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Definition: Landscaping |
LandscapingNoun1. Working as a landscape gardner. 2. A garden laid out for esthetic effect; "they spent a great deal of money on the landscaping". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "landscaping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | The planning and management of landscapes created by human activities. Source: European Union. (references) |
Energy | Features and vegetation on the outside of or surrounding a building for aesthetics and energy conservation. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Landscape architecture is the art, planning, design, management, preservation and rehabilitation of the land. The scope of the profession includes site planning, garden design, environmental restoration, town or urban planning, park and recreation planning, regional planning, and historic preservation.Activities of a landscape architect can range from the creation of public parks and parkways to the site planning for corporate office buildings, from the design of residential gardens to the management of large wilderness areas or reclamation of degraded landscapes such as mines or landfills.
Landscape architects work on all types of external space - large or small, urban or rural, and with 'hard' or 'soft' materials. They work on:
The most valuable contribution is often made at the earliest stage of a project in generating ideas and bringing flair and creativity to the use of space. The landscape professional can contribute to the overall concept and prepare an initial master plan, from which detailed designs can subsequently be prepared. He or she can also let and supervise contracts for landscape work, prepare landscape and visual impact assessments, conduct environmental assessments or audits and act as an expert witness at enquiries on land use. He or she can also support or prepare applications for capital or revenue funding grants.
- The form, scale and siting of new developments
- Small private gardens and private estates
- The space around schools, universities, hospitals and hotels
- Public parks, golf courses, theme parks and sports facilities
- Housing areas, industrial parks and commercial developments
- Highways and transport corridors
- Town and city squares and pedestrian schemes
- Large or small urban regeneration schemes
- Forest, tourist or historic landscapes and landscape appraisal or conservation studies
- Reservoirs, power stations, extractive industry applications or major industrial projects
- Environmental assessment, planning advice and land management proposals.
Landscape designers are involved in the planning, design and creation of all types of outdoor spaces. Many work in public offices in central and local government. Others work in private practice and act as consultants to public authorities, industry and commerce, and to private individuals.
Landscape managers use their knowledge of plants and the natural environment to advise on the long-term care and development of the landscape. They work in horticulture, estate management, forestry, nature conservation and agriculture.
Landscape scientists have specialist skills such as soil science, hydrology, geomorphology or botany that they relate to the practical problems of landscape work. Their projects can range from site surveys to the ecological assessment of broad areas for planning or management purposes. They may also report on the impact of development or the importance of particular species in a given area.
Landscape planners are concerned with the location, scenic, ecological and recreational aspects of urban, rural and coastal land use. Their work is embodied in written statements of policy and strategy, and their remit includes masterplanning for new developments, landscape evaluations and assessments, and preparing countryside management or policy plans. Some may also apply an additional specialism such as landscape archaeology or law to the process of landscape planning.
Entrance into the profession requires advanced education, training, licensure in all but five states.
See ASLA or Landscape Institute for a more thorough examination of the topic.
See also:
- List of landscape architects
- Schools of landscape architecture
- Energy-efficient landscaping
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Landscape architecture."
Synonym: LandscapingSynonym: landscape gardening (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Beautifying; landscaping, landscape gardening; decoration; calisthenics. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Landscaping |
| Specialty definitions using "landscaping": engineering technician, parking ♦ LABORER, LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPE CONTRACTOR, landscaper ♦ MANAGER, APARTMENT HOUSE, MANAGER, CEMETERY, MANAGER, GUN CLUB, manager, range ♦ PARKING ANALYST ♦ range master ♦ superintendent, cemetery ♦ traffic calming ♦ xeriscaping. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a metaphor used by gardeners and landscaping people in general (North; writing credit: Alan Zweibel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Zen and the Art of Landscaping (2000) Landscaping (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Chelsea Cochrane, NRCS, discusses the landscaping plan for a community garden in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, CA. [Slide 97CS2983]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Cheryl Whalen, NRCS, discusses the landscaping plan for a community garden in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, CA. Alice Young, NRCS, and Al Renmer are in the background. [Slide 97CS2984]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
 | Teacherage, community, and school buildings before landscaping. Flint River Farms, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Yard clutter" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "Some old weights. They have actually become part of my landscaping." | "Miniature Paradise 1" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Hyatt Regency's landscaping, downtown S.D." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Landscaping; gardening; yard; yard work; . | | Landscaping; buzz; high-pitched; whirl; lawn; backyard; garden; grass; grassland; grassplot; yard. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Persons who work or play in their yard, participate in recreational activities away from home such as hiking, camping, fishing and hunting, or engage in outdoor occupations, such as landscaping, brush clearing, forestry, and wildlife and parks management in endemic areas may also be at risk of getting Lyme disease. (references) | |
Business | In Japan, clear demarcation between gardening and landscaping has not yet been established. (references) | |
In addition, specialty architectural design areas, including interior design and landscaping design have not yet been contracted out independently by GOJ entities. (references) | ||
In order to undertake consulting work (e.g., landscaping or specialty consulting) as an "advisor" or a subcontractor to a firm licensed in Japan, licenses are not required. (references) | ||
Economic History | France | The only sectors experiencing some growth are winemaking, landscaping, and forestry equipment. (references) |
Bahrain | The second phase will be concerned with infrastructure development such as access roads and causeways, bridges, drainage network, telecommunication installation, street lighting, water distribution installation, electrical distribution, landscaping and irrigation. (references) | |
Japan | Japan's construction market is second largest in the world, although Japan's construction investment is expected to decrease in JFY 2001. American architectural design firms, civil-engineering consulting firms, general contractors, specialty consulting firms (e.g., airports, hospitals, facilities for elderly citizens, landscaping, and interior design) and environmental engineering firms have ample opportunity to demonstrate their expertise in the Japanese market. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Landscaping" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 52.50% of the time. "Landscaping" is used about 80 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 52.5% | 42 | 52,864 |
| Noun (singular) | 30% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.5% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 80 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "landscaping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 环境美化 (landscaped). (various references) | |
Danish | landskabspleje (land topography, landscape management, landscape planning, landscape preservation, landscape protection, relief, site preservation), landskabsplanlægning (landscape management, landscape planning), landskabsbygning (landscape management, landscape planning), landskabsarkitektur (landscape architecture, landscape design, landscape management, landscape planning). (various references) | |
Dutch | landschapsbouw (landscape management, landscape planning), landschapsarchitectuur (landscape architecture, landscape design, landscape management, landscape planning), ordening van het landschap (landscape management, landscape planning). (various references) | |
French | architecture paysagiste (landscape architecture, landscape design), architecture paysagère (landscape architecture, landscape design), architecture de paysage (landscape architecture, landscape design), aménagement des sites (landscape management, landscape planning), aménagement des paysages (landscape management, landscape planning). (various references) | |
German | Landschaftsplanung (landscape management, landscape planning), Landschaftspflege (landscape care, landscape management, landscape planning, landscape preservation, landscape protection, site preservation), Landschaftsordnung (landscape management, landscape planning), Landschaftsgestaltung (landscape architecture, landscape design, landscape management, landscape planning), Landschaftsbau (landscape architecture, landscape design), Landschaftsarchitektur (landscape architecture, landscape design). (various references) | |
Greek | αρχιτεκτονική τοπίου (landscape architecture, landscape design), τοπιακή αρχιτεκτονική (landscape architecture, landscape design). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tereprendezés, parkosítás. (various references) | |
Italian | sistemazione del paesaggio (landscape management, landscape planning), assetto del paesaggio (landscape management, landscape planning), architettura paesistica (landscape architecture, landscape design), architettura paesaggistica (landscape architecture, landscape design), architettura del paesaggio (landscape architecture, landscape design). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 装束 (costume, furniture, interior decoration, personal appearance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうぞく (costume, furniture, inheritance, interior decoration, one's family or clan, personal appearance, priests and laymen, succession), しょうぞく (costume, furniture, interior decoration, personal appearance). (various references) | |
Korean | 정원사 노릇을 함. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andscapinglay.(various references) | |
Spanish | ordenación paisajística (landscape management, landscape planning), arquitectura paisajística (landscape architecture, landscape design). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "landscaping": relandscaping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "landscaping" (pronounced la"ndskā'ping or la"nskā'ping) |
| 4 | -ā' p i ng | videotaping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
| 4 | -ā' p i ng | videotaping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, chopping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, copping, cramping, creeping, crimping, cropping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dropping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, flopping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, hopping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, lapping, leaping, limping, lopping, lumping, mapping, moping, mopping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, popping, prepping, propping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, shopping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, sopping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, stopping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, swapping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, topping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, walloping, Wapping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, whopping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-g-i-l-n-n-p-s" | |
-1 letter: scandaling. | |
-2 letters: sandaling. | |
-3 letters: canaling, candling, capsidal, clasping, landings, paladins, sandling, scalding, scalping. | |
-4 letters: agnails, alanins, anginal, anginas, apicals, apsidal, caplins, dancing, inclasp, inlands, lacings, ladings, lancing, landing, lapsing, ligands, linsang, padnags, paginal, paladin, palings, pandani, pinangs, placing, planing, salpian, sanding, sapling, scaling, scandal, scandia, scaping, spacial, spacing, spading. | |
-5 letters: agnail, alands, alanin, alcids, algins. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-g-i-l-n-n-p-s" | |
+2 letters: relandscaping. | |
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