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.

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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

• Land
• landscape defined
• landscape as a scale of spatial organization
• landscape interpreted
• land as wealth from WEAL
• land system of the USA
• landscape education is a lifelong study
• land as historical geography
• land as the image of a garden
• gardens
• country
• community of life
• land tied into water
• land as places or terrain
• land as property
• laws of ecology that limits landscape changes
• technology as an agent of changes in the land
• land as a metaphor
• land ethic
• land as energy

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