BUILDING ONSHIFTING SANDS

摘要

JOHN WYER FSGD looks to the future, asking what it holds for garden designers, and why they should careHAVING READ the two recent articles in this journal about the future of gardens, it got me thinking about what is ahead for our industry. Setting aside what's for supper and plans for the weekend, for most of us, our plan for the future is to carry on doing what we do now, but perhaps a bit better and a bit more. But is that good enough? That was Blockbuster Video's plan.I am always suspicious when people say that we are living through a revolution -1 have been told that for most of my life. But there is no doubt that we are being buffeted by real winds of change, some of which will lead to permanent alterations in how we work. I think there are three main socio-economic changes that we face, along with a couple of further trends within our industry.