Opportunities for design approaches in landscape planning

The findings indicate that the distinction between the terms landscape architecture, design and planning are increasingly blurred. However, different contexts and tasks as well as the dominance of specific characteristics of values, methods and processes in the two cultures are obvious. Different tasks and application contexts apparently lead to different planning and design cultures. Nevertheless, within the planning context we can identify design opportunities that have the characteristics of a design situation. These design situations could be the starting point for using design approaches in planning more systematically. The expected added value of integrating design culture into planning may be improved communication and understanding of the fundamental planning objectives. Whether these expectations will be fulfilled must be pursued in future research.