Evidence-based landscape architecture: The maturing of a profession Academic Article

abstract

• Professions tend to change over time, typically becoming more scholarly as information is generated and incorporated into practice. Medicine has made the transition to a scholarly profession over the past hundred years or so and has recently embraced the concept of evidence-based medicine. Landscape architecture is poised to become a more scholarly profession and this essay proposes that it become a discipline of evidence-based landscape architecture. Actions for everyone from professors and administrators to practicing professionals are suggested to meet the goal of a more scholarly, relevant profession. The risk of ignoring the trend of evidence as a basis for practice is described in terms of the divergence among historical medical disciplines. 2011 Elsevier B.V.

authors

• Brown, Robert

published proceedings

• LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

altmetric score

• 2.7

author list (cited authors)

• Brown, R. D., & Corry, R. C.

citation count

• 59

complete list of authors

• Brown, Robert D||Corry, Robert C

publication date

• April 2011

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Landscape and Urban Planning  Journal

keywords

• Discipline
• Profession
• Research
• Scholarship

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.01.017

start page

• 327

end page

• 329

volume

• 100

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.01.017