• We must educate our students to imagine, re-invent, renew, and reconsider how the public landscape is a part of our present and how it will continue to be a part of our future.
   
• The landscapes we create should be beautiful, ecologically constructive, socially vital, and built to endure.
   
• Through an understanding of aesthetic, ecological, and social variables, our graduates can remedy degraded landscapes, shape resilient ecosystems, and make cities compelling for all citizens.
   
• Ecological design and planning will have greatest impact in the urban landscape. “Green urbanism” can provide an alternative to the loss of agricultural and wild landscapes by creating evocative settings for everyday life.
   
• Every student is an individual rather than a product of an assembly-line education. Our programs should guide each student to develop a unique role in facilitating landscape change.
   
• Students should be exposed to passion and creativity. Their education should be grounded in hands-on field study as well as in theory, methods, and studio projects.
   
• Landscape architects and environmental planners must be “at the table” for both grassroots and high-level decisions on the landscape. By doing so, we will make possible innovative and inspirational places that enable a just democracy.
   
• Landscape craft must support our commitment to the collective public landscape.
   

Faculty of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
University of California, Berkeley
March 2007