GC-007: Toward an Agroecological Perspective in Landscape Architecture

In 1852, 170 years ago, a 30-year-old gentleman farmer, Frederick Law Olmsted, published Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England, documenting a trip that eventually inspired his vision as a landscape architect. I believe that an agroecological perspective in landscape architecture could help meet human needs for provisioning ecosystem services – food, fuel, and fibre – while maintaining other services and even improving the experiential and aesthetic value provided by designed landscapes.