Environmentaly productive and socially seductive landscape
When considering landscape architecture projects as preferably mostly projects for society we need to define social needs, approaches and demands regarding what society wants and requires from their environment. Global climate change, natural catastrophes, bad global environmental state, vacant lots, revitalization of degraded lands, over exploitation of natural resources and recycling, sustainability, deurbanization and suburbanization are mostly the major issues todays landscape architects and planners are dealing with. All of them indirectly and directly connected to society or somehow have an impact on the quality of their environment. That's why it is necessary when planning the landscape to have in mind what society wants and not just what it is necessary for revitalizing the degraded site. We cannot ignore the needs of modern societies. People appreciate technology and when considering landscape we appreciate the wildness of the real nature, but also on our escapes to ''natural places'' we also seek to be close to the needed technology and urban features. Thats way socially seductive landscape is a landscape that resolves environmental problems which also have a huge impact on the wellbeing of the society. For landscape to be socially seductive, society needs to find some benefits in it. We cannot advocate nature without the human impact, because todays society is based on the necessity of the intersection between natural and urban systems.As stated in the article ''Big Nature'' by Jane Amidon environment has become a social enterprise and society an environmental enterprise and that is why the plans which can me implemented in real-time situation need to have an strong background and a high level of a participation of a society. Socially seductive landscapes do not just have a aesthetic value nor are they just visually seductive. They have the power of linking people, linking areas and have the power of increasing sustainability. Socially seductive landscapes are landscapes which offer a wider range of possibilities how to plan a contemporary landscape with the integration and respectful attitude towards the unpredictable dynamics of the nature and changing needs of society.
