ABSTRACT
All professions dealing with the environment are concerned with the creation of Utopia. Landscape architects, architects, planners, engineers, ecologists, economists, sociologists, biologists-the list goes on-all respond to the basic human urge to create our own Garden of Eden. Creating landscapes within which we can work, play, live and learn-create the good life-is at the core of all we strive for. As D.W.Meinig in distilling the writings of J.B.Jackson on the American landscape wrote:
In the broadest view, all landscapes are symbolic, every ‘landscape is a reflection of the society which first brought it into being and continues to inhabit it’, and, ultimately landscapes represent a striving to achieve a spiritual goal; they are ‘expressions of a persistent desire to make the earth over in the image of some heaven’.1
