Transcript Ch. 6 – Interpreting Places and Landscapes

Ch. 6 – Interpreting Places and
Landscapes
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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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The Mother Road
Route 66, and
Historic Route 80
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A place that no
longer truly exists
A popular symbolic
landscape of a
simpler time against
a global landscape
Behavior, Knowledge and
Human Environments
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When Globalization
reshapes the
agricultural
production system
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From subsistence to
to profit driven
Territoriality
Ethology: The study
of the formation of
human customs and
beliefs
Proxemics
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The study of the Social
and cultural meanings
that people give to
personal space
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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
Existential Imperative
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People define
themselves in
relation to their
material world
The lifeworld
everyday places,
patterns and
surroundings
Insiders/Outsiders - Symbolism
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Uniforms recognition of
authority symbols
Local dress,
language, cuisine
Globalization of
cuisine, appearance
Use of color
meaning and
Globalization
Experience and Meaning
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Information
availability
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Simplification of
meaning
Paths
Edges
Districts
Nodes
Landmarks
Paths
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The channels along
which they and
others move;
streets, walkways,
transit lines, canals
Edges
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Barriers that
separate one area
from another; for
example, shorelines,
walls, railroad tracks
Districts
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Areas with an
identifiable character
(physical and/or
cultural) that people
mentally “enter” and
“leave”
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A business district
An ethnic
neighborhood
A historic district
Nodes
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Strategic points and
foci for travel
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Street corners
Traffic junctions
City squares
Waterfronts
Images and Behavior
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Environments are
learned through
experience;Process:
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Real World
Information
Perception
Cognition
Recall
Transformed
Cognitive Image
Landscape as a Human System
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Landscapes of
Power
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Vernacular
landscapes
Bucolic Countryside
Scenery
Landscapes of
Despair
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Derelict landscapes
Symbolic
landscapes
Ordinary Landscapes
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Regional
architecture
Similarity
Cityscapes
Representation of a
place through time
Humanistic
approach
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Values, meaning
systems, intentions,
perceptions
Vulgarity
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Larger-than-life
symbols
Ostentation
Power symbols
Landscape as Text
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Categorized
landscapes based
on elements they
contain
Place Marketing
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Style Consumption
Tourism Shopping
Block Malls
Destinations
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Las Vegas
Grand Canyon
Venice
Places to “visit”