• History and Ideas
  • Prehistory to Middle Ages
  • Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment
  • 19th Century
  • 20th Century
  • From Millennium to Olympics
• The Genius of Place
  • Design and Vision
  • Planning the Landscape
  • Management and Conservation
  • Historic Conservation
  • The Science of Landscape
  • Cities and Towns
  • Gardens and Parks
• The Power to Change
  • Climate Change
  • Sustainable Communities
  • Environment
  • Housing
  • Hunger
  • Transportation

From the Millennium to the Olympics

The view of the Earth from space may have symbolised the environmental movement in the 20th Century, but many will now be more familiar with it as the first screen they see when they open Google Earth.  This wonderful tool for examining the landscape of the Earth will hopefully increase people's understanding as well as fuelling interest in landscape architecture.

Landscape architecture firms today are often vital, varied practices that work on projects of many scales.  Landscape architects also increasingly work within large, multidisciplinary practices with global portfolios.  Read the interview with Jason Prior of EDAW to hear from someone leading in a large, busy practice.