Landscape Interfaces: Cultural Heritage in Changing Landscapes
Posted by Urban Planning Theory at 12:59 AMThe book contributes to the relatively extensive study of landscapes by exploring the interfaces in the landscape. Instead of taking a viewpoint of some of the disciplines we try to map the links between them, indicate points for common understanding and cooperation. These interfaces happen between different cultures, between natural and human sciences, past and present, lay people and experts, time and space, preservation and use, ecology and semiosis. It compares how different cultures interpret landscapes, how cultural values are assessed, explores new tools for assessment, picks up the discussion about landscape authenticity, and finally draws perspectives for further research. It is not a textbook on its own, rather it is additional reading for any course dealing with landscapes on advanced levels, for geographers, landscape ecologists, landscape architects and everybody concerned with landscapes.
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The cultural landscape is fashioned out of a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result. Under the influence of a given culture, itself changing through time, the landscape undergoes development, passing - Page 34
i) represent a masterpiece of human creative genius, or ii) exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town planning or landscape design or, - Page 116
see, feel, think, imagine, and so on, and which he would readily understand when similarly applied by others. An experiencedistant concept is one that specialists of one sort or another ... employ to forward their scientific, philosophical, or practical aims. - Page 286
phases, and probably reaching the end of its cycle of development. With the introduction of a different, that is, alien culture, a rejuvenation of the cultural landscape sets in, or a new landscape is superimposed on remnants of an older one. The natural landscape is - Page 34
the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link”. - Page 298
The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a culture group. Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium and the cultural landscape is the result - Page 375
meet the test of authenticity in design, material, workmanship or setting and in the case of cultural landscapes their distinctive character and components ... and have adequate legal and/or contractual and/or traditional protection and management mechanisms to ensure the conservation of the nominated cultural properties or cultural landscapes”. - Page 117
twofold function: first to establish an order which will enable individuals to orient themselves in their material and social world and to master it; and secondly to enable communication - Page 361
to experience-near concepts leaves an ethnographer awash in immediacies, as well as entangled in vernacular. Confinement to experience-distant ones leaves him stranded in abstractions and smothered in jargon”. - Page 286
indications which identify a good as originating in the territory of a member, or a region or locality - Page 18
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+ By Gary ( Fry, Hannes Palang
+ Published 2003, Springer
+ 405 pages
+ ISBN 1402014376
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September 22, 2007 at 1:16 AM
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