Landscaping to Meet Social and Cultural Needs

Thinking that planting can beautify and improve the built environment is narrowing the meaning of the term landscape - so believes Kamariyah Kamsah, a retired landscape architecture lecturer and member of Badan Warisan Malaysia.She advocates the term landscape as the physical outdoor environment that all of us use in our daily activities, rather than just the act of beautifying the environment by planting trees and ornamental plants. In the bigger scheme of things, beyond its visual beauty, find out how everyday landscape has the potential to serve environmental, social and cultural functions.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.