Landscape architects practice design at many levels, from residential gardens to large botanic gardens and arboreta, from small commercial sites to large mixed-use community complexes and from neighborhood park design to regional scale, open space planning. Landscape architects restore and heal, working to regenerate and foster positive landscape change, restoring older established communities, urban riparian corridors and historic landscapes. Some also work with caregivers in the design of therapeutic landscapes for health and education facilities.

Many specializations are possible: golf course design, stormwater design and management, landscape preservation, community design, eco-resort design, national and international land planning, habitat preservation and restoration, urban design, landscape interpretation and cultural preservation, campus design, garden design, zoo design, landscape art and computer assisted landscape modeling and visualization.

The landscape architect's unique expertise lies in the development of a systematic and analytical approach to solving land-use problems. Wherever people and landscape interface, landscape architects practice and wherever landscape architects practice they are engaged in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural efforts to create “place” and preserve the integrity of the landscape.

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