ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide a critical review of the development of landscape planning theory and practice and to offer a reference point for future interdisciplinary research and research/practice exchange. Ebenezer Howard's Garden City concept, set out in his classic text To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform, remains a useful starting point for reflection on landscape planning approaches. Pioneers of the new discipline of town and country planning were among the first to indicate ways in which these twin strands of early landscape planning might come together and also to develop practice that helped to inform landscape planning methodology. Landscape ecology has drawn upon an increasingly sophisticated understanding of ecosystem functioning and the role of human activities in shaping landscape change which has been revealed by the application of systems thinking and the rapid development of information technology including Geographic information systems.
