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Front cover image:
Music composition monophony by Ying Li. 'My Loving Friend Jing Xin Zhai'.
This was my first musical composition for landscape architecture (on 23.06.2006) and Jingxin Zhai was an influence
on my joining the landscape profession and gave me the strength to carry on.
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We have our regular round up of calendar events, a new
section on websites that may attract your attention and a
couple of book reviews: landscape architecture in
contemporary China and a compare and contrast between
books on the economics of environmentalism.
We lead with an article that explores the inter- relationship
between music, emotion and space including an illustration
with the author’s own music composition.This is followed with
a very un-dusty reasoning for why we should value our record of
creative work and its importance in allowing us to build on this
output and learn. Related to this, the next author speaks of a
‘journey’ through the latter half of the twentieth century in our
landscape profession as it changed and developed rapidly. He
touches on the qualities and capabilities of the leaders during
that period with a message relevant to now. The next article on
extensive tree planting has huge relevance to current national
initiatives, but picks out an often overlooked consideration:
the role of freestanding trees and hedgerows and how we
should enable landowners. We round off with a pair of articles
that relate to landscape planning: within the context of
government proposals to reform the planning system, this is a
good time to reflect on the related successes of the past which
had an emphasis on physical plan making. The author thinks
the current proposals pose many fundamental unanswered
questions. This leads, finally, into an element of our analysis
of landscape with a separate supplement to follow shortly that
builds on our debate on guidelines for landscape and visual
impact. The debate arrived at a stalemate. Tom Robinson has
asked a number of planning barristers for their views on the
need for a 4th edition.
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