Students who complete the course will have the ability to: 

Define a set of concepts, principles, techniques, and physical 
features that constitutes a basic vocabulary for environmental 
planning and design. 

Identify significant movements and prominent persons in the 
history of the built environment and in the development of the 
professions of architecture, landscape architecture, and city 
planning. 

Describe, analyze, and compare various historic styles and 
periods of environmental planning and design. 

Identify and describe the environmental, social, cultural, and 
economic conditions that shaped various historic styles and 
periods of environmental planning and design. 

Analyze and critique the visual and spatial qualities of 
exemplary works of environmental design through writing and 
simple diagramming. 

Infer and interpret how human history and cultural traditions 
shape present-day built environments and contemporary 
environmental design practices.

•Introduction.

•Landscapes of Prehistoric and Ancient Peoples. 

•Landscape Design in the Classical World: Ancient Greece and 
Rome.

•Environmental Design in the Islamic World.

•Urban Form and Gardens in Medieval Christian Europe. 

•Renaissance Landscape and Urban Design in Italy and France. 

•Baroque Landscape and Urban Design in France and Beyond. 

•Environmental Design Traditions in China and Japan. 

•Pre-Columbian Environmental Design in the Americas. 

•The Development of the English Landscape Garden. 

•Landscape Planning and Design in Colonial North America. 

•19th-century Urban Landscapes and the Development of Landscape 
Architecture: Cemeteries, Suburbs, Parks, and Parkways. 

•Early 20th-century Environmental Design: The City Beautiful 
Movement, National Parks, the “Prairie Style,” and Estate 
Gardens. 

•Modernism and City Planning: Garden Cities Movement, Le 
Corbusier, Regional Planning Association of America. 

•Modernist Garden Design in Europe and America. 

•Post-modern Landscape Design.