ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the recent state of landscape architecture’ s sustainable design practices and outcomes, exploring how projects and their approaches are conceptually and thematically positioned. Seven-hundred and fifty published projects claiming sustainability outcomes were identified and investigated, focusing on constructed works primarily in English-speaking contexts in the past two decades. The chapter outlines a systems-based ‘multidimensional sustainability framework’ (MSF) for landscape architecture, which was developed by the author (Zeunert 2017). This framework forms a ‘net’ of eight sustainability themes and 31 sub-themes seeking to provide a holistic purview to inform design thinking, as well as contextualize practice-based outcomes.
