The history of landscape design is connected with the history of gardening. Both arts are connected with the composition of planting, landform, water, paving and additional structures however:

• Garden design is fundamentally associated with enclosed confidential space such as parks, gardens and so on.
• Landscape design concerns the design of enclosed space, in addition to unenclosed space which is open to the community town squares, country parks, greenways and so forth.

Now, closer to the history of landscape design. The Romans undertook landscape structural design on a widespread scale, and Vitruvius wrote on lots of topics (e.g. the outline of towns) which still deals with landscape architects. The same as with the other arts, history of landscape design was not until the Renaissance, that garden design was invigorated, with wonderful examples counting the pleasure grounds at the Villa d’Este,Tivoli,Italy. The renaissance garden has been improving through the 16th and 17th centuries, reaching a final splendor in the work of André le Nôtre at Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles. more…

The breadth of the qualified task that landscape architects work together on is extremely wide and they have to consider landscaping history, other than some examples of project types comprise:

1. The setting up, shape, scale and sitting of new developments
2. Civil design as well as community infrastructure
3. University grounds and site design for institutions
4. Recreation facilities similar to golf, theme parks and sports equipment
5. Housing areas, manufacturing parks and profitable developments
6. Highways, transport structures, bridges, and transport corridors
7. city design, municipality and urban squares, waterfronts, walker schemes, and parking lots
8. big or little city regeneration schemes
9. woods, sightseer or historic landscapes, in addition to historic garden assessment and protection studies
10. Reservoirs, dams, power stations, repossession of extractive industry applications or main manufacturing projects
11. Ecological Design any form of design that makes smaller environmentally unhelpful impacts by integrating itself with normal processes.

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