Cultural Landscapes

Flashcards covering the key vocabulary and concepts related to cultural landscapes, including factors that shape them and how societies modify their space.

Physical Landscape

Refers to every feature of the natural environment that is visible to the eye.

Cultural Landscape

Describes how a natural landscape has been modified by humans in a way that reflects their culture.

Agricultural Practices

The way different societies practice agriculture tells us about the world they inhabit and invokes a sense of place distinct to that location.

Industrial Practice

The way people engage in economic activity also leaves a mark on their physical environment.

Placelessness

When an industrial mark is bland and generic, it can lead to a sense of placelessness.

Religious Characteristics

People in most religions construct buildings that reflect their faith and create sacred spaces in the landscape.

Linguistic Characteristics

The language on the signs gives you a sense of the people who are there.

Sequent Occupants

Every past generation leaves its mark on the cultural landscape, and the evidence of those marks is known as sequent occupants.

Traditional Architecture

A method of building that uses local materials found close to the site and that reflect the needs of the people.

Postmodern Architecture

A style of architecture that arose in the 1960s as a reaction against modernist architecture, emphasizing both form and function.

Ethnicity

A quality of a people that binds them together, including a shared language and cultural heritage.

Attitudes about Gender

In more traditional societies in which strict gender roles exist, the cultural landscape will be modified accordingly.

Indigenous Communities and Land

The presence of indigenous communities and land also affects how society occupies space.