ABSTRACT
In drawing together some of the key strands of the preceding chapters and in
identifying key drivers that are increasingly shaping our landscapes, it is inter-
esting to cast an eye back to the writing of Brenda Colvin. A founder member of
the Landscape Institute in the United Kingdom, her Land and Landscape, first
published in 1947, became one of the first standard books of the modern
profession in Britain. Fundamental observations, outlined in the revised foreword
to her book in 1973, still ring true many decades later:
In our study of the artistry of our forebears – that is, in the history of
landscape design, emerging as it did from the art of garden design –
we find two opposite philosophical attitudes reflected in the human-
ised landscape of the world.
