Fresh approaches to visual methods in landscape studies
Cultural patrimony ; Cultural studies ; Landscape ; Planning ; Urban fringe
This paper discusses the condition and legibility of prehistoric grave mounds and their landscape context and assesses legibility for experts and lay people by combining archaeological landscape analysis and visual historicity landscape analysis
. At the fringe, the monuments were mostly both non-visible and had a changed context. Accepting that the prehistoric context has changed, within landscape planning and heritage management, recognising cultural heritage as features in the present-day landscape can
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[b1] Department of Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norvege
[b2] Landscape Department, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Norvege
Policy Integration for Sustainable Agricultural Landscapes : Taking Stock of UK Policy and Practice
Pathways towards Local Scale Policy Integration in Agricultural Landscapes
Agricultural landscape ; Farm ; Farmer ; Landscape ; Sustainable development ; United Kingdom
This paper examines English experience with agri-environment schemes as a tool to promote sustainable landscapes. Evidence is drawn from policy and academic literature and selected recent research. Performance is assessed by reference to key notions
of sustainable landscapes: spatial coherence, functionality and socio-cultural meaning. Whilst now widespread across England and well-supported by the environmental community, agri-environment schemes suffer from weaknesses in design and delivery including
insensitivity to the evolving needs and concerns of farming businesses, the wider policy context, and thereby to the integrity of the landscape. An upland case study illustrates problems of poor communication and advice, narrow and inconsistent delivery
, and under-recognition of social issues which together work against more sustainable agricultural landscapes. In the context of emerging EU and global challenges, a shift of emphasis towards systemic approaches, developed territorially in partnership
When the Everyday and the Sacred Collide: Positioning Płaszów in the Kraków Landscape
Cracow ; Cultural memory ; Poland ; Płaszów ; Sacred place ; Urban area ; Urban development ; Urban landscape ; concentration camp ; everyday landscapes ; sacred landscapes
In Kraków, Poland, the sacredness of the former Płaszów concentration camp is positioned within the everyday and urban landscape. The grievous history of the site contrasts the urbanity of the busy thoroughfare along one of the site's perimeters
commentary, I unpack the positioning of memory within the everyday landscape by means of landscape reading and visual methodologies. I critically consider the challenges of representing memory in everyday settings by (de)constructing Płaszów's memory layers
. Culminating around the question of how to maintain the site's sacristy amid an increasingly distractive urban landscape, these challenges position memories of the past alongside the stronger attachments we may have with places associated with our daily
Theorizing violence and the dialectics of landscape memorialization : a case study of Greensboro, North Carolina
Landscape ; Memorial monument ; North Carolina ; Race ; Social geography ; United States of America ; Violence
scientists must articulate more clearly how violence, as a theoretical construct, is abstracted from the concrete realities of lived experience and represented discursively and materially on the landscape. It concludes that the potential for, and actual
realized memorialization of landscapes of, violence is always and already a dialectical process of abstraction.
Agricultural landscape ; Classification ; Concept ; Cultural landscape ; European part of Russia ; Geo-ecology ; Landscape ; Landscape analysis ; Natural landscape ; Spatial distribution ; Valdai
A landscape in transition : The Arbuckle Mountains, 1870 to 1898
Agriculture ; Deciduous forest ; Habitat ; Human impact ; Land use ; Land utilisation ; Landscape ; Nineteenth Century ; Oklahoma ; United States of America ; Vegetation ; Wood
The AA. compare two historical data sets, from the 1870s and 1890s, respectively, to quantify changes in landscape structure and woody plant assemblages corresponding to rapid demographic changes occurring within the Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma
. During this period, the Public Land Survey System data show a landscape that became increasingly fragmented, as well as differences in stand composition and density. The documentation of these important historical anthropogenic changes occurring
Landscapes of Intersecting Trade and Environmental Policies : Intensive Canadian and American Farmlands
Pathways towards Local Scale Policy Integration in Agricultural Landscapes
Agricultural landscape ; Agriculture ; Canada ; Environment ; Environmental change ; Farm ; Great Lakes ; Iowa ; Management ; Ontario ; Trade policy ; United States of America
, this paper provides a retrospective review of the landscape effects of policies and practices related to environmental stewardship and agricultural trade. Conservation policies and typical farm practices are described and compared for the two regions
liberalisation, and farm revenue sources. The paper concludes with prospective ideas of how policies and practices can maintain or enhance environmental benefits within intensively farmed landscapes as best approaches for agriculture.
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[b1] Landscape Architecture, Centre for Land and Water Stewardship, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Assessing the Landscape Value of Public Works: Validation of the Methods in the Lowlands of the Middle Section of the Tajo River, Spain
Infrastructure ; Landscape ; Public works ; Spain ; Stream ; Tajo ; landscape assessment ; public works ; rivers
This paper proposes a method of landscape characterisation and assessment of public works associated with fluvial landscapes, which is validated in the middle section of the Tajo River. In this method, a set of criteria is identified that unifies
various characteristics of the landscape associated to the infrastructures. A specific weight is then assigned to each criterion in such a way as to produce a semi-quantitative value ranging from a minimum value of 0 to a maximum value of 10. Taken
Coupled numerical–analytical approach to landscape evolution modeling
The AA. propose a new approach for landscape evolution modeling that couples irregular grid-based numerical solutions for the large-scale fluvial dynamics and continuum-based analytical solutions for the small-scale fluvial and hillslope dynamics
. The new approach is implemented in the landscape evolution model DAC (divide and capture). The geometrical and topological characteristics of DAC's landscapes show compatibility with those of natural landscapes. A comparative study shows that, even
with large grid spacing, DAC predictions fit well an analytical solution for divide migration in the presence of horizontal advection of topography. In addition, DAC is used to study some outstanding problems in landscape evolution : the time to steady-state
Peaceful, Pleasant and Private: The British Domestic Garden as an Ordinary Landscape
Cultural landscape ; Daily life ; Domestic space ; Garden ; Great Britain ; Landscape ; Mass-Observation Archive ; United Kingdom ; gardens ; narrative ; ordinary landscapes ; privacy
-Observation Archive (MO) to explore ideas of landscape, privacy and attachment that emerge from daily practices and routines in these ordinary domestic spaces. We argue for the domestic garden as a vernacular or ordinary landscape that displays tensions
is a space well described in Britain in its public form but less well known as a private, everyday landscape. In this way a cultural landscape study becomes a contemporary critical geography of an ordinary space.
Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape : the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites
This article examines the role of postgraduate education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites within the City of London’s institutional landscape. By identifying education as one mechanism of creation and sustenance
, this analysis enhances understanding of how the institutional landscapes that underlie financial centres might be maintained or, when necessary, challenged; challenge being significant in relation to attempts to reform practices and cultures in international
On breathing and geography : explorations of data sonifications of timespace processes with illustrating examples from a tidally dynamic landscape (Severn Estuary, UK)
This article examines breathing and geography through the explorations of data sonifications of timespace processes with illustrating examples from a tidally dynamic landscape (Severn Estuary, UK). Firstly, it sets out the principles of sonification
as a method, defining its basic principles and relating it to both qualitative and quantitative data. Secondly, it offers potential to geographic interests in process, times, rhythm, landscape, place, and more besides— ‘representing’ various aspects
Landscapes, Vegetation, and Folklore in Late Medieval Art : An Iconographic Study Based on Selected Austrian and South German Panel Paintings
Fresh approaches to visual methods in landscape studies
Art ; Austria ; Cultural studies ; Folklore ; Germany ; Iconography ; Landscape ; Middle Ages ; Religion ; Vegetation
This article examines the symbolism and realism of naturalistically depicted flowering plants in Late Gothic art from Southern Central Europe. A large number of fifteenth- to sixteenth-century pre-Reformation panel paintings with a landscape context
and courtyards. In addition, the seasonality of depicted plants was observed in the scenes of the Passion cycle and in the scene of the Visitation. The realism of these landscapes was manifested in these pictures by showing plants growing in places they belonged
and sufficiency narratives—can help achieve more sustainable landscapes when implemented into food policies. Through the proposed approach, education, information and communication are seen as keys to change. The new approach may have important effects
on landscape, and on the relationship between cities and the adjoining countryside.
Landscape position and spatial patterns in the distribution of land use within the southern Appalachian Mountains
The AA. examined the influence of landscape position on spatial patterns in land-use distribution within the Little Tennessee River Basin (LTRB) of the southern Appalachian Mountains. They show that landscape position, defined with respect to both
natural and anthropogenic spatial variables, provides for the identification of statistically significant differences in the distribution of common forms of land use in the study region. Using the same variables, significant differences in the landscape
positions subject to land-use change in the LTRB are also examined. These results suggest landscape position exerts a strong influence on the distribution of different forms of land use and the likeliness of given area undergoing land-use change (LUC
Soil disturbance and salinisation on a vineyard affected by landscape recontouring in Marlborough, New Zealand
Agropedology ; Landscape ; Levelling ; New Zealand ; Organic materials ; Salinity ; Soil properties ; South Island ; Vinegrowing area
This paper investigates the effects of landscape recontouring on soil morphology, topsoil organic matter, and soil and water salinisation on a vineyard site in the Awatere Valley of the Marlborough region, in the NE of New Zealand's South Island
. Soil pits in representative locations in the virgin and recontoured landscapes were opened for profile comparison. No significant differences in topsoil organic C and N were found between recontoured and virgin landscapes. Diffuse throughflow