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This paper summary paper discusses the following subtopics practical applications, urban
conservation, messy ecosystem, design in science, landscape and urban planning, planning and
design of ecological networks in urban areas, and reflection of landscape architecture in the 21st
century.
Practical application
A myriad complex and seemingly decisions that are of related occurs in the planning of
land use and professions of the landscape architecture. The variety of the factors are considered
simultaneously during the analysis of the project phase are social, legal, topographic,
demography, microclimate and other specific site information. In this section, the schematic or
the hypothetical applications and actual case, in brief, are presented. Also, there explains how
landscape architects and planners of the land use can incorporate the landscape ecological
principles in their work. Also, the types of the projects and scale ranges are illustrated (Andre
Viljoen, 2014).
A prototypical type of the landscape with the mix of suburban, forested area and
agriculture is used in this section. Elements of landscape ecology like stream corridors, roads,
corridors for wildlife movement, habitat patches, boundaries, natural edges, power line and the
edge is illustrated. This type of the landscape that is heterogeneous and representation methods is
widespread in many parts of US, South American, Europe, and Russia. Development and the
changes that are induced by human are planned and occur frequently worldwide. This principle
applied r to agricultural suburban and forested area are as valid as in desert, coastal, and
mountainous areas. Land planners and designers have incorporated changes in nature which is

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generalizable and what matters are the consequences of the design or the change (Annemarie
van Paassen, 2013).
Six schematic applications that illustrate ecological principles are:
 Regional or micro scale: a regional park of wildlife conservation and a new project of
suburban development
 Landscape or mesoscale: an urban park and a new road
 A site of micro scale: a corridor of wildlife movement and cluster of the backyard garden
Other disciplines are absorbing the landscape ecology principles and this is an opportunity to
landscape architecture and land planners to capture the principles and grab the future. Some view
land as the source of wealth, an investment, a living system of dynamic, a habitat containing
animals and plants and a site of culture, history aesthetics and inspirations (Architects, 2016).
Urban conservation: green, sociable and affordable
Our ways of the metropolitan can hold back or advance national and regional goals for
a sustainable world. It is appropriate that landscape ecologists are turning their attention to issues
of management and design of suburban and urban areas. All neighborhood and communities
were infused with regulations made by banking standard and municipal law that incorporate
fashions and ideas that are accepted worldly to create the escalating regulatory climate.
Professional that are concerned with building cities have started to consider how to improve the
environment through the methods of alternative building (Bank, 2011). To conserve the urban
and enhance the green economy the following areas must be put into consideration:
Density: when considering the possibility of property building, the developers and landscape
ecologists made the decision on density. municipal regulations for the developer is to determine
the cast in terms of dwelling unit per acre, for packing areas, water supply, street width and
management of wastes that all depends on the density. Hence concentration on the population

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create possibilities of long-term in the city for forests, meadow, lake preservers and wetlands that
are important for resource management, environmental restoration and preservation of species
(Bojie Fu, 2014).
The automobile: the automobile dominates the metropolis environment like the highway, the
network of street, roads, if the developer fits the auto network effectively, all utilities like gas,
telephone, electricity, water, sewages van be tailored to fit. it the attention that through scattering
jobs, houses, and locations of retail will reduce the congestion and traffic jams in the urban also
ecologists wishes to create space for the green storm, retention of water, wildlife corridor and
purification of runoff. These regulations and street fashions gave effect on the socioeconomic
pattern on metropolis (Daniel Czechowski, 2016).
Community: this is how people relate to their surroundings. The developer should build a
multifamily housing provide the opportunities for the community. Other factors that should be
considered are shared opportunities and public attitudes, landscape ecology and new urbanism,
problems of politics and opportunities for convergence between the landscape ecology and
development (Engineers, 2010)
Messy ecosystem, orderly frames
Ecological functions, cultural perception
Ecological quality looks messy and possesses problems for those who imagined and
established new landscapes to enhance the quality of the landscape. Designers may be
submissive that nature will speak for itself. Some might see culture as the barrier that is not
necessary between the science and public attitude that are increasingly green. When talking
about the landscape, and changes that take place in it and how to improve them, fear, rejection