'Landscape' today is increasingly being seen as a complex system: biotopes and water cycles, open spaces and built structures,
neighborhoods and commercial areas - all are components of this system, which is therefore subject to a broad array of influences. Aided by international discussions within the profession, this view of landscape as the common interface between social, cultural, economic, and other processes is giving rise to new strategies for working with ecosystems.
This book analyzes and documents the international development and its significance for landscape architects but also for regional development, city planning, and architecture. With numerous current planning projects and essays by renowned authors (including Wolfgang Haber, Claus Käpplinger, and Andreas Rossmann), this attractive book
presents the strategies the profession is using to meet these new challenges. For the first time, two other important awards are
presented alongside the results of the German Landscape Architecture Award: the celebrated international Peter Joseph Lenné Award of the State of Berlin and the special Garden Award, which is jointly bestowed by the bdla and the journal Häuser.