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A Reflection on Contemporary Landscape Design Theory through a Comparison with Planning Theory

This paper provides an overview of the landscape architectural theory last few decades through a comparison with planning theory. Last few decades, theoretical endeavors based on human sciences have been emerged along with science-based researches in landscape architectural academia. Theoretical perspectives have been adapted from human sciences such as semiotics, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstructionism etc. On the other hand, Neo-Marxist theory, critical theory, and communication theory have provided the guiding framework for planning theory. For a close comparison, communication issues have been discussed in detail. Rhetorical strategies in both areas have been mattered in different context. In the field of planning, communication skills and the authorship of planning reports have been emphasized and the ways of drawing has been scrutinized in landscape architecture. The third section briefly describes that each field's theoreticians can learn from each other. Landscape theory can be grounded upon social theory to reveal its political context. The paper concludes with some comments about the prospects from other field in constructing theory.