The purpose of this article is to clarify the historical change of the issue in landscape researches. We did the review of landscape researches from 1960 to 1998 and showed the classified figure by the purpose. Using these data as a basis, it attempts to grasp their trends and show a perspective for the coming studies. Conclusions are as below: 1. The landscape Concept has been originated in the dichotomies such as Development and protection in the city planning. 2. The problems of studies deal with the text and institution for landscape are grasped. 3. To create the relationship between residents and designer alternation, we suggested about the need of theory integrates landscape with citizen participation.