Because landscape planning has been important part of landscape architecture from the beginning days of the profession. Some of the earliest landscape planners worked in the Olmsted office, and the first city planners were architects (e.g., Daniel Burnham) and landscape architects (e.g., F.L. Olmsted, Jr. and John Nolen). Another reason for the landscape planning emphasis of this blog is that there are plenty of blogs that already address urban design and landscape design. Design will be discussed here too, but probably not in the same way.
The growing importance of landscape urbanism and related “urbanisms” suggests to me that landscape planning and/or ecological planning needs to be brought back into the professional conversation. Many of the underlying ideas I see presented in landscape urbanism proposals have connections to landscape planning.
Landscape planning – rooted in landscape architecture. Land use planning and environmental planning? Related, but not exactly the same. Disciplinary influences on what is now considered mainstream land use and environmental planning are primarily from social and natural sciences. More on landscape planning to come.
Praxis in Landscape Architecture 
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