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Downing, the landscape architecture designer, urged his readers in his 1841 "Treatise on the Theory" and "Practice of Landscape Gardening,"" to improve their yards not just for the sake of their own uplift and enjoyment, but in the interest of the greater good because one person's environmentally sensitive efforts would become the model for their neighbors. This is why Kolbert's goal is to achieve a beautiful natural landscape by planting the native grasses and not mow, but to let their lawns revert to meadows, wildflowers or vegetables gardens. Although this will take time to grow, grouping trees in clusters and mixing varieties of forms and colors will further awaken the curiosity of people to cultivate their own native grasses and plants. She also wants people not to use chemicals on their lawns but to let them grow naturally, for the betterment of the people's health.
In contrast, Kunstler claims that we are losing both our agricultural culture and of building structures well, which will affect the future generations because they will not get a chance to experience what it is like to live in a human habitat of quality. This is why when developing the suburbs; Kunstler wants a sustainable economy in a proper physical setting. This calls for decentralization of the regional economy, such as localized farming with value-added products. Moreover, he argues that we should view every element in the landscape in terms of relationships between things, not as mere objects in space, and to pay attention to patterns. .
He observes that when you step back from the individual buildings and look at the organization of towns and cities, things start to look really grim. Here Kunstler's has a good point. Throughout most of America, the landscape is zoned into residential and commercial districts, which are separated by long stretches of four-lane roads. We need to base all patterns on deeply felt psychological needs such as sunlight, greenery, connectedness to others and solitude.