city planning but only where the artistic aspect of city planning has been significant. |
 | | It is significant that four of the leading landscape architectural theorists, Meason, Loudon, Geddes and McHarg, all born near Scotland's 'Highland Line'. |
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