Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Cultural Landscape Assessment Methods


Theoreticians (Taylor, 2002) have attracted attention to the present state of landscape "fragmentation" of the major part
of the earth surface global development. Any landscape impacted by man is cultural. Even those left part
may be considered as deliberately (cultural decision), put apart, thus cultural too. 
  
" Cultural landscapes can be thought of as any landscape bearing the impact of human activity , historic 
prehistoric. It is a concept emerging from increasing recognition that human beings are part of nature. " 
                                                                                                                                                                                       (Taylor, 2002)  

The word "landscape" even becomes synonym with "cultural" and "cultural landscape" becomes a pleonasm:  

From the point of view of landscape documentation proper , there may be a problem. If all landscapes are considered as cultural because one way
or another they are impacted by human presence, any landscape can be considered as significant in its own right. Then, landscapes that are historical
or specifically cultural significant may be by-passed in the plethora.         

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