Cultural landscape studies
 
   

 Eastern European Land-use pattern

 Village consists of road, coppice, fields, & lake

 
Compare to the US landscape patterns:
 

 

 Western Kansas farmland

 California aqueduct

 
Describe the differences you see between European and USA patterns.
 
A. What are the distinguishing patterns you see in these four photographs?

1. regularity in design?

2. irregular sequences?

3. any other obvious indications of settlement?

 

B. What may account for these distinct patterns visible from the air?

 

C. Alexander von Humboldt and the naturalists

 

D. A deeper look at landscape, meaning, changes in and interpreting those changes.

 

Landscape studies

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