Goodway Landscape

In Europe, the amount of landscape preparation can be described to the work of Vitruvius. In discoursing the designing of towns, he wrote on site planning with reference to microclimate, about the contriving of streets and about the role of metaphor in designing. Vitruvius' theories were animated during the renaissance and came to influence the contriving of towns throughout Europe and the Americas (Goodway Landscape).

Alberti wrote on the need for town lames for markets. In North Europe this acquired into the idea that residential squares should planned approximately green spaces (Goodway Landscape).

The 1st space of this type was the Place des Vosges. Residential squares were as well made in Britain and their planning developed into the idea of comprising public open space (public parks within towns. Frederick Law Olmsted gave impulse to this idea with his proposition for a park systems in Boston - the famous Emerald Necklace. Patrick Abercrombie absorbed this idea and contained it in his great 1943-4 Open Space Plan for the County of London (Jeff Zima).