Landschapsplan Nederland2022

"You will find trees and shrubs everywhere in the Dutch landscape. Few people realize that together they are part of our greatest work of art. These planting patterns in the historically strongly layered Dutch landscape form one large cultural artifact. It was designed and constructed during the post-World War II reconstruction period. For about seventy percent of the Netherlands, a 'landscape plan' was designed by landscape architects of the State Forestry Commission between 1946 and 1976 as part of hundreds of land consolidation. When the trees of those landscape plans were planted, they were small and inconspicuous, but now they determine the image and appearance of the Dutch landscape. This resulted in a composite work of art that has been characterized as 'Landschapsplan Nederland' in...