An Advanced Landscape Design Studio project in 2001 focused on drive tourism and management of the Scenic Rim region of SE Queensland and Northern NSW. This project has demonstrated that the potential values of linking theories of landscape design and local economic development is not confined to the urban context and can also be applied to small community and rural situations.
The very diverse outcomes of this studio can be accessed at www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/scenicrim.

CONCLUSION

This paper has sought to illustrate that the vision of urban design conveyed in the Mant Report (1994) and that the urban design education strategies proposed by the BDP (1996) has serious limitations in the light of current needs of community, collaboration and sustainability. It has demonstrated the potential benefits to be gained from landscape design that creatively intersects with local economic/community based initiatives (Allison 2002 pers comm). The experiences gained from these studios have shown that the proposition for a design paradigm that closely links urban design and local economic development theory has a strong validity and that it offers an important potential to contribute to the greater realization of sustainability objectives. The growing body of literature across these two areas of discourse and our commitment to exploring this debate through design studios as a site for research will continue to enrich the discourse in this area by generating innovative speculative scenarios. The questions raised clearly show that advanced design studios can address “Design + Local Economic Development” = Sustainable Design Outcomes” as a substantial design paradigm. More importantly it is enriching practice with graduates capable of building on our hypotheticals in the real world of the profession of landscape architecture.

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www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/scenicrim has been constructed from student work of the Advanced Landscape Design 2 Studio, Semester 2, 2001, School of Design and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.