Landscape Architecture Frontiers 48
Subtitle: Human Desires, Social Demands, and Landscape Future
Publisher: Antique Collectors' Club
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781954081406
Subjects: Architecture
Description: Design is a means to satisfy social demands, and such demands come from human desires. Only when individuals’ desires fuse and grow into a collective consensus, can they be manifested and conveyed in various landscape forms as new public goods. As a public goods serving human desires and social demands, landscape design faces both challenges and opportunities preceding undergoing public crises. In this issue, LA Frontiers explores the implications of human desires on public behaviors through cross-disciplinary lenses of philosophy, social psychology, cognitive science, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, history, etc. It would offer inspiring insights for landscape professionals to identity their role in responding to contemporary demands and those of future societies.