Landscape urbanism is a new theory in the field of urban planning that first appeared at the turn of the century stating that the best way to organize cities is through the design of the city's landscape rather than the design of its buildings. The phrase urban landscape first appeared in the mid-1990s. This phrase has since received many different uses, but is most often cited as a postmodernist response to the failures of New Urbanism. In 2008, the first Biennial "Biennale (arts)" in the world of Landscape Urbanism was held in the city of Bat Yam in Israel, which dealt with New Urbanism.