Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment.

Aug 15, 2023 · Cultural landscapes can give human geographers information about how a culture lives, what they value, and how they interact with the land. Examples of cultural landscapes include golf courses, urban neighborhoods, agricultural fields, relics, and heritage sites.

The National Park Service defines a cultural landscape 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."

Jul 12, 2023 · The NPS identifies four cultural landscape types: historic designed, historic vernacular, historic agricultural, and ethnographic. Their appearance varies widely, representing a range of uses, events, time periods, and environments.

Jul 20, 2018 · The concept of cultural landscapes has evolved over time and eventually was identified by the NPS as a distinct cultural resource category. Cultural landscapes reflect the myriad ways humans have adapted to, used, manipulated and transformed the …

Aug 9, 2024 · The ordinary, everyday vernacular landscape concept is the focus of engaging reading in D W Meinig’s edited volume featuring chapters by notable geographers.In the Introduction, Meinig (1979:1–3) eloquently proposes that “Landscape is an attractive, important, and ambiguous term [that encompasses] an ensemble of ordinary features which constitute an …

Jan 9, 2025 · What are cultural landscapes? The AP Exam may ask you to describe aspects of a cultural landscape to access the skill of photo analysis. You can practice looking at images of both cities and rural areas and identify how many aspects of a cultural landscape you can find.