The principles of landscape planning are now incorporated in various types of legislation and policy documents. McHarg's work on overlay landscape planning contributed to the development of GIS and to the foundation of ESRI by Jack Dangermond. Frederick Law Olmsted and Ian McHarg are two influential American landscape architects that also worked as planners. But, unlike Canada and Europe, the US does not have a national land use planning system. In the United States, landscape architects provide landscape planning services focused on the natural environment along with urban planners. An example of landscape planning in use is the plans of RWE in the wake of its mining operations and how they plan to use leftover detritus and soil in their re-cultivation efforts to restore the damaged ecosystems and landscapes created by open pit mines (e.g. Patrick Abercrombie took up this idea and incorporated it in his great 1943-4 Open Space Plan for the County of London.

Frederick Law Olmsted gave momentum to this idea with his proposal for a park systems in Boston - the famous Emerald Necklace. Residential squares were also made in Britain and their planning developed into the idea of incorporating public open space ( public parks within towns). The first space of this type was the Place des Vosges. In North Europe this developed into the idea that residential squares should planned around green spaces.

5.3 Use of other technologies in contextĪlberti wrote on the need for town squares for markets and specific implementations to make most use of the space.

As an example, the damage caused by unplanned mineral extraction was one of the early reasons for a public demand for landscape planning. Landscape planners may work on projects which are of broad geographical scope, concern many land uses or many clients or are implemented over a long period of time. Landscape planners analyze broad issues as well as project characteristics which constrain design projects. Landscape designers tend to work for clients who wish to commission construction work. Park systems and greenways of the type designed by Frederick Law Olmsted are key examples of landscape planning. According to Erv Zube (1931–2002) landscape planning is defined as an activity concerned with developing landscaping amongst competing land uses while protecting natural processes and significant cultural and natural resources. Landscape planning is a branch of landscape architecture. ( January 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.

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