Landscape Architecture
& Environmental Planning

The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning offers an educational experience that integrates the art of creating landscapes with knowledge of the natural sciences and with the knowledge of values. “Environment” is understood broadly. It includes the concern for ecology, land, water and air. Just as importantly, it includes the concern for the design of places that are artful and uplifting, for the dynamics of social groups in the urban landscape and for rules that guide the encroachment on habitats and scenic beauty in nature.