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Ch. 6 – Interpreting Places and Landscapes

Ch. 6 – Interpreting Places and Landscapes. Identifying how landscape is perceived and understood by people The Code of landscape Cultural identities and status categories Landscape as cultural archive Postmodern from Modernity. Roadside signs.

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Ch. 6 – Interpreting Places and Landscapes

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  1. Ch. 6 – Interpreting Places and Landscapes • Identifying how landscape is perceived and understood by people • The Code of landscape • Cultural identities and status categories • Landscape as cultural archive • Postmodern from Modernity

  2. Roadside signs • The Mother Road Route 66, and Historic Route 80 • A place that no longer truly exists • A popular symbolic landscape of a simpler time against a global landscape

  3. Behavior, Knowledge and Human Environments • When Globalization reshapes the agricultural production system • From subsistence to to profit driven • Territoriality • Ethology: The study of the formation of human customs and beliefs

  4. Proxemics • The study of the Social and cultural meanings that people give to personal space • The regulation of social interaction • The regulation of access to people and resources • The provision of a focus and symbol of group membership and identity

  5. Existential Imperative • People define themselves in relation to their material world • The lifeworld everyday places, patterns and surroundings

  6. Insiders/Outsiders - Symbolism • Uniforms - recognition of authority symbols • Local dress, language, cuisine • Globalization of cuisine, appearance • Use of color meaning and Globalization

  7. Experience and Meaning • Information availability • Simplification of meaning • Paths • Edges • Districts • Nodes • Landmarks

  8. Paths • The channels along which they and others move; streets, walkways, transit lines, canals

  9. Edges • Barriers that separate one area from another; for example, shorelines, walls, railroad tracks

  10. Districts • Areas with an identifiable character (physical and/or cultural) that people mentally “enter” and “leave” • A business district • An ethnic neighborhood • A historic district

  11. Nodes • Strategic points and foci for travel • Street corners • Traffic junctions • City squares • Waterfronts

  12. Images and Behavior • Environments are learned through experience;Process: • Real World • Information • Perception • Cognition • Recall • Transformed Cognitive Image

  13. Landscape as a Human System • Landscapes of Power • Vernacular landscapes • Bucolic Countryside • Scenery • Landscapes of Despair • Derelict landscapes • Symbolic landscapes

  14. Ordinary Landscapes • Regional architecture • Similarity • Cityscapes • Representation of a place through time • Humanistic approach • Values, meaning systems, intentions, perceptions

  15. Vulgarity • Larger-than-life symbols • Ostentation • Power symbols • Landscape as Text • Categorized landscapes based on elements they contain

  16. Place Marketing • Style Consumption • Tourism Shopping • Block Malls • Destinations • Las Vegas • Grand Canyon • Venice • Places to “visit”

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