Internationally speaking, this subject has a history of one hundred years, and it is a subject with great potential, because human activities and people's lifestyles, including various activities, are changing the natural situation, some of which are very positive and some are very negative. In fact, as long as people's activities, it will have a negative impact on the environment. The work of this subject is to minimize the negative impact on the environment and let people live in a very beautiful environment. Internationally, this subject is highly respected by people.
Due to historical reasons, the development of landscape architecture in the 1970s was seriously affected, and very few professionals in this field were trained, resulting in a huge talent gap. Since the end of 1970s, China has paid more and more attention to landscape planning, but few talents have been trained. China graduates less than 100 professionals every year, but now the economic development situation in China is very good, and the demand in this area will increase.
With the continuous improvement of people's quality of life and living standards, greening and ecological environment have become new pursuits. Not only do real estate development enterprises compete to play "green card", "landscape card" and "ecological environment card" in the market competition, but some enterprises and institutions also pay more and more attention to environmental landscape design, making it "harmonious with the urban environment and comfortable for employees and customers". Nowadays, the urbanization of the world and the rise of flower industry have promoted the development of landscape architecture. Landscape architecture is also a major to cultivate talents who can meet the requirements of future urban environment beautification and flower industry development. With the development of economy and the improvement of people's requirements for spiritual life, especially after China's entry into wto, there is an increasing demand for such talents. The society urgently needs a large number of excellent landscape professionals.
In modern times, due to the high degree of industrialization, modernization and rapid population growth, all countries in the world are facing a very serious problem: urban explosion, the destruction of natural environment and natural and artificial environment ecosystems. For the long-term health, happiness and happiness of all mankind, human beings must live in harmony with their living environment and make wise use of natural resources; In the future of human society, due to the rapid growth of population and the serious threat to the growing demand for natural resources, it is still necessary to keep the living environment from being destroyed and natural resources from being wasted in this grim situation. That requires a kind of special new knowledge, new technology and new experience closely related to the natural system, natural evolution process and the development of human society. This is the core of landscape architecture specialty-green biosystems engineering of urban environment and landscape art. Therefore, landscape architecture is still a hot specialty in the world today.
The main employment units of landscape architecture students after graduation are landscape architecture bureau, design institute, nursery, landscape design company, tourism planning and design company, scenic spot, real estate company, university teachers, and other related industries and institutions such as architecture and environmental engineering, municipal gardens, public utilities, urban and rural planning and construction management. Undergraduate graduates can also continue to study for master's degrees in landscape architecture, urban planning, environmental art and other majors.