1988 — Errol Black, "The Fight Against Transit Cutbacks", City Magazine, Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 1988:
Another aspect of the towns we build today is the use of three types of building: the bungalow, the skyscraper and the landscraper (factory) spread out all over the landscape in loose functions of suburb, downtown and industrial zone.
1994 — Aaron Betsky, "The Pedagogy of Experimental Architecture", in LAX: The Los Angeles Experiment (ed. Mick McConnell), Lumen Press, →ISBN, page 4:
Liberated by this week-long exercise and further immersed in issues of technology by several SCI-Arc faculty visitors, the students were then asked by critic Hani Rashi to design a "landscraper."
1999 — F. Kaid Benfield, Matthew Raimi, & Donald D. T. Chen, Once There Were Greenfields: How Urban Sprawl Is Undermining Americas's Environment, Economy, and Social Fabric, NRDC (1999), →ISBN, pages 14-15:
The Bishop Ranch development, thirty miles east of San Francisco, contains a "landscraper" three stories high and over half a mile long.
Otherwise, the Mall of Georgia's salient attribute was its visible quality of being a fantastic misinvestment. One sensed, gaping at the immense "landscraper" — as Leon Krier has termed these horizontal megastructures — that they would never, ever, sell enough scented bath oil and other unnecessary consumer crap out of the place to justify its existence, […]
2007 — Douglas Brown, "Developer Mickey Zeppelin Takes Another Risk with a New Community", Denver Post, 15 April 2007:
Mickey calls it a "landscraper" because instead of rising tall and skinny into the heavens like a skyscraper, it stretches long and thin along the ground, with office space, an organic cafe and an exercise facility on the ground and second floors, and residences on the third floor.
But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.
2010 — Brough Scott, "Lloyd Webbers win Dubai millions", The Sunday Times, 29 March 2010:
To put up almost a mile of space-age, super-luxury grandstand, including a four-block, 11-storey hotel, within 12 months — the "longest landscraper in the world" — and then to establish two different racing surfaces, one turf, one the artificial Tapeta, which won universal approval, is an amazing achievement.
Noun: "a piece of heavy equipment used to move earth"[edit]
1965 — Larry H. Long, "Easy way to sod waterways", Farm Journal, Volume 89:
The idea struck George Ritchie, a Soil Conservation Service Technician, while he hauled soil with a landscraper. The bucket shaved up the sod with ease and carried the strips along intact.
1970 — House & Home, September 1970, page 116:
Versatile landscraper has a new feature that increases its usefulness: a cutting edge and curved mouldboard at the rear of the tool. The cutting edge cuts and rolls the dirt when the scraper is going backward, and it is hinged at the top so it swings out of the way when the scraper is going forward.
"We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.
1996 — William H. Lovejoy, Red Rain, Pinnacle Books (1996), →ISBN, page 167:
The railhead passed behind them, and soon she spotted the yellow bulldozers and landscrapers that were working two miles ahead of the track-laying.
Noun: "(nonstandard) a gardener or landscaper"[edit]
1922 — Shirley L. Seifert, "The Villa Claudia", The Delineator, August 1922:
They are ripping the old house to pieces inside and out and tearing up the earth something terrific. The gardening is in the hands of a swell 'landscraper' —
1926 — Olive Dean Hormel, Co-Ed, Charles Scriber's Sons (1926), page 184:
"I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."
My father died when I was knee high to him. I recollect he was a landscraper.
1951 — Jeff McDermid, "Lines by a Landscraper", Better Crops with Plant Food, June/July 1951, page 5:
I thoroughly enjoy attending conventions of landscrapers and horticultural wizards.
1979 — Robert Stephen Spitz, Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969, Viking Press (1979), →ISBN, page 141:
Once most of the poison ivy was eliminated, the rest of the overgrown field had to be sheared. The work load was monumental in comparison to the retinue of co-workers. There was no time to screen personnel or even hire experienced landscrapers.