As I've been looking to learn about Landscape Urbanism, one of the things which has struck me is the generally poor quality of its writing. It seems to me that one of the signs of intellectual weakness in LU is that its language is opaque, turgid and pseudo-intellectual. NU, by contrast, is generally simple, direct, clear. Even if one disagrees with NU — and it's fair that some assert that there is plenty to disagree with — the issues are easily understood. I think that differing use of language offers an extremely telling comparison and to LU's detriment.
So I am going to try to somewhat formally compare Use of language in Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism. I would like to illustrate the differences. I've never done anything like this before so I'll have to develop a somewhat formal checklist of characteristics.