LA+ Environment

The idea of “environment” is foundational to landscape architecture – as backdrop, as surround, as something to help save.

But what is the environment, or an environment? First and foremost, it is a word that is so pervasive—and its meaning taken for granted—that it is easily forgotten how recently the term has proliferated, particularly as a qualifier for myriad disciplines, institutions, and activities: environmental history, environmental studies, environmental science, environmental just...