This course attempts to integrate the concept of landscape within the built environment. While it distinguishes between nature and artifice (something created from human labour) it recognises that the earth is now both commodified and urbanised, and that concepts of landscape must accept this fact. Therefore a fundamental knowledge of the relationship between development impacts and environmental sustainability is critical to an understanding of contemporary urbanisation. The course therefore explores the urban landscape in terms of historical, modernist and post modernist ideas, showing how theoretical constructs within the discipline have changed with the changing landscapes of production and consumption which now characterise the modern city.