Darsh Shah AP1420

CULTURAL LANDSCAPES

Cultural landscapes are landscapes that have been affected, influenced, or shaped by human involvement.

A cultural landscape can be associated with a person or event. It can be thousands of acres or a tiny homestead.

It can be a grand estate, industrial site, park, garden, cemetery, campus and more. 

Collectively, cultural landscapes are works of art, narratives of culture, and expressions of regional identity. 

A cultural landscape is defined as "a geographic area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals therein, associated with a historic event, activity, or person or exhibiting other cultural or aesthetic values.“

Cultural landscapes also reveal much about our evolving relationship with the natural world, and often derive their character from a human response to natural features and natural systems.

These systems can include geology or plant and animal habitats. Cultural landscapes contain invaluable information about our history and our relationship with the landscape around us.

Cultural landscapes give us a sense of place. They are part of our regional heritage, and part of each of our lives. They reveal our relationship with the land over time. Cultural landscapes are special places that reveal aspects of our originanL development through their forms, features, and history of use.

DEFINE

Exactly when the term cultural landscape was first coined one do not know, nor is it very important: it came by itself (Fægri 1988).

It certainly was not common before the Second World War, but it is found in, for example, a Swedish dictionary of 1939as a term with predominant scientific use.

In postwar dictionaries it is frequent. According to information from the Norwegian language council it was first recognized as a Norwegian word in 1960.

The Cultural Landscape concept first appeared among geographers for whom geography was divided into physical and social geography and who needed a conceptual tool to describe land including man-made land and objects such as houses, lines of communication, and cities.

Norbert Krebs (1923) used the term Oikumene(ancient Greek for the inhabited world) to denote regions that have been trans-formed by human activity i.e. cultural landscapes

HISTORY

Sarnath Taj Mahal Champaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat Musa Bagh, Lucknow Orchha Amber, Rajasthan Varanasi Ghats

EXAMPLES

Varanasi Ghats Sarnath

Musa Bagh, LucknowChampaner-Pavagadh, Gujarat

Amber, RajasthanOrchha

Taj Mahal

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