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The Landscape as Cultural Artifact: Understanding Society Through Its Environment

Every landscape is an artifact shaped by humanity, revealing cultural values and societal aspirations much like literature or journalism. This human-made environment reflects our tastes, fears, and ordinary qualities in tangible form. By examining our landscapes, we uncover the intricate tapestry of our culture—flaws and glories alike. Adopting a personal approach to landscape observation encourages us to recognize the often-unseen narratives embedded in our everyday surroundings. It invites reflection on how the built environment narrates our collective autobiography.

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The Landscape as Cultural Artifact: Understanding Society Through Its Environment

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    1. 1 A Geographical Text (A)ny landscape is an artifact - an object made by man. Its condition, rightly seen, reveals a society's culture as directly as does a novel or a newspaper or a Fourth of July oration because today's environment, the "natural part" included, is synthetic Our human landscape is our unwitting autobiography, reflecting our tastes, or aspirations, and even our fears, in tangible, visible form.... All our cultural warts and blemishes are there, and our glories too; but above all, our ordinary day-to-day qualities are exhibited for anybody who wants to find them and knows how to look for them

    2. 2 Personal Approach

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