Landscape Architecture

Geographically, the idea of landscape is the most significant expression of the historical attempt to bring together visual image and material world; indeed it is in large measure an outcome of that process. The etymological roots of landscape lie in substantive connections between a human collective (denoted by the suffixes -schaft, -ship, -scape) and its common or usufruct rights over the natural resources of a bounded area (land) as recognized in customary law (www.degroot-inc.com). But from its late-sixteenth-century appearance in English, such usage has always been subordinated to that of landscape as an area of land visible to the eye ...