The introduction to a book about the landscape and physical environment of our cities and regions today and tomorrow. The chapter looks at the emergence of green consciousness and considers how different professions understand and reason about landscape and the natural environment.
The book itself contains fifteen essays by leading thinkers and practitioners assembled into three sections ‘Learning from Thought’, ‘Learning from Place’ and ‘Learning from Action’ that in some way reflect the manner in which those who work with and intervene in the landscape go about their work.

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