The article introduces a new method called landscape profiling to help urban planners assess how much human activity has changed a landscape. By looking at natural and man-made boundaries, the method can show where a landscape has been altered too much. This helps planners make better decisions about how to develop land in cities and suburbs. The method identifies three types of relationships between natural and man-made features: landscape convergence, landscape divergence, and zones of landscape disturbance. This tool can be used to spot inappropriate land development and improve the planning of urban areas.