The systematic organization of outdoor space in time begins at the Stone Age when primitive man first contributes the first conscious planting, evolving the nature of societies from hunting to farming..

The outdoor space of the first cultures are closely related to the everyday lives of citizens and established in accordance with the social, ceremonial and ethical codes governing each culture, depending on climatic and topographic conditions of the area. Henceforth permanent societies develop new relationships with the natural environment, protecting it and preserving it, to create the first parks. The evolution of public life comes into contradistinction with social private activity, creating new collective religious buildings with the corresponding outdoor spaces they surround.

The difference observed in the past to Renaissance and later Baroque, lies in the new way of perception of space. Nature is comprehended through the science of mathematics subjected by the new rules of perspective, while the outdoor space is treated as a whole and redesigned as an active part of property. On the contrary romanticism redefines the relationship of humans with the natural environment and seeks harmony through a variety of forms.

The urban outdoor spaces are being treated up to the period of modern movement as «negative» spaces of the built environment. The comprehension of urban landscape, introduced at the same time, describes the image of the city, all of which make the space, structured or not. Knowledge of the past is rejected by the designers of the 20th century, who understand the outdoors as "positive" and redefine focusing on shape, form and function..