Reconciling
The last role for theory of in between I will describe is that of reconciling, "making consistent or compatible" or "joining evenly with another" (Webster's). This activity is located between landscape architecture design and socially constructed concept such as culture, nature, ecology, city, and the country. Landscape architectural theory is uniquely positioned to contain, inscribe, embed, and express within its spaces and forms a culture's complex and contradictory attitudes about the natural world. As most models of the natural world and human nature's place within it are based on an intersection of religious and scientific belief structures, built landscape - understood as expressing a culture's values with nature's materials - can communicate the tension between those intertwined strands of faith and reason, myth and fact.