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Jain, Priya. "Preserving Cultural Landscapes: A Cross-Cultural Analysis." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/190653.

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In the past two decades, a variety of policy frameworks have been designed worldwide for the protection and stewardship of cultural landscapes. While the National Park Service (NPS) in United States has developed a system of preparing Cultural Landscape Inventories and Reports (CLI & CLR) to address sites under their administration, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has its own criteria for designating cultural landscapes within an international forum. This document attempts to outline and critically analyze these two approaches with the aim of exploring their applicability to the Indian milieu. The ultimate aim of the research is to attempt the formulation of a methodological framework for the implementation of cultural landscape preservation in India. This is achieved by first exploring endemic Indian notions about time, space, nature and culture, followed by the proposal of a few key concepts or broad recommendations that should, in my opinion, guide any cultural landscape preservation efforts in the Indian context. This is supported by a discussion of a few best practices at sites both in India and worldwide where appropriate solutions were sought. Lessons from these as well as the analysis of the NPS and UNESCO models together give rise to a methodological framework form initiating cultural landscape preservation in India.
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Lopez, Timi [Verfasser]. "Changing Cultural Landscapes around the Jostedalsglacier (West Norway), from Cultural Landscape Management to Cultural Landscape Governance – a Future Path? / Timi Lopez." Bonn : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1124540180/34.

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Nicolson, Kenneth N. "Conserving Hong Kong's heritage cultural landscapes." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B32045219.

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Gorski, Andrew David. "The Environmental Aesthetic Appreciation of Cultural Landscapes." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193297.

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In recent decades the canon of environmental aesthetics has expanded beyond its primary concern of understanding what is beautiful in the fine arts to the appreciation of natural and cultural landscapes. Corresponding with society's growing interest in conservation, environmental aesthetics has emerged as relevant to many conservation discussions. The preservation and interpretation of cultural landscapes is complicated by resources that are in a constant state of change. Traditional cultural landscape preservation practices have had mixed results. A focus on interpretation rather than preservation is generally considered a strategy for improving cultural landscape practices. Applying theories developed in the field of environmental aesthetics to cultural landscapes may lead to principles helpful to their preservation and interpretation. In this study, an environmental aesthetic framework is developed and applied to the Canoa Ranch, a historic property south of Tucson, Arizona, to evaluate the potential of using environmental aesthetics in appreciation of cultural landscapes.
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Satherley, Shannon D. "Reconnection : a contemporary development in cultural landscape theory contributing to rehabilitation strategies for Australian open-cut coal mining landscapes." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2005. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/59556/6/59556a.pdf.

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A value-shift began to influence global political thinking in the late 20th century, characterised by recognition of the need for environmentally, socially and culturally sustainable resource development. This shift entailed a move away from thinking of ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ as separate entities – the former existing to serve the latter – toward the possibility of embracing the intrinsic worth of the nonhuman world. Cultural landscape theory recognises ‘nature’ as at once both ‘natural’, and a ‘cultural’ construct. As such, it may offer a framework through which to progress in the quest for ‘sustainable development’. This study makes a contribution to this quest by asking whether contemporary developments in cultural landscape theory can contribute to rehabilitation strategies for Australian open-cut coal mining landscapes. The answer is ‘yes’. To answer the research question, a flexible, ‘emergent’ methodological approach has been used, resulting in the following outcomes. A thematic historical overview of landscape values and resource development in Australia post-1788, and a review of cultural landscape theory literature, contribute to the formation of a new theoretical framework: Reconnecting the Interrupted Landscape. This framework establishes a positive answer to the research question. It also suggests a method of application within the Australian open-cut coal mining landscape, a highly visible exemplar of the resource development landscape. This method is speculatively tested against the rehabilitation strategy of an operating open-cut coal mine, concluding with positive recommendations to the industry, and to government.
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Price, Steinbrecher Barry Ellen. "The Geography of Heritage: Comparing Archaeological Culture Areas and Contemporary Cultural Landscapes." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/560836.

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This thesis compares archaeological culture areas and contemporary cultural landscapes of the Hopi and Zuni tribes as an evaluation of the scale in which stakeholders consider heritage resources. Archaeological culture areas provide a heuristic for interpretations of past regional patterns. However, contemporary Hopi and Zuni people describe historical and spiritual ties to vast cultural landscapes, stretching well beyond archaeological culture areas in the American Southwest. Cultural landscapes are emic delineations of space that are formed through multiple dimensions of interaction with the land and environment. Concepts of time and space and the role of memory, connectivity, and place are explored to help to delineate the scale of Hopi and Zuni cultural landscapes. For both Hopis and Zunis, the contemporary cultural landscape is founded upon the relationships between places and between past and present cultural practices. Cultural landscapes provide a framework, for anthropological research and historic preservation alike, to contextualize the smaller, nested scales of social identity and practice that they incorporate.
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Mallqui, Caballero Carmen Guadalupe, and Luis David Seng Wha Lau. "One hundred years after the Peruvian Landscapes: The contemporary importance of the cultural landscape." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119924.

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The geographical landscape has always been attractive to everyone because there you can express the human curiosity to know the surrounding world. The ways to present or to describe these landscapes fill the literature books and, in the Peruvian case, there are the works of all writers to a major or minor degree. Thus, at the beginning of the 20th century it is notable the figure of the historian José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, himself an aristocrat from Lima who made an heroic travel from Cusco to Ocopa, Huancayo, at a time when there were not roads, making the trip on mule back. Here we present a brief description of an experience made in October, 2012, where we look to capture some of Riva-Agüero’s impressions that could have marked his vision about the life conditions of the high mountain people of the Andes, which may have changed his political view of them.
El paisaje geográfico ha sido siempre el atractivo de todo ser humano porque allí se expresa la curiosidad de conocer el mundo que nos rodea. Las formas de presentar o describir estos paisajes llenan los libros de literatura y en el caso peruano están los trabajos de todos los escritores en mayor o menor grado. Así, a comienzos del siglo XX destaca la figura del historiador José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, un aristócrata limeño que realizó un viaje heroico para la época en que no habían carreteras y cubrió a lomo de bestia el trecho entre Cusco y Ocopa, en el valle del Mantaro. Aquí se hace una breve descripción de la experiencia realizada en octubre de 2012, en donde se buscó captar algunas impresiones que pudieron haber marcado la visión de este viajero acerca de la vida de la población andina y que, de alguna manera, le hicieron cambiar su pensamiento político.
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Frears, Lucy. "Unlocking landscapes using locative media." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2016. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13330/.

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This interdisciplinary research is situated within the practice and discourse of locative media at the confluence of art, location and technology. The practice-based research project aims to use the arts to address a crisis arising from rapid redevelopment in a marginal coastal town – Hayle, Cornwall. A recent supermarket build on a prominent Hayle heritage quay led to UNESCO’s threat to de-list the entire Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site, awarded only in 2006. Research builds on recent findings on the link between increased sense of self and community cohesion through connection to heritage and participation in the arts. Media artists, participants and theorists have indicated that locative media experiences can promote connection to landscapes and their histories. However, these claims are unsubstantiated by empirical research to date. This research seeks to redress that through systematic analysis (unusual in the arts and therefore distinct). The main research question posed was: Does locative media allow people to develop a deeper connection with landscape and, if so, how? A smartphone deep map app was created – an evocation of a Cornish post-industrial landscape assembled from audio memory traces, sound and visual images revealed using GPS and the moving body. The Hayle Churks app weaves past and present, absence and presence and digital content into physical place. The Hayle Churks app is a research tool and published creative practice that received a national award in 2014. The empirical data is an original contribution to knowledge. Additional contributions include a timeline – a historical overview of the relationship between locative media art and emerging technologies and a deep map app reference tool for artists. The research explores the role of immersion and embodiment and how recording and listening to audio and voice performance affect immersion. Readers of this thesis are encouraged to access the Hayle Churks smartphone app prior to and during reading.
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Kafer, Elijah. "Techné exploration of unmanifested shifts in cultural landscapes /." This title; PDF viewer required Home page for entire collection, 2008. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.

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Alexander, Jordan Marijana. "Exploring spiritual landscape in Sitka Alaska to enhance cross-cultural understanding." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/5566.

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This thesis examines spiritual landscapes, illustrating their richness in understanding cross-cultural relations and revealing deeper cultural attitudes toward the environment. It also shows that spiritual landscapes hold visible and invisible remnants of the past, providing insights for intercultural relations today. The research is timely, building on the momentum of international and national efforts to better understand and preserve indigenous cultures and settler heritages. The collisions of diverse cultures during first contact (1400s to 1700s) left society with enduring intercultural challenges. Perspectives on colonial impacts range from culture annihilation and land dispossession to legitimate expressions of imperial power and politics. Regarding land issues, conflicts persist in ownership and management (e.g., legislation and treaties), preservation and designation (e.g., how and whose values apply), and use and access (e.g., equitable provision and regulation of rival commercial, community and conservancy interests). This thesis elevates earlier judgements to reveal insights into land issues focusing on multicultural contributions. The comprehensive approach used to study Sitka Alaska⁰́₈s spiritual landscape considers spiritual indicators including burial grounds, worship buildings, homelands, and place names, alongside lasting cultural attitudes toward such places (geomentalities). Indigenous Tlingit, Russian and American contributions to patterns of settlement and development of sacred places are revealed in the cultural layering (palimpsest) evident in the contemporary landscape. Using an inclusive comparable platform broadens Western discourses of spirituality, planning and land management. It recognises multicultural aspects evident in contemporary settings, including power relations and settler practices of appropriation and conquest that continue in planning instruments and perpetuated spatial preferences. Such observations, together with spiritual indicators and attitudes provide a comprehensive exploration of Sitka⁰́₈s spiritual landscape to celebrate several cultural heritages on equal terms. With globalisation and ongoing land conflicts this work urges planners, policy makers and educators to consider the value of adding geographic and spiritual dimensions to enhance cross-cultural understanding. Practical applications for a range of local and international settings and individual decision-making are presented for consideration.
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Xu, Yuemao. "A cross-cultural study of prospect-refuge theory." Thesis, This resource online, 1993. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07212009-040337/.

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Martinho, da Silva Isabel 1965. "The montado landscapes of Alentejo: Identification of threatened Mediterranean landscapes in southern Portugal." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291578.

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Montado landscapes are agro-silvo-pastoral systems where pastures and crops occur under the canopy of trees. They are specific to the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. In Alentejo, two types of montado with different origins, geographic distribution, and economy can be distinguished: the Holm Oak Montado and the Cork Oak Montado. Changes in Alentejo's socioeconomic situation have led to montados, until recently the most profitable land use for the poor soils of the region, being currently in danger of extinction either by abandonment or substitution. This thesis seeks to identify the structure, dynamic evolution, and possible future of montados. It demonstrates, within an historical perspective, that these landscapes can assume different forms, corresponding to varying degrees of intensity and uses. Therefore, the preservation of their productive, ecological, and cultural values necessitates redefinition of their form in relation to the evolving socioeconomic context.
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Mlambo, Nolwazi S. X. "Restoring Curio[City] : An Alternative Adaptive Reuse Approach for the derelict Staatsmuseum building throough Landscape Design." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78705.

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Urban relics, memories of bygone eras, sit desolate and disregarded on the Northern and Southern fringes of the City of Tshwane’s inner-city, also known as Pretoria. Flaking facades, uninviting margins and deflected gazes have resulted in forgotten city  narratives, narratives that are immortalised in these monuments.  These compositions of culture, and remnants of the past, have fallen prey to the swift progress of the city and have been left forgotten as they retreat into the shadows of their former grandeur. Dwarfed by the bustle of the city and it’s towering urban fabric, a generation unknowing pass these urban gems daily, unaware of their past splendour. Existing now only as  urban scars, these buildings become spectators to the continued advancing and changing cityscape, they become invisible remnants of the city’s cultural and historical landscape.  The dissertation aims to generate a landscape design proposal for the Old Staatsmuseum building as an attempt to reactivate one such urban relic, to return it to some of its historic grandeur, and imagining new ways for old buildings to inject meaning into the cityscape. Drawing inspiration from creative industries, such as art, media and functional creations, the project investigates landscape architecture’s potential to; regenerate and remodel buildings into creative sites, prevent their further decay, celebrate their inherent adaptive history and  make them accessible to the new generation of city dwellers and visitors. Furthermore, such an attempt also seeks to connect and enhance the otherwise fragmented urban nature within the City of Tshwane, by connecting the Old Staatsmusem, to its context of the National Zoological Gardens, and further afield to the grassland landscapes of Gauteng. Landscape architecture is therefore used to present an allusion of the “continuation of cultural phenomena through built infrastructure” (Wong 2017:30) and as a catalyst for urban regeneration in the Pretoria inner-city.
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Richter, T. "Marginal Landscapes? : the Azraq Oasis and the cultural landscapes of the final Pleistocene southern Levant." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2009. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/18727/.

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This thesis examines the final Pleistocene cultural landscape of the Azraq Oasis in eastern Jordan on the basis of archaeological fieldwork conducted at Ayn Qasiyya and AWS 48, two Epipalaeolithic sites in the southern Azraq wetlands. It challenges traditional understandings of landscape and socio-cultural changes during the Epipalaeolithic period, and this period’s role in shaping the subsequent emergence of agriculture and sedentism. The current model of socio-cultural change, which considers the Epipalaeolithic-Neolithic transition as a development from simple foragers, to complex collectors, to farmers, is critically reviewed. Evidence from the Epipalaeolithic of the Le-vant is highlighted that strongly suggests that this unilineal sequence must be re-evaluated. Furthermore, the social evolutionary underpinnings of this model are critiqued and rejected. This social evolutionary model is based on a conceptualization of the southern Levantine landscape as sub-divided into distinct phyto-geographical zones, which suggest a dichotomy between a lush ‘core’ and a impoverished ‘periphery’. Palaeoenvironmental data, however, is argued to be poorly correlated with major instances of socio-cultural change. This dichotomy also relates to a static understanding of landscape as empty, commodified space. To examine the Azraq Oasis from a different perspective and to suggest an alternative narrative the archaeological evidence produced by three seasons of fieldwork at Ayn Qasiyya and AWS 48 is first described in detail, and then interpreted from a practice orientated perspective. This practice perspective centres on examining the châine opératoire of the chipped stone artefacts and the activities and practices at the sites. It is argued that practices at these localities shapes space into social places, and that hereby landscapes become socially and culturally constructed. Using data from Ayn Qasiyya specifically, the social interactions of diverse social communities in the Azraq Basin can be tentatively reconstructed, providing a further example of the way in which social space was created though social engagement. I argue that these instances of the creation of places, and the evidence for social interaction, provide an alternative perspective on the Early and Middle Epipalaeolithic in the Azraq Basin and the southern Levant as a whole, which should lead us to reconsider the applicability of the geographical core-periphery dichotomy and social evolutionary models.
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ASRAV, EMINE CIGDEM. "Assessing Cultural Values of Landscapes: From Knowledge to Action for Historic Rural Landscapes in Turkey." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2846176.

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Sundberg, Juanita R. "Conservation encounters : NGOs, local people, and changing cultural landscapes /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Mok, Keng-kio. "Garden and city conservation of urban cultural landscape through partnership, a case study of Macau's historic garden, San Francisco garden /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4218339X.

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Harrison, Sheri-Marie L. "Nationalism and Self-Representation: Negotiating Sovereignty in Jamaican Cultural Landscapes." Scholarly Repository, 2008. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/147.

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This study investigates colonial, independence, and postcolonial moments to identify different modes of self-fashioning in the Jamaican landscape. It also explores the ways collective and individual senses of self, identity and sovereignty are perceived between the late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. I assert that political processes involved in consolidating official national identities problematically reproduced hierarchies and exclusions reminiscent of the colonial period in politically independent contexts. In this regard, the cultural landscape serves multivalent purposes of proving grounds for visions of Jamaican national identity, counter-hegemonic articulations of those excluded from or marginalized by official notions of Jamaican national identity, and spaces for the invention of non-traditional modes of self-representation. I critique early nationalist projects through an examination of Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron and discuss the ways unacknowledged or unconsciously retained European cosmological elements undermine the sovereign identity they sought to construct. I also examine Michael Thelwell's The Harder they Come, Sistren's Lionheart Gal and Don Lett's film Dancehall Queen to discuss the marginalization of the working poor that persists within the newly independent relations of political power, and illustrate the ways modes of cultural self-fashioning like the ruud bwoy, or community theater emerge as spaces for negotiating self, identity, survival, and self-determination among the working class. I argue that the independence context is marked by exclusionary politics that provoke the development of more individual modes of self-fashioning, that vary between men and women, and also provide sites for counter-hegemonic discourses in opposition to nationalized discourses. Moving beyond the traditional framework of community based on heteronormative models, I examine Patricia Powell's A Small Gathering of Bones and The Pagoda to consider how queer communities are marginalized in nationalized discourses. I critique self-identity and self-fashioning within non-normative sexual communities in an analysis that traces gender and sexuality as indices of exclusionary patterns that are reproduced within nationalized identities throughout the country's history. This discussion argues that there is an institutionalized complicity between politics, culture, and religion in sustaining colonial power relations far beyond the colonial context.
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Van, Vlack Kathleen A. "Puaxant Tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute Cultural Landscapes and Pilgrimage Trails." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/223332.

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Southern Paiute people stipulate that when the world was formed, the Creator gave them sole possession of the lands that constitute the traditional Southern Paiute nation and the Creator gave them the responsibilities to tend to the land, resources, and each other. As a result, from these stewardship duties, Southern Paiute people developed complex socio-ecological methods for promoting and maintaining both ecological and spiritual balance. One method was used by medicine people or Puha'gants and it involved them traveling to special ceremonial areas to acquire knowledge and power. These journeys required Puha'gants to undergo intense purification and preparation and they traveled along designated trails to places far away from their home communities. The pilgrimage process allowed the pilgrims to gain knowledge and power at their destination places to use in ceremonies to restore balance and promote sustainability in their home communities. My dissertation study examines six pilgrimage trails across Southern Paiute territory in an effort to understand this process. As a way to frame my discussion, this analysis draws upon four concepts--(1) Southern Paiute place logic, (2) cultural landscapes, (3) pilgrimage, and (4) communitas. For trail systems under study, I examine the types of places visited and their associated performance characteristics, and specifically the types of relationships pilgrims, or Puhahivats with each other, the places visited, and objects used.
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FRENDA, ANTONINO. "CHINESE CULTURAL LANDSCAPES. Sustainable development, Conservation and continuity of tradition." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2643130.

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Research Field The research starts from the need to reflect on the growth of the contemporary city and the land consumption in China, investigating the question in the light of the sustainable development and of the preservation of cultural heritage. In a rapidly developing context as the Chinese one, the relentless rules of industrialization and urbanization have broken the existing balance in the countryside and transformed the entire social structure. The metropolis swallows places and several villages are dismantled without reserves. In addition to this ‘topofagia’ there is the progressive threat of abandonment of a large-scale of rural territory. The landscape, result of the dialogue and the connection between mankind-nature-culture, loses its link with the territory and traditions, becoming a (non) place that support business and economic functions in which the tourism industry fits as an additional factor that sees reducing the identity of rural sites in a mere stereotype of tourist attraction. Research Object The research looks to the agricultural and productive landscape in the north-central China with particular attention to the area of the Loess Plateau, involved in an important process of sustainable development and soil conservation that takes into account the protection of local traditions (cultural, architectural , agricultural, etc.). In particular, the study addresses the issue of preservation of the earthen vernacular heritage represented by Yáodòng, today completely abandoned and at risk. Subject of studies and research, this heritage is becoming a point of reference to look to for the preparation of land development plans driven by the principles of sustainability, inclusion, innovation and social responsibility and which attempting to reconcile the local traditions with the new modern standards in low-cost housing. Research Methodology The research uses a methodology of reading of the landscape, which is divided substantially according to two approaches: a 'sensitive' approach and a 'descriptive' one. Initially a landscape awakens in us emotions and feelings. Our first approach is therefore aesthetic, emotional and sensory. In this meaning, literature and iconography are an interesting method of investigation of the landscape that provides a reading not detached from the experience of the writer/photographer/painter / etc. ('sensitive' approach). Subsequently, the analysis of the landscape for individual layers allows us to highlight the structural elements and trace individual items, which summarize its identity and influence our vision ('descriptive' approach). Research Tools Through involvement in the cultural debate and active participation in the projects of protection of local heritage conducted by the University (Xi’an Jiaotong University. Department of Architecture / Institute of heritage sites & historical architecture conservation), by local research centers (Silk Road Economic Belt Cultural Tourism Union / Xi’an Tourism Design and Research Institute) and international ones (ICOMOS), it was possible to investigate the strategies and guidelines of ongoing development. Bibliographic and archivistic researches, as well as the study of law (local and international) for the protection of cultural heritage, have been useful to track the state of the art and highlight any discrepancies between the legislative guidelines (theory) and modus operandi (practice). Research Outline The research is made up of four chapters. The first chapter traces the main historical stages of post-revolutionary China, with particular attention to land reforms that have affected the country (from agricultural collectivization of the early years of the People's Republic until the decollectivisation following the plenary session of the eighth Central Committee and the reforms dictated by Deng Xiaoping in the late 70s). The second chapter focuses on the study of the conservative practice of cultural and environmental heritage in China, looking to the local instruments of safeguard in the broader context of the international legislation. The third chapter give us a 'sensitive' reading of cultural landscapes, offering a 'vision' of rural China through the lens of literary and iconographic sources. The fourth chapter deals with the vernacular heritage of earthen architecture, investigated and presented through case studies in the territory, offering the occasion to reflect on issues relating to the protection and conservation of the agricultural and productive Chinese landscape. Research Results The commitment of this country to pursue a sustainable development that will necessarily have to pass the sifter of the policies of heritage protection, is an important test bed from which you can identify successful policies and perhaps growth patterns compatible with the protection of the heritage, with advantages, therefore, for both the heritage and for the community. Research Conclusion The aim of the research was to understand and highlight the special features of the agricultural and productive Chinese landscape analyzing the landscape values of the place fixing a starting point for any kind of transformation of the places.
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Kamel, Ehab. "Decoding cultural landscapes : guiding principles for the management of interpretation in cultural world heritage sites." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11845/.

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Conserving the cultural significance of heritage sites - as the guardians of social unity, place identity, and national pride - plays an essential role in maintaining sustainable social development, as well as preserving the variations identifying cultural groups and enriching the interaction between them. Consequently, and considering the importance of the built environment in communicating, as well as documenting, cultural messages, this research project, started in 2007, develops a set of guiding principles for interpretation management, as a process for conserving cultural World Heritage Sites; by maintaining and communicating their cultural significance through managing newly added architectural, urban, and landscape designs to such heritage sites. This research was mainly conducted to investigate and explain a concern regarding a gap that is increasing between people and the cultural heritage contexts they reside- particularly in Egypt- and to suggest a strategy for professionals to understand such sites from a perspective that reflects the public cognition. Adopting Grounded Theory methodology, the research develops a series of principles, which are intended to guide the process of cultural heritage conservation; through a critical analysis of current heritage conservation practices in World Heritage Sites. The research shows how they [the guiding principles] correspond to the contemporary perception of cultural heritage in literature, for which, a thorough discussion of literature, as well as critical analysis of UNESCO’s heritage conventions and ICOMOS charters are carried out. The research raises, discusses, and answers several key questions concerning heritage conservation, such as: whether UNESCO’s conventions target the right heritage or not; the conflicts appearing between heritage conservation documents (conventions and charters); whether intangible heritage can be communicated through design; and the effect of Western heritage ideology on heritage conservation practices. This is carried out through the use of interpretive discourse analysis of literature and heritage documents, and personal site observations and questionnaire surveys carried out in two main World Heritage Sites: Historic Cairo in Egypt and Liverpool city in the UK. The two case studies contributed to the understanding of the general public’s perception of cultural Heritage Sites, and how such perception is reflected in current heritage conservation practices. The thesis decodes cultural World Heritage Sites into three intersecting levels: the ‘cultural significances’ (or ‘open codes’), which represent different categories under which people perceive historic urban landscapes; the ‘cultural concepts’ (or ‘axial codes’), which are considered as the objectives of heritage conservation practice, and represent the general concepts under which cultural significances influence the heritage interpretation process; and finally, the ‘interpretation strategy tactics’, the UNCAP Strategy (or the ‘selective coding’), which are the five overarching principles guiding the interpretation management process in cultural heritage sites. This strategy, the UNCAP (Understanding people; Narrating the story; Conserving the spirit of place; Architectural engagement; and Preserving the built heritage), developed throughout this research, is intended to help heritage site managers, curators, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, developers, and decision makers to build up a thorough understanding of heritage sites, which should facilitate the establishment of more interpretive management plans for such sites, and enhance the communication of meanings and values of their physical remains, as well as emphasizing the ‘spirit of place’; for achieving socio-cultural sustainability in the development of World Heritage Sites.
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du, Plessis Pierre L. "Gathering the Kalahari| Tracking Landscapes in Motion." Thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829741.

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At a time when human environmental disturbance is challenging livability on the planet—for humans and nonhumans alike—it is important to find better methods for engaging with the liveliness of landscapes, the relations with which they hang together, and the various ways they are interrupted. This dissertation explores the practices of tracking and gathering as methods for studying such issues facing Kalahari Desert landscapes in Botswana. These ecologically important landscapes are increasingly encroached upon and fragmented by the growing cattle economy and the proliferation of extractive industries into the desert. These trends have led to dramatic declines in wildlife populations and growing desertification of the already arid region. The Kalahari is home to small communities of people, many of whom are former hunter-gatherers whose rights to land and access to wildlife are increasingly inhibited. The government has banned hunting, largely in response to conservationists’ concerns about wildlife. In addition, gathering is increasingly regulated, and cattle colonize areas that are significant for wildlife and San communities. In this context, rather than treating tracking and gathering as objects of study, I take these practices seriously as methods for noticing and theorizing more-than-human landscapes, their transformations, and contingent histories to address challenges facing people and their environments in the Kalahari and beyond.

By focusing on the relational forms of noticing landscapes with San trackers and gatherers, I describe landscapes as always in motion, emergent more-than-human places where assemblages gather, histories are made, and politics enacted. This is in direct contrast to theoretical moves that treat landscapes as background on which histories and politics occur. My dissertation enacts tracking and gathering as a methodology. Beginning with an extension of the concept of tracks and following their movements out to their relations with other landscape actors in each chapter, I emphasize that landscapes are not merely contexts for politics and histories. Rather, landscapes do histories and politics, in spite of efforts to hold these landscapes still as underutilized expanses of resources.

The dissertation itself unfolds, moving out through the landscape by tracking these emergent relations. I argue that tracking is a relational practice of becoming-familiar-with these multiple entanglements of emergent landscapes. The practice of gathering involves much of the same kinds of attention to landscape movements and their coordinations as with tracking. Here, I employ gathering in its double meaning: the practice of collecting and of coming together. The tracks of gathered truffles then lead to the worlds of grass and termites that, in turn, allow for a reflection on Kalahari rangeland ecology and the political economy of the cattle industry. Finally, the dissertation zooms out to the desert’s geomorphology, tracking the movements of geological processes as they gather with the movements of humans and nonhumans to form lively landscape features over the longue duree. Tracking and gathering are methods that allow for an elaboration of these more-than-human landscapes-in-motion, together with their social, political, and economic histories and speculative futures.

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Tsang, Yuk-chi, and 曾玉慈. "A hill of five stations : the cultural history of a modern urban cultural landscape, the case of Broadcast Drive." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10722/208084.

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What is special about Broadcast Drive or “A Hill of Five Stations”? It is all about residential properties and some broadcasting stations! These are the statements I often heard when I told my friends of my research topic but cultural significance of a place is not subject to its age, form and size. Broadcast Drive, a ring road of about 1.1-kilometre long, was developed from a massif in the mid 1960s. Sitting on a slope in the northern part of Kowloon Peninsula, Broadcast Drive was selected for housing all four broadcasting stations, namely Radio Hong Kong (later the Radio Television Hong Kong), Redifussion Hong Kong (later the Asia Television), Television Broadcasts Limited and Commercial Radio Hong Kong in the 1960s, since then the road was informally known as “A Hill of Four Stations.” With the introduction of the fifth broadcasting station, Commercial Television, in 1975, Broadcast Drive was given a nickname, “A Hill of Five Station”. Without any comprehensive study on the street, many people in Hong Kong share a common false truth that the centralization of all broadcasting studios at Broadcast Drive was due to the riot of 1967, but the rich layers, unique characters and cultural significance of Broadcast Drive have been ignored. This paper is aimed at filling the research gap, revealing the history and development of the place, and more importantly, identifying the distinctive cultural characters and cultural significance of Broadcast Drive through gathering documentary evidence mainly from primary sources, such as government records and confidential correspondences among departments, newspapers, photos, plans and site surveys. This study also uncovers unexpectedly that the majority of the studios at Broadcast Drive are the works of representing local architectural firms, which adds values to this short ring road. At present, among the original six studios of the five stations at Broadcast Drive, only four remain standing. As an urban cultural site, it is vulnerable to development. To manage the potential challenges arising from the future plan of Radio Television Hong Kong and the current zoning of the studios, some recommendations have been made in this dissertation to uphold the cultural values of the place. Broadcast Drive is not just a street relating to show business, entertainment and information, it also has a close association with our cultural heritage.
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Mattsson, Joar. "Productive landscapes and the cultural historical environment : Prototyping a small-scale productive system utilizing the immediate landscape." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-160022.

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The thesis is an investigation of global exploitation of nature, use of productive landscapes and itsremaining structures as the cultural historical environment. The further aim has been to seek analternative approach against a large-scale utilization of the environment through an elaborativeprocess of an architectural intervention, combining public space and local production. The thesisbackground is exploring the human activities and outcomes in exploited landscapes and is departingfrom the issue of an anthropocentric approach toward the environment. Further on, it analyzesdifferent mindset on natural resources in relation to the building of civilization and society, the ruralcontra the urban. Against the background of a linear withdrawal of resources and in the long-termlandscape productive decline, the aim is to prototype a productive infrastructure that works in acyclical manner, re-using energy and being less dependent on resources at a large-scale. Departingfrom the regional environment in Umeå and its traditional agricultural and former industrial use ofthe landscape, the intervention is tested by considering the principles of sustained life by theimmediate landscape. The aim has been to analyze and translate principles at the scale of landscape,farm and unit into a reproducible, productive infrastructure that harvest energy from recreation,cultivation, production and the condition of the topography.
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Stoffle, Richard W., Rebecca Toupal, Nathaniel O'Meara, and Jill Dumbauld. "Pipestone: A Modified Traditional Landscape." Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/301300.

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Walsh, Constance S. "Crossroads of identity and memory mapping the cultural landscape of Taylor's Bridge /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 201 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1338865781&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cutright-Smith, Elisabeth. "Mapping Ancestral Hopi Archaeological Landscapes: An Assessment of the Efficacy of GIS Analysis for Interpreting Indigenous Cultural Landscapes." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/306776.

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The Homol'ovi region of northeastern Arizona was home to a dense prehistoric population with strong, archaeologically-visible ties to the Hopi Mesas. As an ancestral Hopi residential area, this region is an important part of the Hopi cultural landscape utilized contemporarily by Hopi people for religious and resource procurement purposes. However, while previous research indicates that the Cottonwood Wash drainage formed an important component of the Homol'ovi landscape, the archaeology of the wash and its adjacent uplands is poorly understood. This research adopts a two-pronged approach to assessing the efficacy of GIS analysis for interpreting the spatial distribution of archaeological sites within the Homol'ovi landscape. The deductive approach draws on principles of cultural landscape theory to construct a descriptive model of dimensions of Hopi land use on the basis of ethnographic documentation and Hopi traditional history. This model is applied to a database composed of survey data collected from the Cottonwood Wash vicinity and data from the Homol'ovi Research Program's survey of Homolovi State Park. The model is then operationalized through GIS analysis of site distributions, and the efficacy of the model for predicting the location of different types of prehistoric land use is evaluated. The second, inductive, approach examines site distribution relative to patterns of visibility and movement in the Homol'ovi region and identifies areas for the refinement of spatial data associated with shrines and petroglyphs in the region. On the basis of this two-pronged approach, a research strategy iteratively incorporating deductive and inductive analyses, coupled with the use of participatory approaches, is recommended for future research.
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Johnson, Melanie Irene. "Keeping the faith the Catholic landscape of Harford County, Maryland /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file 11.36 Mb., 125 p, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435864.

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Hanna, Elisabet Åberg. "Sustaining identity in changing landscapes : The case of Östergarnslandet." Thesis, Högskolan på Gotland, Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-403628.

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The island of Gotland is associated with a distinctive nature, high biodiversity and a rich cultural history. However, these values have generated landscape management challenges due to shifting land use. The thesis proceeds from the peninsula of Östergarnslandet which has been recognized as one the most exposed areas to current changes. Simultaneously, Östergarnslandet has been acknowledged to sustain a traditional expression to a greater degree than other highly exposed places. By external recognition and ambition to preserve landscape values, this thesis suggests that there is a venture in altering the identity of the landscape when preserving the tangible. The purpose of this thesis was to show that safeguarding landscapes are far more than just biology but also about recognizing the people living within them. By using the methodology of the EU-horizon project RURITAGE the aim was to understand the area of research and find potential future approaches. By proceeding from Östergarnslandet, the main objective was to explore mental and factual landscapes with an aim to understand current landscape management of the area. Through this, the thesis has also aimed to answer how to safeguard landscape identity in changing landscapes. This was conducted by studying three different Nature 2000 and policy documents in relation to theoretical literature. The study suggests that there is an authorial division recognizing different values within the same landscape. At the same time, locality and the social impact is sometimes overlooked. To find sustainable approaches for safeguarding the landscape identity of Östergarnslandet, this thesis has looked at areas of recognized successful redevelopment. The areas are Southern Öland and Bråbygden. Gathered lessons were discussed in relation to the current landscape management of Östergarnslandet. In this part, two models were presented. The first model shows how transparency of the different sectors’ valuation of the landscape can be a tool to gain understanding and bridge different perception of value. The second model suggest how landscape identity can be sustained through external recognition generating pride and increased local participation.
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Hägerhäll, Caroline. "The experience of pastoral landscapes /." Alnarp : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 1999. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/1999/91-576-5724-6.pdf.

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AIMAR, FABRIZIO. "Social resilience in UNESCO cultural landscapes. Resilience and identity in response to landscape transformations: insights from case studies." Doctoral thesis, Politecnico di Torino, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/11583/2960755.

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PINTO, ROBIN LOTHROP, and ROBIN LOTHROP PINTO. "ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPES OF FORT BOWIE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE." The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/555236.

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Includes Fort Bowie National Historic Site Cultural Landscapes Inventory by Robin L. Pinto, Irene Herring, P. Annie Kirk / National Park Service Cultural Landscapes Program, Intermountain Region, Santa Fe Office / December 2000
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French, Landon. "The identification of associative cultural landscapes, eastern Georgian Bay case study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22079.pdf.

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Loeliger, Jennifer Blankenburg. "Japanese paddy field landscapes, a cross-cultural examination of scenic preferences." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ61919.pdf.

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Lewis, Larea Mae. "THE DESERT CAHUILLA: A STUDY OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES AND HISTORIC SETTLEMENTS." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/292700.

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A strong relationship exists between the Cahuilla people and their cultural landscapes. The meaning of cultural places is expressed through traditional knowledge of oral histories, place names, traditional songs, ceremonies and landscape use. Historically, the Cahuilla maintained their relationship with landscapes while incorporating new lifestyles introduced by the Spanish, Mexicans, and Americans. My thesis provides a basic model for examining historical settlements patterns and analyzing the continued traditional lifestyle and landscape by the Desert Cahuilla. Using information from published ethnographic data and traditional knowledge, I use GIS mapping to provide visual support to some hypotheses scholars have on village migrations and continued cultural landscape use. This is the first step in researching historic cultural landscape use and the information can be used in further analysis in archaeology and cultural resource use. Furthermore, this thesis will serve as a significant source in rediscovering, reconnecting, and preserving Cahuilla places.
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Alisan, Yetkin Aylin. "Community-based Mixed Method Research to Understand Rapidly Changing Cultural Landscapes." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/97322.

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Tangible and intangible heritage values of cultural landscapes are becoming lost or transforming under the threat of rapidly changing landscapes. Researcher-oriented documenting methods are missing significant meanings of landscapes for local communities. Community-based methods can reveal both tangible and intangible heritage of landscapes without missing important values for local communities. This dissertation study proposed a community-based mixed method research to reveal and document cultural heritage or other values from the perspective of local community members in the case study area of Findikli in Rize/Turkey. Findikli's cultural landscape is under the threat of rapidly changing landscape due to newly introduced agriculture practice - tea production. To reveal lost or transformed tangible and intangible heritage meanings of the Findikli's cultural landscape, multiple community-based research methods were used for collecting data from local residents as well as those with family or community connections to the area. Community workshops, individual and group interviews, and surveys gathered information on the social and cultural relationships, as well as locations of past and present agricultural activities, land uses and built structures. Analysis of family and community photographs and aerial imagery, as well as community produced land use and cognitive maps helped place these in spatial relationship to the landscape. Results of this dissertation study made contributions to case study area with a rich archive of Findikli's traditional tangible and intangible landscape elements, and to cultural landscape studies with a method of discovering traditional cultural heritage and landscape values under the threat of change and a guidance to document them with the community-based methods to increase quality and quantity of information.
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Chiang, Alice T. "Cultural Identity in Contemporary Immigrant America: Placemaking in Marginal Urban Landscapes." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377866341.

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French, Landon (Landon Madison) Carleton University Dissertation Canadian Studies. "The Identification of associative cultural landscapes; Eastern Georgian Bay case study." Ottawa, 1997.

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Ford, Rebecca. "The historical and cultural landscapes of watercress in England since 1800." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.718461.

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Scholarly works on agricultural and food history, on cultural geography and on landscape have long informed and enriched geographical thinking. However few researchers have drawn from these extensive bodies of work in order to investigate the cultural landscapes of food. This thesis aims to address that. It proposes the notion that foods can and do have cultural landscapes; landscapes that exhibit temporal changes which reflect changes occurring in the wider society. It goes on to investigate this notion through an historical case study of one particular food: watercress. Watercress itself has received little attention from geographical researchers. It was in 1997 that the distinguished scholar Joan Thirsk published Alternative Agriculture and revealed the important role that has been played by horticulture and market gardening in the history of English agriculture. However, watercress has still not been the focus of a dedicated study, despite the fact that it has long been both grown and consumed in England, with commercial cultivation of the crop beginning around 1808 in Kent. This thesis suggests that not only can watercress be said to have a cultural landscape, but also that the study of it reveals thickly textured geographies that have previously been hidden. Examination of a wide range of archival, written and pictorial sources reveals the engagements that have taken place between watercress growers and government officials, as well as the inspiration its wider associations have provided to artists and writers. Watercress emerges as a food with a rich cultural hinterland; a potent carrier of fears and desires, diseases and enterprises, dreams and salvation. It crosses the boundaries between the countryside and the city and, by so doing, reveals that those boundaries are less rigid than have traditionally been perceived.
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Fuenmayor, Ernestina R. 1979. "Cacao Haciendas in Choroní, Venezuela: Understanding and Conserving Historic Cultural Landscapes." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10729.

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xix, 171 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The Cacao Haciendas have been an important element of the Venezuelan cultural heritage since the seventeenth century, especially the haciendas in Choroni. These historic agricultural landscapes have been threatened since the decline of agriculture and the rise of the oil economy in the country, beginning in the 1930s. In Choroni, agriculture was replaced by tourism and fishing, creating a need for housing and hotels in the area that were constructed in the agricultural spaces and destroyed the landscape heritage that has lasted almost 400 years. To understand and analyze these sites, I studied three haciendas of the six remaining in Choroni, identifying the character-defining features that shaped these historic cultural landscapes and proposing a conservation plan for the remaining haciendas. The cultural landscape analysis and conservation plan are designed within the Venezuelan conservation heritage laws and the needs of the local society and culture in Choroni, building on parallel practices in the United States.
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Grunewald, Tosca Dina. "For(t)midable Landscapes : past cultural landscapes as a model to aid ecological and social healing at Fort West Village." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31629.

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Traditionally cultural landscape of the past involved a dialogue between natural system, human modifications and the value given by humans to the landscape, ultimately nurturing a healthy interaction between human and natural systems. Development pressures on remnants of these past harmonious cultural landscapes threatens the memory and therewith the future possibility of this healthy interaction. With looming exponential urban growth in African cities in the near future, it is important to learn from and protect the few past remnants that are left. The main question that was explored in the dissertation is how a degraded cultural landscape can be regenerated to establish social and ecological health. The hypothesis proposed that degraded cultural landscapes can be regenerated using principles of past cultural landscapes that can reconnect fragmented human and natural systems. A degraded cultural landscape settled against the backdrop of the Witwatersberg Ridge served as the location for the testing of the hypothesis. This site, situated near Danville and Lotus Gardens in Pretoria West is a former leprosy colony called Fort West. The aim of the dissertation was to find methods for the regeneration of the degraded cultural landscape.It was proposed that an integrated methodology be followed that brings together a site’s cultural, natural and economic ‘capital’ or latent potential. The integration of these three capitals was proposed in two ways: through applying five principles of ecological design as set out by Van der Ryn and Cowan (1996); and by raising awareness and educating society and the community as proposed by Farina (2000). This process delivered a set of design guidelines for degraded cultural landscapes. The approach matches biological diversity with cultural diversity, ensuring that that the ecological relevance of a cultural landscape and its capacity to inform and guide other human activities are met. The design intervention was applied at three different scales: framework, master plan and sketch plan. Interventions are proposed at each scale that can improve the natural and social health of Fort West. The cultural, natural and economic capital of the site is harnessed by reconnecting past and existing potential in these three fields and integrating proposed natural and cultural systems in this way. Education and awareness is at the forefront of all proposed interventions. In this way a public space that facilitates the reintroduction of biodiversity and also assists in the regeneration of the Fort West community can be established.
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Camenzuli, Louise Kathleen. "The protection and conservation of world heritage cultural landscapes : an analysis of the nature-culture continuum." Phd thesis, Faculty of Law, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8920.

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Stoffle, Richard W., Vlack Kathleen Van, Alex Carroll, Fletcher Chmara-Huff, and Aja Martinez. "Yanawant: Paiute Places and Landscapes in the Arizona Strip Volume One of the Arizona Strip Landscapes and Place Name Study." Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/271216.

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This report is the product of a study funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) entitled, The Arizona Strip Cultural Landscape and Place Name Study. The study has five main objectives: (1) to provide an overview of American Indian Cultural Landscapes and their relevance for federal agency practices, (2) to describe the ethnographic, historic, and cultural bases for Southern Paiute communities’ access to particular sites within the Arizona Strip, (3) to identify Southern Paiute place names, trails, and stories associated with selected cultural landscape sites within the Arizona Strip, (4) to include descriptions of the cultural significance of natural resources and physical environmental features at selected cultural landscape sites, and (5) to determine the need for future studies based on gaps identified in the historic and ethnographic record. The study is intended to serve as a foundation for identifying and managing Native American resources, cultural sites and cultural landscapes on the Arizona Strip. This report is focused on direct interviews with Southern Paiute people at places in the Arizona Strip. These locations were chosen to represent kinds of places that are culturally significant to Southern Paiute people. These include rock art sites, archaeology sites, springs, rivers, canyons, mountains, lava flows, and areas with special vistas. These places were chosen by representatives of the involved tribes, Arizona Strip BLM staff, and the project director at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. This is a first study of its kind funded by the Arizona Strip and so a study goal was to see what kinds of contemporary cultural importance would be assigned by Indian people to kinds of places. It was thus impossible to go to all places of cultural significance in the Arizona Strip so the study lays a foundation for more comprehensive studies in the future.
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Nel, Stephanie. "Reformation Landscape." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63646.

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The Berlin Mission Station, Botshabelo, situated nearby the town of Middelburg in Mpumalanga presents a multi-cultural landscape that is emblematic of the complex questions facing heritage sites in South Africa today. Botshabelo mission station is a historically, physically and culturally layered landscape with a shared heritage and an assemblage of narratives. The following dissertation examines the two cultures that influenced the establishment of the mission station, namely the local African cultures and the German missionaries of the 19th Century, and their relationship with the landscape. The embedded layers of meaning and heritage within Botshabelo’s landscape relating to these cultures were translated into a contemporary landscape design with the aim of reviving the neglected historic site.
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Beare, Zachary Askari Kaveh. "Prime real estate : landscape, geography, and cultural anxieties in three western melodramas /." Online version, 2010. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=347&CISOBOX=1&REC=14.

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Lu, Yueh-E. "Urban waterfronts as cultural landscapes : a study in conservation in modern Taiwan." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520760.

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Tachibana, Setsu. "Travel, plants and cross-cultural landscapes : British representation of Japan, 1860-1914." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.326661.

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Erickson, Helen Breslich. "The Factor of Time in the Analysis and Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/263192.

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Cultural landscapes - artifacts that display the combined work of man and nature - exist in time. Therefore their evaluation, analysis and interpretation must take place within the context of conscious or unconscious understandings of time/space relationships. Landscape architecture professionals are often wary of the preservation of historic landscapes, sensing that a living landscape cannot be frozen in time. Heritage conservationists, working within structures initially designed to serve the built environment, sometimes question the validity of a dynamic landscape as a heritage resource. Divergent developmental histories led these two disciplines to internalize distinctive understandings of the meaning of time, giving rise in the process to conflicting yet potentially complementary conservation metrics. A discussion of these separate histories and resulting concepts of time will provide a starting point for an interdisciplinary discussion about a shared resource viewed through two contrasting temporal lenses. Case studies, examined in the context of frameworks devised by the National Park Service (NPS) for the analysis of cultural resources, suggest ways to expand the existing methodology to take conscious advantage of both of these views of time. The insights of landscape architecture offer a richer, more comprehensive view of an important heritage resource, while existing NPS structures offer a recognized means of validation and support for the conservation of cultural landscapes.
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Yang, Chen. "Representation and authenticity of historic landscapes in Australia and China." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/83479/1/Chen_Yang_Thesis.pdf.

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Histories of past communities are embedded in landscapes around the world but many are suffering from material change or neglect of their fabric. This study was aimed at discovering and representing the authentic intangible experience of two historic landscapes for conservation purposes. A 2500 year old site in Yangzhou, China and a 2000 year old site on St Helena Island in Moreton Bay were found to be managed under two culturally different regimes of authenticity. This research has contributed to challenging the notion that there is only one way to conserve authenticity in historic landscapes of the Asia Pacific.
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Magrath, Priscilla. "Moral landscapes of health governance in West Java, Indonesia." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10109027.

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The democratic decentralization of government administration in Indonesia from 1999 represents the most dramatic shift in governance in that country for decades. In this dissertation I explore how health managers in one kabupaten (regency) are responding to the new political environment. Kabupaten health managers experience decentralization as incomplete, pointing to the tendency of central government to retain control of certain health programs and budgets. At the same time they face competing demands for autonomy from puskesmas (health center) heads. Building on Scott’s (1985) idea of a “moral economy” I delve beneath the political tensions of competing autonomies to describe a moral landscape of underlying beliefs about how government ought to behave in the health sector. Through this analysis certain failures and contradictions in the decentralization process emerge, complicating the literature that presents decentralization as a move in the direction of “good governance” (Mitchell and Bossert 2010, Rondinelli and Cheema 2007, Manor 1999).

Decentralization brings to the fore the internal divisions within government, yet health workers present a united front in their engagements with the public. Under increasing pressure to achieve global public health goals such as the Millennium Development Goals, health managers engage in multiple translations in converting global health discourses into national and local health policies and in framing these policies in ways that are comprehensible and compelling to the general public. Using the lens of a “cultural theory of state” (Corrigan and Sayer 1985) I describe how health professionals and volunteers draw on local cultural forms in order to render global frameworks compatible with local moralities. I introduce the term “moral pluralism” to describe how individual health workers interrelate several moral frameworks in their health promotion work, including Islam, evidence based medicine and right to health. My conclusion is that kabupaten health managers are engaging in two balancing acts. The first is between decentralization and (re)centralization and deals with the proper way to manage health programming. The second is between global health discourses and local cultural forms and concerns the most effective way to convey public health messages in order to bring about behavior change in line with national and global public health goals. This is the first anthropological study of how government officials at different levels negotiate the process of health decentralization in the face of increasing international pressure to achieve global public health goals.

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