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Design is a Verb; Design is a Noun

Carl Steinitz
Landscape Journal, September 1995, 14 (2) 188-200; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.14.2.188
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Abstract

The word “design” is both a verb and a noun. This paper presents a framework for thinking about design as a noun and relates it to a previously published paper (Steinitz 1990) which presented a framework for design as a verb. If uself, these frameworks might enable landscape design (defined broadly) to engage more clearly the social constructs within which it takes place.

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