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Aga Khan Trust for Culture - Sustainable Landscape Design in Arid Climates - A Symposium

According to Donlyn Lyndon, “sustainability” has become a “catch word of the times”.1 Echoing Lyndon, Mike Pease writes that it seems that the word is appearing “everywhere”. Certainly the landscape literature would lead one to this conclusion. Recent issues of such publications as Landscape Design, Places, and The Urban Ecologist have, for example, carried reports about the first meeting of the United Nations’ Sustainable Cities programme which included presentations from Senegal, Poland, China, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Chile; about “Green Korea”; a group working toward a sustainable Korean Peninsula; about the new Sustainable Development Centre in the United Kingdom; the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in the U.S.; and the World Congress of Architects’ “Declaration of Interdependence” calling for the profession’s dedication to achieving sustainable designs.