ABSTRACT
The development of environmental values—that way of looking at things that pays attention to environmental opportunities and limitations—is thus equally important to the development of landscape planning principles. The interest in environmentally sensitive land use planning owes much of its current momentum to the research efforts of environmental scientists. One branch of the landscape planning legacy can be traced to the reforming visions of Utopian idealists. The "garden cities" proposed by Ebenezer Howard, an English inventor in the 1890s, were similarly motivated by a desire to overcome the problems of industrialized cities. Frederick Law Olmsted's proposals are significant in the evolution of landscape planning principles because they represent a radical change in attitude toward the natural environment within urban areas. Olmsted always assessed the land and its capabilities before formulating a plan for its development. Although his assessment techniques were not sophisticated, his intention was thoroughly modern.
