ABSTRACT
The problem of beauty Landscape architects are much concerned with beauty, both the contrived beauty of gardens and the natural beauties of the countryside, but what is it that makes a scene beautiful? Are there any underlying principles of aesthetics that will help us to recognise or create beautiful places? For landscape architects this is not an idle question, for they may often be called upon to defend their ideas of beauty, sometimes in the quasilegal surroundings of a public planning inquiry.
