Landscape and History
   
Yi-Fu Tuan, "Thought and Landscape: The Eye and The Mind's Eye"  
What is landscape?

An integrated image, constructed by the mind and of feeling.

Only occurs in the "mind's eye" in the mature mind. Requires cognitive and educational capacities.

Not "environment."

 

 
Objective elements

Subjective elements
(moral, aesthetic, sentimental)

 
Vertical view
Side view
 
Examples
 

a map

an index of soil composition

a graph of incomes of residents

a photograph ?

a landscape painting

a poem

a description

a photograph ?

 
     
 
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