Gardens, parks and spaces on the landscape in Australia sometimes synchronize with the architecture, speaking for past eras and invoking cultural identity and grace to landscape as perceived by future generations. Additional development can be questionable as this synchronicity is then thrown out. Adjustments to density can look very jarring. A sense of freedom and space is lost.
Trees among the casualties of this. A tree stump in the suburbs and urban environment is a very sad sight. As is the uprooting of nature and covering over of earth for roads and surface paving.
How the earth manages to breath when 70% is covered over as in some metro areas, is a question. People must consider this and try to leave maximum uncovered earth for potential plant life habitat. Do drives have to be sealed? Or areas cemented and paved around the buildings and houses?
Domestic post modernist architecture
Door design circa 2009