ABSTRACT
Landscape is a dynamic system, not a static stage set. Some landscapes are ‘fast change’, for example where there are intense development pressures or where there is a reclamation programme for industrially damaged land. Some landscapes are ‘slow change’ and their visual impression of change may be restricted to seasonal colours; even so, they are still gradually and imperceptibly being altered by human and natural drivers. An awareness of the inexorability of change in all landscapes is fundamental to the ways in which we seek to inhabit, manage, design and plan them.
