Cultural Landscapes in an Uncertain Future

Cultural Landscapes in an Uncertain Future

How should we think about the dynamics of change? By Robert Z. Melnick, FASLA Although our attention to cultural landscapes has evolved, we often approach them in a way that is too narrow in scope, too tightly bound in our own silos, and too unwilling to change in response to shifting contexts, whether environmental, cultural, ethical, societal, or political. We need to go beyond what we have done in the past. I have worked in cultural landscape…