What do landscape architects do?

The general public is impacted every day by the work of landscape architects. As a result, the potential for harm from bad landscape architecture design and planning is clear. Poor design can lead to injury or death of users of the land and cause grave economic damages to the land owners. Landscape architects design the built environment of parks, neighborhoods, and cities while also protecting and managing the natural environment, from its forests and fields to rivers and coasts. Members of the profession apply their special knowledge of sociological and cultural influences to improve the quality of life through the best design of places for people and other living things. The attractiveness of parks, transportation systems and corridors, housing developments, urban plazas, zoos and campuses reflects the skill of landscape architects in planning and designing the construction of useful and pleasing projects. They also design playgrounds, parks, stormwater drainage systems, wetlands, ...  more