Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Historical geography ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Landscapeesthetics ; United States of America
Nineteen essays that describe landscape meanings from different perspectives: landscape interpretation, landscape as a historic experience, landscape as myth and meaning, and landscape as artifice and art. - (DWG)
Based on an analysis of the antecedents to legislation for the protection of natural beauty, and of subsequent efforts to analyse and describe fine landscapes, this paper considers the contested use of ‘natural beauty’ in current landscape policy.
[b1] University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape, Sheffield, Royaume-Uni
Learning to love the landscapes of carbon-neutrality
Landscapes of Energies. Special Issue
Carbon economy ; Cultural landscape ; Landscape ; Landscape dynamics ; Landscapeesthetics ; Sustainable development
This paper proposes that society’s pursuit of sustainable development will involve landscape changes that attract protest and opposition. It considers the role of drivers of change. Energy is likely to be a major driver of new landscapes. Reference
is made to the notion of the acquired aesthetic. The paper therefore raises the possibility that we can learn to see beauty and attractiveness in emerging landscapes of carbon neutrality.
[b1] University of Sheffield, Department of Landscape, Sheffield, Royaume-Uni
Cultural landscape ; Cultural patrimony ; Cultural studies ; Environmental perception ; Landscape ; Landscapeesthetics ; Nature conservation ; Site preservation
The A. poses multiple questions about how we feel about the past ; how we see the landscape ; how and what we learn from them ; and when we should make a decision to preserve them. - (DWG)
Festivals, landscapes, and aesthetic engagement : a phenomenological approach to four Norwegian festivals
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Esthetics ; Festival ; Norway ; Phenomenology
The article examines the relationship between festivals, landscapes, and aesthetics. Festivals are characterized by social, aesthetic, and symbolic value, as well as cohesion, joy, openness, expressive, play, and diversity, and that experience
Concept ; Cultural identity ; Cultural studies ; Custom ; England ; Ideology ; Landscape ; Landscapeesthetics ; Place ; Territorial identity
This study of the evolving meaning of a key geographical term advocates a substantive (real rather than apparent) conception of landscape. A substantive concept of landscape is more concerned with social law and justice than with natural law
or aesthetics. The A. seeks to recover this meaning of landscape through an historical and geographical analysis of the transformations of meanings undergone by the concepts of landscape and nature.
Cultural geography ; Historical geography ; Landscapeesthetics ; Planned landscape ; United States ; Urban park
Description of the collaborative work of two famous American landscape architects, F. Olmstead and C. Vaux, to create a public park in the small city of Newburgh, New York. - (DWG)
Civilization ; Community ; Cultural studies ; Esthetics ; Ethics ; Europe ; Landscape ; Modernity
The landscape goes beyond his own definition. It prints the man whom it is marked by: it reflects him and his history. There is difference between landscape tout court and cultural landscape. The former is generic and the latter includes a universe
of values, images and symbols. Each community engraved there its ethics and aesthetics. In European landscapes, for example, we can see the distinctive and unique civilization signs. Modernity is now eroding and banalising the landscape scenery. We think