This was a very interesting article. However, a great flaw was the lack of attention to the role landscape architects can and should play on the public sector side of our environment. As the infrastructure throughout our nation starts to show its age, the opportunities for redesigning and remaking our world to better respect our dwindling resources is a critical role that landscape architects can take. Those in public practice have the opportunity to affect public knowledge and policies that control the built environment. This role is regularly overlooked. Although several of those interviewed mentioned that they worked with public entities, there was no conversation with those entities. As resources become scarcer, it will be important to have landscape architects in public practice to set the framework and help bridge the natural and social sciences, and manipulate the built environment to better reflect the needs of our citizens and the environment.

Lynn Crump, CLA, ASLA
Environmental Programs Planner
V.A. Dept. of Conservation & Recreation
Richmond, Va.

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