The Economics of Sustainable Landscape Architecture: Doing Less, Delivering More
Sustainability is often framed as an added cost. An environmental conscience that developers must accommodate. But when sustainability is embedded through landscape thinking from the very start, it doesn’t have to be. The key lies in working with the site, not against it, and realising that the most sustainable solution is often the simplest one.
What Does Landscape-Led Actually Mean?
A genuinely landscape-led scheme doesn’t simply include landscape; it is defined by it. If we’re serious about climate resilience, ecological recovery and quality of place, we must reclaim the term and use it as the organising principle of development, not a decorative afterthought.