The Social Principles Of Practice In Landscape Architecture

The ultimate purpose of the landscape was made for people and a better quality of people’s life. As like as other construction activities, its permanent value is to maximize public interests and social benefit. It decides that the practice of landscape architecture itself is inseparable from the social interaction. As the development of society, landscape architecture develops, and also becomes the driving force for social improvement and urban renewal. The policy of landscape architecture plays the role of guidance, distribution and mediation to the society. All aspects of society restrict or inspire the practice in landscape architecture, while the practice in landscape architecture produces different levels of interaction with social development. Understanding their relations does contribute to the landscape more effectively helping the environmental, economic, social, human beings. Which the most critical step is to fundamentally improve people’s positive social contribution, rebuild the structure of social relations, and play the area’s largest social performance, in order to maintain long-term planning and construction achievements, promote the sustainable development of society.But in the change of the social development, practice in landscape architecture faces many problems. The overall institutional environment can not protect the practice to play its proper social function. The values of the government and the planning department favor of economic efficiency; Landscape Architects immersed in the aesthetic world of their own industry, while ignoring the needs of the community and the public; Public participation, is still far from reach. Practice in Landscape architecture is contained by such problems that it can not completely fulfill its social responsibilities. The analysis of the reasons why the social role of landscape architecture is weakening, is the basis of exploring the sociological methodology applicable to the practice of landscape architecture, which makes the process and results of practice adapt to social development, and play a social efficiency more entirely.The establishment of the sociological methodology of the practice in landscape architecture, plays an obvious orientation of modern urban construction, will also be likely to become the theoretical basis of the landscape architecture practice.