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Landscape is rooted in an association between people and place.It is scene of life, cultivated construction, carrier of meaning.Landscapes speak.They disclose their origins.They assert identity and proclaim the beliefs of those who made them.They affirm and refute ideas.They allude to art and literature.Each rock, each river, each tree has its own history.The stories humans tell go further.They have a deliberate narrative: stories of survival, identity, power, and prayer.Landscape narratives are a way of organizing reality, justifying actions, instructing, persuading, even forcing, people to perform in particular ways.Like verbal literacy, landscape literacy entails both understanding the world and transforming it.To design wisely is to read ongoing dialogues in a place, to distinguish enduring stories from ephemeral ones, and to imagine how to join the conversation.To be literate in landscape is to recognize both the problems in a place and its resources, to understand how they came about, by what means they are sustained, and how they are related.Such literacy must be a prerequisite for urban planning and design.