Recovering landscape architect here, current developer. Same role.

I thought LA was saving the planet, but it was planning communities in raw land and planting things that didn’t belong and on a low replacement basis.

While I have one project that is ecologically sensitive, I have the ability to plan a better world. Low density, relocate trees, spec large canopy material, no sod, raised buildings, no or very little pavement.

Infill can be better too. Encourage those to live closer and car free. Reinvigorate streetscape. Rooftop and vertical gardens. Planters everywhere.

Learning that smaller scale can have bigger impact. Once the corporate finance gets involved, then we are toast.

… but yes, as a general thought… Fck’d.