Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Historical geography ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Landscape esthetics ; 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)
Les photographies prises par satellite permettent d'analyser les paysages et de distinguer les unités topographiques. Analyse des composantes du paysage. Une certaine régularité est observée dans la disposition des unités de paysage sur les versants
The landscape-ecological methodological approach is due to its holistic approach most suitable for the study of relations between separate landscape-ecological units and their impacts on land-use and human activities. The Upper Gorenjska region
was divided into 5 landscape-ecological types and 19 landscape-ecological units. Landscape-ecological types and landscape-ecological units showed a high inner differentiation of the studied area, which is not clearly detected in the existing territorial units
, such as cadastral districts, councils, etc. The homogeneity of landscape-ecological types and landscape-ecological units enabled a simpler interpretation of the obtained data and, in turn, better results. - (IKR)
This study reviews some of the tools available to those who need to describe and understand the spatial structure of landscapes. In particular, it examines the way in which quantitative measures, or indices, can be used and what contribution
they might make to the management of forested landscapes in the UK. It is concluded that there is a pressing need for further research into the relationship between landscape pattern and ecological process.
Landscape research of the Rosice-Oslavany area (mid-west Moravia, Czechoslovakia)
Landscape components as landforms, topoclimate, water, soils cover, phytocenoses, land use and man-land interactions were analysed. The elementary spatial units of landscape were denoted as topochores. They are basic operational units
for the landscape management in the Rosice-Oslavany area. (MS).
analysis; 2) delimitation and characteristtion of the landscapeunits; 3) explanatory landscape factors; 4) diagnosis about the landscape dynamic. - (AAG)
A methodology to the study of the integrated landscape is shown, based on a geographical and systematic conception of the landscape. The study is thought at half scale (1/25,000-1/50,000) and is composed of four big stages: 1) the landscape elements
of such standardization cconcern are : terminology, the typology of geocomplexes and landscapesunits, procedures for identifying fragile places and/or key structures and processes within landscapes, a list of threshold values for chosen landscape attributes for chosen
The growing interest in scientifically based landscape protection and sustainable management strengthens the need for the standardization of landscape ecological approaches necessary to solve practical problems. The main fields
landscape attributes, a system of landscape indicators, and a general approach to landscape monitoring. - (BJ).
Real places: an unconventional guide to America's generic landscapes
Cultural landscape ; Cultural studies ; Perception ; Place ; Rural landscape ; United States of America ; Urban landscape
Terse, incisive vignettes on the gamut of permanent and ephemeral phenomena found in the rural and urban landscapes of the USA at a variety of scales. Among the 120 entries are: airspace, bioregion, boondocks, disaster area, no smoking area, porno
California ; Cultural landscape ; Landscape ; Nevada ; Tourism ; United States
The A. documents landscape change around Lake Tahoe straddling the Nevada-California border by rephotographing scenes taken at an earlier time. Once the site of extensive logging operations, mining and fishing, Lake Tahoe is now primarily a tourist
area where people see landscape in real estate terms.―(DWG)
Petrolia : a sacrificial landscape of American industrialization
Industrialization ; Landscape ; Oil ; Oil industry ; Pennsylvania ; Rural geography ; United States
America's earliest oil discovery dates from 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The A. reconstructs the early landscape changes wrought by petroleum extraction there. - (DWG)
Regionalization as an activity that splits a landscape into units can be carried out differently according to the planning procedures used. The natural landscapeunits are connected to the planning of natural resource, which were the content
of landscape at its very beginning. The arbitrary defi ned landscapeunits, i.e. raster pixels can be considered as a type of spatial unit that may surmount the two opposing types od landscpe units. - (IKR)
Numerische Taxonomie agrarisch genutzter Landschaften der Lossregion als Grundlage für Landschaftsplanung und Landschaftspflege (Numerical taxonomy of agriculturally used landscapes of the loess region as the basis of landscape planning
A quantitatively substantiated typification of agriculturally used loess landscapes has been worked out with the aid of a mathematic-statistical model. Grid units (1 km2) are grouped and typified by cluster analysis. The variance and discriminance
analysis provide for the repeatable assignment of landscapeunits to the type involved. - (IH)
On the superabundance of signs in our landscape : selections from a slide lecture
Cultural geography ; Landscape ; Semiology ; Semiotics of space ; United States ; Urban landscape ; Western Europe
Using Western Europe by way of contrast, the A. discourses on the proliferation of non-essential signs that pepper much of the U.S. landscape. Commercial signs dominate, but there are also signs that welcome, celebrate holidays and « express