Sustainable Communities and Landscape Architecture

Abstract

The need of sustainable communities is high also due to an enhancing population growth rate that contributes on its turn to world natural physical and biological resource exhaustion. The thought of increasing the living standards gained a fast critical dimension in last 50 years. However, it is basically important to think about the way the future generation life should be affected by what we are currently doing. It became more and more obvious that mankind cannot go further on with the old already expired developing models because, under present conditions, during the following one hundred years, the exhaustion of natural resources should occur. At the same time, the damaging effects of human activities on the environment are increasing as a consequence of in time gathering of polluting emissions and severe accidents. The main issue is the human being adapting capability with its limits and its latent possibilities, reaching the conclusion of existing some limits specific to human species, determining the corrective responsibility regarding directing of the technological development so that to be in compliance with human well being and survival. In order to particularly improve the dwelling environment and generally surrounding environment, in last decades, it is advocating for a close multi-disciplinary cooperation and for an active involvement of town planners by specific contributions.