A research towards sustainable development in landscape architecture

Rapid growing technology and the increased consumption habits of the populations have resulted in high production volume and increased urban development. The natural resources and raw materials have been heavily used and the environment has been severely destroyed. The disrupted ecologic balance has resulted in environmental problems. The scientists have discovered the threat over the humankind and future generations and have embraced a more environment friendly and sustainable approach. Therefore in the research, ecology, sustainability and sustainable landscape concepts have been explored; the sustainability criteria of architecture and landscape architecture have been compared and assessed. In the research, sustainable topography, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, air quality, reform and design phases, hydrology, soil, vegetation, human health and wellbeing have been analyzed. The table generated based on various investigations has been studied and the common parameters for both disciplines have been determined. The criteria needed for the creation of sustainable environments in architectural planning through the application of physical environmental control parameters have been studied. The study tables have indicated that it is critical for the physical environmental control parameters to provide responding solutions in the management of sustainability of the land, protection of hydrologic form and water efficiency, protection of the soil form, sustainable materials and resource use. It has also been determined that protection of the vegetation forms, ensuring human health and wellbeing and the promotion of the air quality can be achieved to a certain degree through the use of physical environmental control parameters.Key Words: Sustainable, landscape design, architectural design, physical environmental control elements, Leed, Asla.