landscape- or landscaping?

In thinking about landscapes in the 21st century, my mind kept wandering back to how the world is becoming increasingly developed with more and more cities and seemingly ceaseless construction of new and better buildings. With this in mind, it seems that we have stopped to work around nature and rather made nature work around us. Instead of conforming to nature, we have made nature conform to us. In the construction of a college campus, the layout of a city, or the placement of private houses, the buildings come first and then trees, bushes, flowers, and grass are placed strategically around them. It is interesting that this process is called "landscaping." In the 21st century, we have turned the word "landscape" from a noun into a verb, something we make, rather than something that is. Granted there is beautiful nature in this earth that remains untouched by humans, but on the whole this switch from landscape to landscaping is defining the 21st century.

In contrasting landscapes with earthworks a landscape is generally seen as natural and not manipulated, whereas an earthwork is by nature unnatural to a degree because something within nature has been manipulated. My landscape picture differs from our earthwork project because I used nature to manipulate a cityscape rather than bringing parts of civilization into nature or simply manipulate things within nature. Also, by nature of its name, a landscape typically includes both some sort of land or nature and some sort of sky. An earthwork, by contrast, does not need to include the sky.