Dissertations / Theses: 'Landscape and nature'

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von, Wiedersperg Carolina Sophie. "Kyoto art in nature habitat /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/von_wiedersperg/von_WiederspergC0509.pdf.

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The purpose of this thesis is to find architectural solutions which apply the theoretical findings centered around the biophilia hypothesis. The principles resulting from this investigation should help architecture to soften the separated conditions of the natural and the man-made environment. The application of these principles will then result in the design development of an Art in Nature Habitat in Kyoto, Japan.

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Yerolymbos, Yiorgis. "Third nature : representing the human-altered landscape." Thesis, University of Derby, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.443575.

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Rude, Warno P. "Urban landscape unfolding the landscape /." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2006. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-03132007-171421.

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Crossley, Matthew James. "Fitness landscape-based analysis of nature-inspired algorithms." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2014. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/47/.

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As the number of nature-inspired algorithms increases so does the need to characterise these algorithms. A rigorous process to characterise algorithms helps practitioners decide which algorithms may offer a good fit for their given problem. One approach is to relate the characteristics of a problem's associated fitness landscape with the performance of an algorithm. The aim of this thesis is to capitalise on the notion of fitness landscape characteristics as a technique for analysing algorithm performance, and to provide a novel algorithm- and problem-independent methodology that can be used to present the strengths and weaknesses of an algorithm. The methodology was tested by developing a portfolio of six nature-inspired algorithms commonly used to solve continuous optimisation problems. This portfolio includes the performance of these algorithms with parameters both “out of the box" and after they have been tuned using an automated tuning technique. Each of the algorithms shows a different “resilience" profile to the landscape characteristics, and responds differently to the tuning process. In order to provide a more practical way to utilise the portfolio an automated “ranking" methodology based on two machine learning techniques was developed. Using estimates of the fitness landscape characteristics on benchmark problems, the best algorithm to use is estimated, and compared with the actual performance of each algorithm. While results show that predicting algorithm performance is difficult, the results are promising, and show that this is an area worth exploring further. This methodology has significant advantages over the current practice of demonstrating novel algorithm performance on benchmark problems, most importantly offering a practical, generalised overview of the algorithm to a potential practitioner. Choosing to use a technique such as the one demonstrated here when presenting a novel algorithm could greatly ease the problem of algorithm selection.

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Burmeister, Marina. "Reconnecting man with nature : post industrial landscape development." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45272.

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Industries became a permanent addition to cities in the 18th century, transforming the natural landscape and influencing the people directly dependant on it, this enforces to the consumer culture we experience every day. This industrial development all over the world has disregarded apparent and non-apparent relationships that humans have within nature, resulting in the connection between humans and nature to become estranged, leaving humankind searching for identity and purpose. This study investigates the connection between humans and nature through adapting the post-industrial landscape, to ultimately establish an identity of place for human well-being. The study proposes that apparent and non-apparent relationships between humans and nature can be introduced in the post-industrial landscape through the concepts of ecosystem services and commemorative design. By commemorating the natural landscape, memories and experiences will create an appreciation for the natural landscape, strengthening the connection between humans and nature. Different ecosystem services are generated by the design to establish ecological and human well-being. The sketch plan design intervention proposes that, these apparent and non-apparent relationships between humans and nature are revealed and celebrated. The non-apparent relationships are transformed into apparent design features within the landscape to make visitors aware of their unity with nature and the services it provides them with. The design proposal creates opportunities for interaction, education and appreciation by means of food gardens, utility gardens, biodiversity gardens and experiments of spontaneous succession. The purpose of these interventions is to restore the post-industrial landscape while creating a strong cultural connection to heritage within industries and nature to reconnect humankind with their own identity as part of nature.
Dissertation (ML(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014.
Architecture
ML(Prof)
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Lambert, Raymond John. "Landscape existing with art : a study of ideas and style in John Constable's landscapes." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313592.

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Santos, Lisa Margarida Câmara. "Paisagens terapêuticas. Principios de desenho e tipos de jardins terapêuticos." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11113.

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Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
The following work focus on the importance of nature as a beneficial resource improving the patient’s welfare in health facilities. This amelioration is felt not only in patients but also benefits the employees of these facilities and the patient’s visits. For better understanding, this dissertation starts with a historical approach about therapeutic gardens and its evolution over time, making references and relations to some examples in Portugal. Secondly this work focuses on the restorative power of nature on human health, followed by some examples and case studies. It’s also referenced an approach to philosophical foundations, theories, tools and elements that have some sort of impact on health. The approach to these themes will help us understand our attraction to nature and the benefits of its presence in comparison with urban environment. This will provide the necessary groundwork for the development of a project to an outdoor space to health facility, as well as adopting the features and elements that make an outdoor space more harmonious and healthy, not only for patients but also for employees or visitors, these elements will be presented in chapter IV. After it’s presented the characteristic and elements afore mentioned and some general principals of drawing and design for health facilities which can be applied to health facilities with multiple specialities, as for health facilities that are intended only for a specific treatment with only a medical speciality. To finish the main principles that are applied in the design and conception of the therapeutic gardens, which can be extensive landscaped grounds, a courtyard, a front porch, etc. These methods are applied in order to enhance, not only our life quality but also the social interactions, the environment and the economy

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Lau, Ka-po, and 劉家寶. "The spirit of nature: integrate people to healing landscape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47312506.

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Hong Kong is facing an aging population problem in the coming years. This situation is especially appearing in the New Town such as Tseung Kwan O and Sha Tin. Therefore, healthcare facilities or healing landscape is an important design issue in the future. In the thesis, Haven of Hope Hospital is chosen to demonstrate the healing landscape design. It is a good site to provide an example of healing landscape for reference in the future. Haven of Hope Hospital is one of the hospitals in the Tseung Kwan O. It provides several different services in the local community such as Geriatrics and Rehabilitation, Pulmonary Care, Palliative Care and infirmary. These types of the service are very close to the quality of the environment. Therefore, healing landscape plays an important role in this type of hospital. At the same time, Tseung Kwan O is a new town, the main development is planning to provide more residential units now. That’s why, healthcare facilities are one of the important things for development in the future to fulfill the large amount of people. In the study, it shows that healing landscape is a medium for people to integrate the natural environment. It is a process to provide different level of healing effect to people such as stress reduction, relieving the pain and self mediation. In the thesis, relationship among the original hospital landscape, the patient character, and the types of building are found to figure out what healing landscape have to be designed. Some design concepts and theories provide suggestions and guidelines on designing the garden and choosing the plants. Some therapeutic programs can be considered to organize in the healing landscape so as to bring out the healing effect. Truthfully, the main purpose is to create a nice environment to upgrade the quality of life and overall well-being of people.
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Master of Landscape Architecture

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Hedley, Phillippa. "A new nature for exiled territories : the archaeology of beauty." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16352.

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A thing of beauty is defined by the way one apprehends it, by the reaction of and the experience it evokes in the participant. Two modes of approaching beauty are explored: the first is that of beauty being fundamental to a particular form, holding on to past idealized images; or secondly, that beauty is associated with an emotional experience or response, bound up with the senses. Integral to the design exploration of this preconception of beauty, is Ingold's dwelling perspective, that landscape is seen as an enduring record of what has been and what is left behind (1993: 59), our experiences become linked to the temporality of place. Or, alternately, our "perceptions of landscapes, influenced by the metaphors associated therewith (Spirn 1998: 24), greatly affect the way that they are experienced" (Prinsloo, 2012 a : 37), becoming the archaeology of experience. In exploring the concept of the perception of beauty in derelict quarry landscapes; the damaged site and geology is eroded, succumbing to the temporal processes. This change, the inducing of experience, is felt not only in the dramatic difference of the quarry face to that of the tenacity of the vegetation, but also a richer peculiarity : the original industrial function of place is re-imagined as a medium for biodiversity. This re-imagining of site evolves into that of 'wunderkammer' or wonder room, in which the differences between the wonders of nature and the artefacts of man can be juxtaposed. The concept of 'wunderkammer' provides a platform where ideas can be tested, making the place more capable of appearing; thus, the perception of beauty unfolds in the landscape becoming something in which we explore. The way in which the quarry retains itself, between the decay and revitalization, as a unique place is that it is an alternative to the current reality elsewhere.

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Murteira, Manuela de Jesus Baptista da Fonseca. "Alentejo feel nature." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/23683.

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O trabalho de projeto que se propõe apresentar prende-se com a aplicação prática de uma oportunidade lançada pela Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alto Alentejo, no sentido de valorizar, requalificar e potenciar antigas azinhagas, caminhos rurais e calçadas seculares localizadas, preferencialmente, em áreas protegidas ou integradas na Rede Natura 2000, existentes no distrito de Portalegre e o seu aproveitamento para rotas turísticas, de fruição e de recreio. A implementação do projeto supramunicipal Alentejo “Feel Nature” envolveu os quinze municípios do distrito de Portalegre e contribuiu para infraestruturar esta região com um conjunto de rotas pedestres de apoio a um turismo de nicho, assente no produto “Walking”. A paisagem, as vilas, as cidades, as gentes, os produtos endógenos e os eventos contribuem, hoje, para o enriquecimento do projeto e da marca Alentejo “Feel Nature”, consolidada e reconhecida por distintas entidades nacionais e estrangeiras. De facto, esta rede de percursos pedestres, alinhada com o tema Natureza, percorre espaços de serra e caminhos na peneplanície, cruza cursos de água por poldras ou segue na margem de albufeiras, passa por carvalhais, soutos, montados de azinheiras e sobreiros, pastagens naturais, estepes cerealíferas, hortas, pequenas quintas e grandes herdades. O projeto Alentejo “Feel Nature”, concretizou-se numa infraestrutura pública, de recreio ativo e desportivo, assim como numa marca que promove e valoriza a região e a paisagem, no mercado nacional e internacional; Abstract: The project work that we intend to present relates to the practical application of an opportunity launched by the Intermunicipal Community of Alto Alentejo, in the sense of valorizing, re-qualifying and strengthening old paths, rural roads and secular sidewalks, preferably located in areas protected or integrated in the Natura 2000 network, existing in the district of Portalegre and its use, for tourist routes, enjoyment and recreation. The implementation of the supramunicipal project Alentejo Feel Nature, involved the fifteen municipalities of the district of Portalegre and contributed to the infrastructure of this region with a set of pedestrian routes to support a niche tourism, based on the product Walking. The landscape, villages, towns, people, endogenous products and events contribute to the enrichment of the project and the Alentejo Feel Nature brand, consolidated and recognized by different national and foreign entities. In fact, this network of pedestrian paths, aligned with the theme Nature, travels through mountain ranges and paths in the peneplain, crosses water courses by poldras or follows on the bank of reservoirs, passes through oaks, groves, holm oaks and cork oaks, pastures cereals, orchards, small farms and large estates. The Alentejo Feel Nature project was implemented in a public infrastructure, active recreation and sports, as well as a brand that promotes and values the region and the landscape in the national and international market.

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Browne, Deborah. "PAINTING THE SUBLIME LANDSCAPE AND LEARNING TO SEE NATURE ALONG THE WAY." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4150.

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My thesis is one artist's response to the question of the relevance of landscape painting today, focusing on the communication of the idea of environmental stewardship. The process of studying nature and transferring that vision to canvas promotes greater understanding of the beauty and complexity of elements that comprise ecosystems. The artist possesses a creative impulse finding satisfaction in making artwork that expresses a love of nature as part of a larger worldview. If done well, the persuasive power of such art may be enormous. Comprised of oil paintings and written work, this thesis establishes a way of approaching both landscape painting and the natural environment. Literature pertaining to the contributions of landscape artist Frederic Church, varying aesthetic theories, nature writings, and selected contemporary artists are discussed. The focus then turns to particular landscape elements, introducing the artwork created for the thesis. The thesis concludes with the artist's purpose statement.
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Department of Liberal and Interdisciplinary Studies
Graduate Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies MA

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Vaz, de Sousa Joana. "Shape-shifting nature in a congested landscape in Guinea-Bissau." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2014. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/0b5a9e61-54fd-45f9-818d-a494204d4e3e/1/.

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Studying people and wild animals based only on their strict and present-day interactions is not enough to develop a comprehensive understanding of social constructions of animal species. People encounter other species (and other people) from within particular historical, social, ecological and economic settings. In 13 months of fieldwork, I adopted a multi-disciplinary perspective, using qualitative ethnographic tools alongside quantitative ecological and interviewing approaches to seek for an in-depth understanding that provides access to multiple views about nature and nature conservation. In southern Guinea-Bissau, space and its history, magic and religion, changes in the landscape and environment, local livelihoods and trade, as well as local relations of power for accessing resources, all shape the social and cosmological terrain of the interactions between people and other living and non-living things. On the one hand, magical territories, the role animal figures play in witchcraft, local knowledge and its management, all portray nature as part of society, both as an element and an actor in society. On the other hand, when nature conservation initiatives based on fines and fences are emphasised, the social appropriation of nature envisions people and nature as separate, even antagonistic entities that negotiate each other’s existence. Land is the most important component of livelihoods as it is tightly connected to labour allocation and knowledge exchange. Therefore, by constraining people’s access to land, nature conservation policies are largely seen as affecting local people’s ability to secure their livelihoods. Consequently, constraints and benefits bestowed by conservation are negotiated locally through complex mechanisms of storytelling, witchcraft, meetings, and protests. These all play a role in challenging standing agreements, as well as expressing social tension and marking out morality. The chimpanzee, the flagship species of Cantanhez National Park, appears as a multi-faceted character capable of shape-shifting into various forms and signifiers that challenge existing power asymmetries, including those inherent within local nature conservation.

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Walter, Martina. "Ekosystemansatsen på landskapsnivå." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1584.

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The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) promotes the Ecosystem Approach (EA). In this thesis it is analyzed how the EA approach could be applied to regional management of coastal areas in Sweden. The aim of this report is to compare management for preserving biodiversity on a landscape level in two regional coastal areas in Uppsala and Västra Götaland respectively. In Uppsala, one of the plans consists of a previous nature reserve and in Västra Götaland, a Regional landscape strategy has been established. The ecosystem approach is used as a theoretical framework in this thesis. More precisely, five EA operational guidelines have been used as analytical tools in the comparative approach adopted.

The results show that the Västra Götaland Regional landscape strategy has been most consistent with the EA framework, since it fulfills three of the five operational guidelines while Gårdsskärskusten only accomplish two of the criteria. The social aspects are more central in the landscape strategy than in Gårdskärskusten, which is the main difference between the two plans. One area of inadequacy detected in the landscape strategy was the few identified aspects on maintenance of landscape connectivity features. The Regional landscape strategy could, if established in every county in Sweden, be a way to prevent the loss of biodiversity. However the plan needs to be supported by actions where preservation and utilization are integrated in an economic context. By considering nature protection as a development opportunity in strategic planning rather than as only a cost, important steps towards a sustainable future can be taken.

För att implementera målsättningarna i FN:s Konvention om Biologisk Mångfald har en ekosystemansats (EA) antagits och en viktig ekosystemtyp i Sverige där EA kan appliceras är kuster. Syftet med examensarbetet är att, med ekosystemansatsen som analysverktyg, studera hur och varför två planer för att bevara biologisk mångfald på landskapsnivå i två regionala kustområden i Uppsala län respektive Västra Götalands län skiljer sig åt. Planen består i Uppsala län av ett tilltänkt naturreservat och i Västra Götalands län av en Regional landskapsstrategi. Uppsatsens teoretiska förankring sker i ekosystemansatsen, med fokus på dess fem vägledande punkter och metodvalet är en jämförande design. Inom ramen för den jämförande designen har sedan en innehållsanalys samt kompletterande semistrukturerade intervjuer utförts.

Resultatet visar att den Regionala landskapsstrategin i dagsläget är mer i linje med ekosystemansatsen, eftersom den uppfyller tre av fem vägledande punkter medan processen med Gårdsskärskusten enbart uppfyller två av fem vägledande punkter. I landskapsstrategin är sociala aspekter centrala och det är en förklaring till varför de olika planerna skiljer sig åt. Intressant är dock att betoningen på aktörsinvolvering verkar leda till att vissa ekologiska grundprinciper som konnektivitet i landskapet tonas ned, vilka är framträdande i processen med Gårdskärskusten. Regionala landskapsstrategier kan enligt min mening innebära ett stort steg mot att hindra förlusten av biologisk mångfald i Sverige om de uppförs i varje län. Inom landskapsstrategierna är det vidare essentiellt att skyddade områden, som exempelvis Gårdsskärskusten, också inkorporerar ett landskapsstrategitänk och i många fall innebär det att skötselåtgärder fortsätter att utföras. Svårigheten kan dock vara hur finansieringen av skötseln skall ske men där finns alternativa inkomstmöjligheter, från exempelvis naturturism och stresshantering på företag, som behöver utvecklas ytterligare.

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Haggarty, Roni Maureen. "Photo/synthesis: photography, pedagogy and place in a northern landscape /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2202.

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Schnare, Susan Elizabeth. "Sojourns in nature : the origins of the British rock garden." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13989/.

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The popularity of the rock garden is seen as a late nineteenth century phenomenon, which followed the creation of the Backhouse Nursery rock garden in York, England, in 1859, although a few earlier gardens are sometimes mentioned as isolated incidents. This thesis proposes that the rock garden evolved out of efforts to cultivate alpine and rock plants, and traces interest in their collection back to sixteenth century Europe. A terraced garden at le Jardin des Plantes, Montpellier, France, indicates that by 1598 there was interest in simulating specialized plant habitats. The earliest known rock garden was built in Orford, England, about 1767, and by the early nineteenth century, rock gardens were popular garden features, as may be seen from the numbers of articles in the horticultural press. From these published accounts, the design, construction, culture, planting, and maintenance of rock gardens are compared and studied. As proof that rock gardens were created as places to grow alpine and rock plants from the first, lists of alpine and rock plants recommended for gardens between 1789 and 1856 are analyzed. The majority of the plants on these lists were low, spreading, needed the improved drainage offered by the structure of the rock garden, and, to a lesser extent, had alpine origins. Between 1789 and 1856 the reasons for plant choice did not change significantly. This thesis explores the origins of the rock garden, studies its history, and analyzes its structure and plants to place it in context with the rest of landscape history.

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Greening, Daniel John. "Art, landscape and material : subject into media." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/299209.

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A research investigation that illustrates the development of the European landscape tradition as an unbroken interactive and material movement, through discussion of artists from Annibale Carracci (1560-1609) to Richard Long (1945 –). The contribution of each artist within their respective epoch will be used to propose that the subject of landscape has become an actual creative medium, integral to and consistent with the external Plein-Air technique. Thus, presenting a ‘creative narrative’ from the observed into the articulated that will demonstrate how the examination and representation of actual landscapes have become physically used within creative presentations. The study uses key artworks that have been inspired by landscape to show the shift from documentation into interaction with the reality of the natural world. This entails the chronology of the investigation and commences with the concept of Ideal Landscape, established by Carracci, within the late 16th century, through the development of the Plein-Air tradition and culminating with particular emphasis on European landscape artists’ and movements since 1945 that have interacted with actual sites and natural materials: from the ideal to the actual. Furthermore, the European transfer and diffusion of interactive and material based landscape methods, including drawing and painting outside, the collection of organic items and photography, passed and developed from one generation to the next, informs a body of personal creative work. This is a 50/50 co-dependent strand used to illustrate the practical and creative discourses between practitioner and landscape, involving the articulation of actual land materials, found objects and Plein-Air excursions to the drawing locations of previous practitioners’, sketchbooks and journals. The insights provided, by the personal practice and associated theoretical position, aid the evaluation, analysis and description of the evolution of the creative methods inherent in the development of subject into media, but not presently described in historical accounts, therefore, presenting a Material Chronology and thus the original contribution of knowledge for this investigation.

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Pegram, Juliette. "Baudelaire and the Rival of Nature: the Conflict Between Art and Nature in French Landscape Painting." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2012. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/163974.

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Art History
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The rise of landscape painting as a dominant genre in nineteenth century France was closely tied to the ongoing debate between Art and Nature. This conflict permeates the writings of poet and art critic Charles Baudelaire. While Baudelaire scholarship has maintained the idea of the poet as a strict anti-naturalist and proponent of the artificial, this paper offers a revision of Baudelaire's relation to nature through a close reading across his critical and poetic texts. The Paris Salon reviews of 1845, 1846 and 1859, as well as Baudelaire's Journaux Intimes , Paradis Artificiels and two poems that deal directly with the subject of landscape, are examined. The aim of this essay is to provoke new insights into the poet's complex attitudes toward nature and the art of landscape painting in France during the middle years of the nineteenth century.
Temple University--Theses

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Tatianina, Valeriia. "Blended natures. Integrating city with nature, landscapes and water. Case of Igelbäcken Kulturreservat." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297407.

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How we develop our cities not only reflects our priorities and values, but also affect the way we and future generations will experience and learn to communicate with spaces. To face the fast-changing reality of Anthropocene and find inspiration and strength to face global issues cities have to become not only spaces where we live, work and play, but also places for nature reconnection, ecological education, grounding and inspiration. Places that could show and tell why it is important to care about our local and global environments, how are they affecting everyday life and how we affect them with our lifestyle. Igelbäcken kulturreservat gives a great opportunity to explore such topics, as nature and city already have a strong presence in the area. It is a part of the green wedge and has a rich agricultural history. Meanwhile it is also a place of big infrastructural and urban development with 2 big city cores situated closely. Main aim is to explore how can urban design help in building symbiotic relationships between city and nature and enhance existing landscapes without depleting them, while operating in a very contextually saturated urban environment of Igelbäcken kulturreservat.

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Widger, Eleanore. "Visual form, visible nature : radical landscape poetry and Romantic environmental aesthetics." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/a39ef120-02b1-4080-b4f6-108c4e203abc.

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Whilst there is a strong emerging body of criticism on innovative and open form poetries, particularly from ecocritical and environmental perspectives, the related but distinct genre of radical landscape poetry receives little specific attention. Named by Harriet Tarlo, the genre is so far represented by a single anthology, The Ground Aslant, published in 2011, which includes the work of sixteen poets from around Britain. This thesis constitutes the first in-depth critical engagement with radical landscape poetry, and in attempting to unpack some of the genre's particular concerns, argues for the significance of Romanticism's influence on radical landscape poetry's treatment of the environment. I propose that radical landscape poetry warrants extensive critical attention because of its self-reflexive negotiation of visibility at a moment concerned with the ethics of representation; its attention to the land as something that is 'scaped' by acts of looking and representing, as well as its attention to environmental phenomena in their own right; and in addition, because of its interrogation of the relationship between the body and the poetic text. By re-articulating Romantic attitudes, radical landscape poetry reveals the divergences, congruities and continuities which link contemporary eco-ethical thought to earlier poetic and philosophical modes. The treatment of vision, visibility, the body and the environment in the poetry of the Wordsworths, Coleridge, and Clare, and the visual art of Blake, Turner and Friedrich, provides an instructive and illuminating context for reading radical landscape poetry. At the same time, the thematic and formal innovations of radical landscape poets provide fresh perspective on Romantic works. By positioning Romantic and radical landscape poetry in relation to contemporary phenomenological, existential and ecocritical discourses, this thesis offers new insights into both poetries, as well as advancing understandings of their relationship.

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McMahon, Catherine F. (Catherine Fae). "Between nature and artifice : The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979)." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49726.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2009.
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Cambridge in the 1960s was a locus of experimentation and research in new computing technologies -from the production of transportation models for New England to the design of war games simulating the vagaries of the terrain in Vietnam. One research group, working in the nascent field of computer cartography, was formed in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University. The Landscape Architecture Research Office (1966-1979) represented a radical departure from existing practices within the discipline. At this time, NASA was making its first moves towards erecting image infrastructures in space-able to beam back streams of pictures describing the earth in seemingly infinite detail. The instrumental extension of man into outer space served to remake an imagination of landscape; and the research office, banking on the promise held out by satellites and computers, was preparing a technological ground to receive this new vision. This thesis will examine two of their early projects, the first a study that utilizes a computer mapping program (GRID), to draw multiple disciplinary objectives, from physical geography to governance to aesthetics, into the same syntactical register-using the map as a technological armature to craft a new theory of landscape. The second project was an experimental studio run by two of LARO's researchers, Carl Steinitz and Peter Rogers, in which they attempt to simulate the function of an imagined computer system able to model all the interconnected processes of urbanization.
(cont.) Using maps and students as analogue parts they proceeded to deploy game theory to play-act the computer's operational roles. By doing this, Steinitz and Rogers sought to delimit the role of designer or architect within the mechanisms of a representational system. While the work of LARO was influential in the development of what is known as GIS today, I wish to pull this historical episode out of the technological continuum-looking instead at this moment of profound indeterminacy and speculation over the role that technology could play in the process of design.
by Catherine F. McMahon.
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Lo, Yuk-fan Miranda. "Nature reserve park Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25951178.

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Saunders, Timothy. "Recovering the ground : landscape, ecology and Virgil's Eclogues." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369791.

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Fiala, Abigail L. "Nurture through nature: a comparative study between standard and nature-based play in outdoor preschool environments." Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35512.

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Master of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional & Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
Nature-based play is gaining attention in early childhood education because of the social, physical, and cognitive benefits from interacting with nature at a young age (International Play Association 2014). Some studies provide strong evidence to suggest that nature-based unstructured play can have a positive benefit on early childhood development and improve the socialization, problem solving, confidence, creativity, autonomy, and self-awareness in children as well as their physical health (Fjortoft 2004, Louv 2005). The purpose of this study is to identify differences in play behavior among preschoolers that may influence early childhood development between standard or traditional playgrounds and playgrounds designed with interaction with nature, or access to nature, and, thus, to suggest design solutions for play environment, which responds to the issues this research identifies. This is a comparative observational study on play behavior between two study settings, including nature-based and standard/traditional-play environments with nature-access . Comparative observations were conducted at the Center for Child Development (nature-based) and Hoeflin Stone House Early Childhood Center (standard) at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. Preschoolers’ play behaviors and behavior-environment interactions in both settings were compared using behavioral mapping and time-lapse observation (20 minutes per subject) techniques in which their location, activities, and interactions were recorded. Findings suggest that children in nature-based playgrounds are more likely to be physically active and creative with their play. Also, movable and manipulative play elements (“loose parts”) allow children to engage in more social activities than standard anchored playground element vs. standard playgrounds, however, allow children to explore games with rules and provide valuable development for motor and social skills. Therefore, this study suggests a design approach that is a hybrid between designed nature and standard play in a way that utilizes the positive aspects of both types of play. These findings will lead to a call for research and design into the direction of creating outdoor play environments that infuse standard play structures with natural environments.

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Ashby, Linda. "The Biocentric Landscape Architect: Designing the Public Landscape, Benefiting the Natural World." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31745.

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Owing to the authorâ s interest in and concern for earthâ s processes, healthy ecosystems, and environmental decline and devastation, this thesis examines the human â nature relationship, as it relates to landscape architecture, through spiritual, mathematical, geometrical, historical, economical, ecological, philosophical and ethical perspectives. Sustainable design and eco-revelatory design methods are also explored in order to aid in the development of a personal design ethic that defines and produces ecologically responsible works of landscape architecture. The goal is to establish a personal framework for design that results in built landscapes that are ecologically more benign, holistically more functional, and culturally more significant than standard practices.

Research methodologies include literature review, case study analysis, project site analysis, and personal interviews. Findings suggest that despite a longstanding and growing call for a more harmonious relationship between nature and anthropogenic changes on the land, the green movement remains a loosely defined alternative undercurrent. The field of landscape architecture is uniquely poised to be a leader in the sustainable revolution; this is especially true when its practitioners, researchers and theorists are dedicated to ideals and activities that bring about true ecological value. For the individual designer, the experience of developing and committing to a personal design ethic can be empowering, and can produce work that has more mettle, veracity and purpose than the designer has previously known.
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Whitney, Sarah. "Nationalizing Nature: A Critique of the English National Trust Interpretation of Stowe Landscape Garden." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1805.

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This thesis analyzes the English National Trust’s interpretation of the making and reception of Stowe Landscape Garden. Specifically, this is a critique of the Trust’s narrative of nationalism, which is overlaid by the use of romantic interpretive themes. Arguably, Stowe’s first contribution was the combination of expressions of nature through landscape with architectural and sculptural monuments of Englishness. The National Trust, however, has combined interpretations of multiple landscape gardens across a century, thus blurring its actual significance. Stowe has been lumped into a jumbled framework of anachronistic landscape commentary much based in the literature of reception. The use of receptive history as fact to define concepts like ‘Englishness’, ‘Landscape Garden’, and the ‘Picturesque’ only further aid the unsustainable development of the historical landscape. Stowe is recognized as the most extensive extant landscape garden to exemplify contributions by the first four designers in the medium: Vanbrugh, Bridgeman, Kent, and Brown. Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s place-making role in the history of English landscape, much derided by the proponents of the Picturesque, found its first expression at Stowe from 1740 to 1751. Thus, Stowe’s Brownian dominant landscape, of which the bones are still largely intact, should be used as the designated period of interpretation. In this way, the National Trust could fulfill a modern desire for connection to nature, and with greater specificity, diversity and transparency in historical accounts, expand the accessibility of ‘Englishness’ in the form the consummate national landscape garden.

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LI, HAO. "A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH AND ANCIENT CHINESE GARDEN DESIGN." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin975339478.

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Han, Feng. "The Chinese view of nature : tourism in China's scenic and historic interest areas." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16480/1/Feng_Han_Thesis.pdf.

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Tourism has greatly increased world wide in recent decades, especially in China. Nature-dominated Scenic and Historic Interest Areas, representative of the Chinese philosophy of the 'oneness of nature and human beings', are the most popular tourism destinations in China. Tourism impacts in these areas have been receiving the attention of heritage landscape conservation. Management actions have largely been determined with an emphasis on natural values. This thesis maintains that values relating to nature are socially and culturally constructed, and that they dynamically change through history. By investigating the social and cultural structures underpinning values related to nature, a macro-history method has been applied to explore the traditional Chinese View of nature from traditional Chinese philosophies and landscape cultures. An instrumental case study method has been applied to explore the contemporary Chinese values of nature. The relationships between traditional values and contemporary values have been identified. It was found that the traditional Chinese values still have a profound influence today, although many aspects have been distorted. Historic high culture in natural areas has been replaced by mass tourism culture and Western values. The research also found that today's values are more socially and politically contested. It has been revealed that there are deep social, cultural, economic and political roots underlying heritage conservation management actions. Changing and contested values have been interpreted from these perspectives. The values inherent in the Chinese View of nature, such as holistic philosophical perspectives, sophisticated Chinese landscape languages, and evolving living landscapes, have been identified. The contributions of these values to relevant theories of environmental philosophy, cultural landscape, national park tourism and heritage conservation have been identified by this research. The implications for multi-cultural dialogues in heritage landscape conservation have been addressed.

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Han, Feng. "The Chinese view of nature : tourism in China's scenic and historic interest areas." Queensland University of Technology, 2006. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16480/.

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Tourism has greatly increased world wide in recent decades, especially in China. Nature-dominated Scenic and Historic Interest Areas, representative of the Chinese philosophy of the 'oneness of nature and human beings', are the most popular tourism destinations in China. Tourism impacts in these areas have been receiving the attention of heritage landscape conservation. Management actions have largely been determined with an emphasis on natural values. This thesis maintains that values relating to nature are socially and culturally constructed, and that they dynamically change through history. By investigating the social and cultural structures underpinning values related to nature, a macro-history method has been applied to explore the traditional Chinese View of nature from traditional Chinese philosophies and landscape cultures. An instrumental case study method has been applied to explore the contemporary Chinese values of nature. The relationships between traditional values and contemporary values have been identified. It was found that the traditional Chinese values still have a profound influence today, although many aspects have been distorted. Historic high culture in natural areas has been replaced by mass tourism culture and Western values. The research also found that today's values are more socially and politically contested. It has been revealed that there are deep social, cultural, economic and political roots underlying heritage conservation management actions. Changing and contested values have been interpreted from these perspectives. The values inherent in the Chinese View of nature, such as holistic philosophical perspectives, sophisticated Chinese landscape languages, and evolving living landscapes, have been identified. The contributions of these values to relevant theories of environmental philosophy, cultural landscape, national park tourism and heritage conservation have been identified by this research. The implications for multi-cultural dialogues in heritage landscape conservation have been addressed.

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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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Kato, Kei. "“It’s Not Just the Built Environment”: The Performative Nature of the Cultural Landscape in Johnson Town, Japan." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1556914652450765.

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Astbury, Janice. "Inviting landscapes : resilience through engaging citizens with urban nature." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/inviting-landscapes-resilience-through-engaging-citizens-with-urban-nature(e46c8dd1-5d7c-40ef-a75e-403d682eb9e7).html.

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The role of citizens working with urban nature in making cities more resilient is under-explored and under-theorised. The social-ecological system (SES) is an appropriate concept to explore these interactions but challenges in applying it to cities have been identified. It has been suggested that there is a need to strengthen the 'social' in the SES. This thesis develops a conceptual framework that splits the social component of the SES into culture and agency and operationalises it through the concept of landscape. Previous scholarship has demonstrated that landscape is a powerful force in how people think about the world and that citizens are increasingly active in transforming urban landscapes. Using a critical realist framework, the SES is approached as an underlying mechanism that can only be apprehended through the landscapes that it produces. This directs attention to people’s experience of and responses to landscape. Three ‘layers’ of landscape are elucidated: the material landscape, the cultural landscape and responses to the landscape, drawing on the disciplines of landscape ecology, cultural geography and others concerned with environmental perception and people-environment interactions. The research surveyed citizen interaction with landscapes across North West England before focusing in on two key case studies in the city of Manchester. This analysis gave rise to development of a new concept, the Inviting Landscape, to describe landscapes that invite citizens to engage with them in ways that enhance the resilience of the underlying SES. The thesis identifies characteristics of Inviting Landscapes and links them to three stages of citizen engagement with landscapes. Potential practical applications of this characterisation of landscapes are discussed. Intellectually, the SES approach is enhanced through a deeper understanding of positive feedback mechanisms whereby landscapes influence citizen-nature interactions, which in turn impact on social-ecological resilience. The thesis concludes by making the case that attending more carefully to the role of culture and agency can strengthen the applicability of the SES approach to cities.

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Lothian, Andrew. "Landscape quality assessment of South Australia." Title page, table of contents, abstract and detailed contents only, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37804.

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The object of this thesis is to provide, through a thorough analysis of human perception and interaction with aesthetics and landscape quality, a comprehensive basis on which to develop a credible methodology for the large scale assessment of perceived landscape quality. The analysis of human perception and interaction with aesthetics and landscape quality is gained by inquiring in depth into a range of theoretical constructs from key disciplines, cultural aspects, and empirical studies covering : 1. the contribution of philosophers to aesthetics 2. the psychology of perception and colour 3. the contribution of Gestalt psychology to aesthetics 4. the psychoanalytical construct of human responses to aesthetics 5. the influence of culture on landscape preferences, tracing the changing perceptions of mountains, the portrayal of landscapes in art, and the design of parks and gardens 6. a review of over 200 surveys of landscape quality in the late 20th century, including typologies and theories of landscape quality Based on the analysis of these and the knowledge gained, an empirical study is formulated and conducted, comprising a study of landscape quality of South Australia, an area of nearly 1 million km - 1. This involves, firstly, the acquisition of data covering the delineation of landscape character regions for the State, photography of these landscapes, derivation of a set of representative slides, and rating of these by groups of participants. Secondly, these preference ratings are comprehensively analysed on the basis of the attributes of the scenes covering land form, land cover, land use, water bodies, naturalism, diversity and colour. Thirdly, the results are applied as follows: 1. a map of landscape quality of South Australia is derived 2. the results are used to predict the effect that changes in land use ( e.g. clearance of trees ) will have on landscape quality 3. the theoretical constructs of landscape quality are evaluated on the basis of the preference ratings 4. a protocol is detailed to guide the undertaking of large - scale landscape quality assessment. The thesis thus fulfils the objective of conducting a thorough analysis of human perception and interaction with, aesthetics and landscape quality, to provide a basis for developing a credible methodology for the large - scale assessment of perceived landscape quality.
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Morgan, Valery Jane. "Versions of Gilles de Rais : four perspective of an imaginary landscape." Thesis, University of Essex, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298839.

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Lacinová, Andrea. "Landscape related factors affecting urban sprawl in European cities." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13859.

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Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - UL
This thesis aims to discuss some issues related to the actual situation of suburban sprawl in Europe and focuses on the nature and landscapes. Urbanization is a main topic in EU, since cities are still growing, economy is stabilized, although it faced some challenges during the last decade and the larger part of Europe experiences a long period of time with no war or health epidemic. People have the resources to invest in new housing and in many cases they want to fulfill their dream of a house with garden. But this vision requires a lot of space usage so cities are sometimes spontaneously expanding beyond their borders and sometimes it does not even correspond to state urban policies. Urban sprawl is also a serious issue for European nature that does not have as many space alternatives as for example the USA. There are issues with coastal habitats, landscape fragmentation and loss of natural habitats. Thus, this thesis aims to find the main drivers behind urban sprawl and issues related to them. It analyzes its political, economic or social background and deducts solutions for urban sprawl repair with the help of successful projects or experience of states/cities, that suffered from urban sprawl but managed to find a way how to keep the urban development in balance. In this thesis it is a case of Norway. In practical part of this thesis, two case studies were chosen to represent characteristic problems of urban sprawl. They are from Portugal (regional level) and Czech Republic (community level). Those two cases are analyzed independently on each other and variations of solutions are found for them
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Ribeiro, Maria Eliana Jubé. "Infraestrutura verde: uma estratégia de conexão entre pessoas e lugares. Por um planejamento urbano ecológico para Goiânia." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16135/tde-31052010-150556/.

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Esta tese debate a produção do espaço urbano a partir de duas vertentes, as condições biofísicas do território e a sociedade, com a finalidade de buscar alternativas para um desenvolvimento que compatibilize meio ambiente e cultura. Assim, define os princípios e conceitos em que se fundamenta o planejamento urbano ecológico a partir de (MCHARG, Ian L., 2000), (HOUGH, Michael, 1998), (SPIRN, Anne Whiston, 1995), (SANTOS, Milton, 1996 e 1997), (PALOMO, Pedro J. Salvador, 2003), (PELLEGRINO, Paulo R. M., 1995), e (BENEDDICT, Mark A., MCMAHON, Edward T., 2006); delineia enfrentamentos distintos dos que vêm sendo propostos e que têm materializado sérios problemas ambientais, sociais e de espaços e relações humanas de segregação nas cidades; focaliza em Goiânia, uma cidade planejada, a leitura de como o meio ambiente, os projetos e as pessoas em sua vivência ordinária vão compondo uma nova paisagem; e analisa um ambiente específico, a unidade de conservação Morro do Mendanha, que permite a interpretação dos conflitos e oportunidades que podem determinar valores alternativos capazes de assegurar o equilíbrio entre desenvolvimento urbano e conservação ambiental, porque permite processos de ocupação antrópicos com preservação de características ambientais relevantes, conectando pessoas e lugares. Por fim, apresenta um projeto de Infraestrutura verde aplicado à APA do Morro do Mendanha como uma estratégia capaz de estabelecer a retomada de um desenvolvimento social autóctone e em equilíbrio com as características biofísicas do lugar.
This thesis discusses the production of urban space from two aspects, the territory biophysical conditions and the community, with the purpose of searching for alternatives of development which promotes compatibility between the environment and culture. Thus, it defines the principles and concepts on which the ecological urban planning is fundamented, based on MCHARG, Ian L. (2000), HOUGH, Michael (1998), SPIRN, Anne Whiston (1995), SANTOS, Milton (1996 e 1997), PALOMO, Pedro J. Salvador (2003), PELLEGRINO, Paulo R. M. (1995), BENEDICT, Mark A., MCMAHON, Edward T. (2006); it outlines efforts that are distinct from those which have been proposed and that have caused serious environmental and social problems, as well as segregation in the human relations in the cities; it focuses on Goiânia, a planned city, the reading of how the environment, the projects and the people, in their ordinary life, go on composing a new landscape; and it analyzes a determined environment, a unit of conservation called Mendanha Hill, allowing the interpretation of the conflicts and opportunities that may determine alternative values capable of assuring the balance between the urban development and the environmental conservation, because it allows processes of anthropic occupation with the preservation of relevant environmental characteristics, connecting people and places. Eventually, it presents a green infrastructure project applied to the APA of Mendanha Hill as a strategy capable of establishing the retaking of an autochtonous social development and in balance with the biophysical characteristics of the place.

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Johnson, Sarah Agnes. "Views in the South Seas : writing Pacific nature, culture and landscape, 1700-1775." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.605656.

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The ‘Views’ of my title signify not only picturesque landscapes, but perspectives and ideas, the viewing of positions in which their culture placed European explorers from Dampier to Cook, and the ‘views’ of exotic nature that their accounts disseminated to readers eager to know the Pacific. The thesis investigates the construction of knowledge, ‘mobilising’ the exotic visual in words. Writers’ creation of landscape by imaginatively applying culture to nature is positioned against a broader backdrop of the shifting and negotiable interactions of nature and culture revealed in their texts. Descriptive discourses discussed include Eden and ideal place tropes; the ‘English georgic’; the new languages of geology and botany; and connoisseurial aesthetics from the realm of landscape gardening. Description of the unknown is always comparative, but this acquires special resonance in an age that expected to draw the whole of nature into one system of knowledge. The chapters on cultivation, taxonomy and connoisseurship show this mindset at work in spheres whose collocation is not coincidental, given the Enlightened gentleman’s triple warrant to be man of science, connoisseur and husbandman. Though my ‘thematic’ treatment may appear synchronic, I wish to emphasis progressive ‘becoming known’. The last two chapters foreground a murky uncertainty in the minds of European voyagers that has been detachable throughout – whether in the discovery of ‘Edenic’ Tahitian infanticide, the jungle’s alarming fecundity or the delusion s inspired by scurvy. Chapter five focuses narrowly on the Easter island statues as objects-in-landscape, exposing an ‘aesthetic crisis’ provoked by indigenous claims on the realm of taste; and chapter six explores the surprising absence of fashionable sublime discourse from Pacific travel-writing, suggesting that its aetheticisation of terror is incompatible with explorers’ very real vulnerability. Cook’s death in Hawaii represented an eruption of all that was dark and uncertain about Pacific exploratory enterprises, but the earlier narratives, which concern me more, show anxiety existing in carefully contained tension with optimism. Explorers and chroniclers must work at ‘preserving themselves in the South Seas’; and this self-preservation extends to the web of cultural associations into which they attempted to draw the strange. The final chapter thus provides a different slant on the project of the whole thesis which is to explore these associations, in terms of their successes and failures as appropriative strategies; and the tentativeness often betrayed between the lines of ostensibly confident reports of a world that, becoming more known, seemed increasingly unknowable.

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Dalton, Caroline. "'Where Nature borrows dress from Vanbrook's Art' - Sir John Vanbrugh as landscape architect." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658210.

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In Letter to an Unknown Prelate of about 1560 Michelangelo wrote of architecture: 'He that hath not mastered, or doth not master the human figure, and in especial its anatomy, may never comprehend it' . His statement demonstrates the importance to Renaissance architecture of both geometrical forms based upon human proportion, founded on the work of the Roman Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (known as Vitruvius), and of a humanist aesthetic. During the English Enlightenment at the end of the seventeenth century a revival of classical science, literature and philosophy was again associated with a humanist discourse. Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) was the architect of many notable buildings of the early eighteenth century including Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Blenheim in Oxfordshire. His work as a landscape architect has, however, been neglected. This thesis argues that the landscapes surrounding most ofVanbrugh's buildings were also of his conception, and that his dramatic military gardens have concealed his synthesis of Vitruvian rules with an innate understanding of site and topography, which was strongly influenced by the writings of the Renaissance architects Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio. This theory and its consequent impact on the later work of Charles Bridgeman, is examined through the evaluation of research findings on all of the estates with which Vanbrugh was associated

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Salamy, Virginia McGrath. "Healing gardens : design guidelines for landscape architects /." Connect to this title online, 1995. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1094842637.

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Ferraz, Maíra Kahl 1986. "Relações entre a pintura de paisagem e o desenvolvimento da geomorfologia nos Estados Unidos." [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/286605.

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Orientador: Antônio Carlos Vitte
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências
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Resumo: Os métodos e os conceitos científicos são constantemente questionados e revistos, influenciados pela sociedade vigente. Desta maneira o conceito de paisagem que foi utilizado para a sistematização da geografia, também passou por mudanças em suas concepções. A princípio o termo estava muito ligado as artes e a estética, porém aos poucos foi caindo em desuso e se distanciando das ideias artísticas. Este rompimento se deu no século XIX, momento em que ocorria a fragmentação científica e, portanto, o surgimento de vários ramos acadêmicos, dentre deles a geomorfologia. Entretanto este rompimento não foi abrupto e as relações entre geomorfologia e artes perduraram durante este século. Esta pesquisa tem como objetivos reconstruir a trajetória do conceito de paisagem na ciência geográfica, mais especificamente na geomorfologia e o relacionar com os ideais artísticos. Enfatizando as ligações que houveram entre essas duas áreas, evidenciando tanto a influência da arte nos cientistas artistas que usavam a pintura de paisagem como metodologia para o desenvolvimento de suas teorias, como para os artistas cientistas que se utilizavam das novas teorias para representarem a paisagem. Dentre esses artistas selecionamos aqueles que faziam parte da Hudson River School e apresentavam em suas obras tendências científicas mais acentuadas, por terem contato com os cientistas e muitas vezes participarem de expedições de exploração aperfeiçoando seus conhecimentos científicos e os adotando em suas obras. Pois a Hudson River School que é considerada a primeira escola de arte norte americana contava com mais de vinte artistas, com diferenças entre eles, mas também semelhanças sendo a principal delas a pintura de paisagem. O recorte temporal abarcou o século XIX por ter sido o momento primordial para a formação da geomorfologia, e o recorte espacial os Estados Unidos, pois foi neste país que a geomorfologia se desenvolveu e se consolidou. Para desenvolver a releitura da gênese e do desenvolvimento da geomorfologia utilizamos a revisão bibliográfica como metodologia afim de, possibilitar novas probabilidades de interpretação da geomorfologia
Abstract: The current society had influenced the scientific methods and concepts constantly reviewed and putted in question. Therefore, the landscape concept, used to systemize geography, had also changed many of its conceptions. In the beginning, the term was linked with arts and esthetics but as time went on, it grown out of fashion and became more distant from the artistic ideas. This rupture had happened during the 20th century, time when occurred the scientific fragmentation; hence, it appeared many academic fields, among them the geomorphology. Meanwhile, this rupture was not steep and the relation between geomorphology and arts remain until this century. This research has as its objectives to rebuild the path of the landscape concept in the geography science, specifically in the geomorphology, and relates it with the artistic ideals. Highlighting the links between these two areas, showing both the influence of art on the art scientists, who used their landscape painting as methodology to develop their theories, and for the scientist artists, who used the new theories to represent the landscape. Among these artists, we have chosen those who had been part of the Hudson River School and have exposed a more pronounced scientific trend in their works. Once the Hudson River School, which is considered as the first school of art in America, used to have more than twenty artists. Those artists had many differences in the way they represent their work, but also many similarities, where the main similarity remains on the picture of landscapes. The temporal cutout encloses the 20th century, as it has been the core period for the geomorphology set up, and the spatial cutout was the United States, as it was in this country that geomorphology have developed and consolidated itself. To develop the reread of the geomorphology genesis and development we used the bibliographic review as methodology in order to enable new geomorphology interpretations possibilities
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Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial
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Siu, Pui-kei Ronnie. "'Experiencing the unexpected behavior of nature' the outdoor museum of wall trees /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B4266441X.

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Thesis (M. L. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2009.
Includes special report study entitled: 'When nature exploits man-made structures ... ' : a detailed study of wall trees in Hong Kong. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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Olsson, Erik. "Risk för kontinuitetsglapp och förlust av biologisk mångfald i Solnas ekmiljöer." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för naturgeografi och kvartärgeologi (INK), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-55518.

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Den här studien undersöker kontinuiteten, vitaliteten, exponeringen och möjliga naturvårdsåtgärder i Solnas ekmiljöer. Enligt det 16:e miljökvalitetsmålet "ett rikt växt och djurliv" ska den biologiska mångfalden bevaras och nyttjas på ett hållbart sätt för nuvarande och framtida generationer. Gamla ekar har visat sig hysa en hög biologisk mångfald, men tyvärr minskar estånden av jätteträd kontinuerligt i Sverige samtidigt som föryngringen går långsamt eller i värsta fall helt avstannat. Åsikterna om jätteekarnas minskning verkar enstämmiga och bero på kontinuitetsglapp, upphörd hävd, igenväxning, plantering av gran på gamla odlingsmarker, brist på skötsel och ny bebyggelse i urbana miljöer. Kontinuiteten studerades genom att undersöka fördelningen mellan värdefulla ekar och ekefterträdare i hela Solnaområdet samt i fyra bestämda ektrakter. Kriteriet för god kontinuitet var 15 % värdefulla ekar och 85 % ekefterträdare. För att bedöma ekarnas vitalitet studerades andelen permanent döda grenar i trädkronan och för att bedöma ekarnas exponering struderades hur stor andel av trädkronan som täcktes av omgivande trädkronor. I varken hela Solnaområdet eller i trakterna observerades god ekkontinuitet. I hela Solnaområdet mår ekefterträdarna procentuellt sett sämre i samtliga vitalitetsklasser jämfört med de värefulla ekarna. För ekarnas exponeringstillstånd över hela Solnaområdet hade ekefterträdarna samma procentuella fördelning som de värdefulla ekarna när det gällde halvöppen exponering, men utöver det var ekefterträdarna jämförelsevis sämre exponerade. En viktig naturvårdsåtgärd för ekefterträdarna är att öka deras exponering, vilket kan göras med hjälp av frihuggning, slåtterhävd eller beteshävd.

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Новиков, Д. В. "Эколого-ландшафтная организация территории в системе управления природопользованием." Thesis, Сумский государственный университет, 2013. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/30899.

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Ландшафт – одно из фундаментальных понятий современной географии и природопользования, в основе которого лежит идея о взаимосвязи и взаимообусловленности всех природных явлений земной поверхности. Главным в понимании ландшафта является не различия в терминологических определениях или толкованиях сущности некоторых аспектов, а то, что все они относятся к ландшафту как природному территориальному комплексу, как к эколого-экономической системе. При цитировании документа, используйте ссылку http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/30899

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Andersson, Harald. "The role of peri-urban nature in outdoor sports and outdoor recreation : Insights from Rudan nature reserve in Stockholm." Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-298312.

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Nature based sports and outdoor recreation activities are much appreciated, but continued densification in urban and peri-urban areas may reduce future opportunities to take part in such activities in a desirable way. To be able to consider the needs of these activities, in relation to other competing land use interests, it is essential to understand why people engage in the activities and how the nature landscape contributes and is used. The aim of this degree project is, therefore, to investigate motives and preferences among participants in various nature based activities, and to describe the role of nature and the participants’ relation to the nature landscape. While many previous studies have targeted recreational activities, where participation traditionally is non-competitive and focused on wellbeing, this study mainly targets nature based sports, where activities, in general, are more physical and result-oriented. The study has a descriptive approach where Rudan, a nature reserve in southern Stockholm, is used as a case study. There, data was primarily collected through a questionnaire (N=64), distributed among members of sport clubs in Rudan as well as among visitors on site. Responses were then analysed through cross-tabulations. The results indicate that people have varying, and often several, motives for taking part in their activities and for performing their activities in a particular setting. The results also show that the nature landscape, and the characteristics it holds, has an important role to play in many aspects; it can be a driver of motivation, a stage for the activity, and a generator of human benefits. The relatively small sample size does, however, affect the accuracy of the study, and more research is needed to get a comprehensive understanding. Nevertheless, the findings can be used to raise awareness and communicate the value of nature in nature based sports and outdoor recreation activities. Recognising nature’s multiple roles and values for participants in such activities will be necessary when analysing potential effects of future development plans or interventions in the peri-urban nature landscape.
Utomhusidrott och friluftsliv utgör uppskattade inslag i många människors vardag, men med fortsatt förtätning i städer och i stadsnära grönområden riskerar de framtida möjligheterna att delta i sådana aktiviteter att försämras. För att möta dessa aktiviteters behov, framförallt då de utsätts för konkurrens av andra samhällsintressen, är det nödvändigt att förstå grunderna för deltagande i sådana utomhusaktiviteter, samt hur naturlandskapet används och bidrar till upplevelsen. Syftet med detta examensarbete är därför att undersöka motiv och preferenser bland deltagare i olika naturrelaterade idrotts- och friluftsaktiviteter, och att därutöver beskriva naturens roll och deltagarnas relation till naturlandskapet. Då många tidigare studier har fokuserat på friluftsliv, där deltagande traditionellt sett är inriktat på rekreation och välmående, vänder sig denna studie främst mot idrottsaktiviteter, där deltagande i allmänhet är mer fysiskt och resultatinriktat. Studien har ett beskrivande tillvägagångssätt där Rudan, ett naturreservat i södra Stockholm, används som fallstudie. Flera metoder har använts, men data har främst inhämtats genom en enkätundersökning (N = 64) som besvarades av medlemmar i idrottsföreningar i Rudan samt av besökare på plats. Svaren analyserades sedan med hjälp av pivottabeller. Resultaten visar att det finns olika, och ofta flera, motiv för att delta i aktiviteterna och för att utföra aktiviteterna i ett visst område. Resultaten visar även att naturlandskapet har en viktig roll, sett ur många aspekter. Det kan vara en motiverande faktor, en arena för aktiviteten och bidra till många övriga mervärden. Då antalet respondenter i studien var relativt lågt är studiens resultat dock något osäkert, och mer omfattande undersökningar behövs för att skapa tydligare förståelse. Trots det kan resultaten i studien användas för att öka medvetenheten och tydliggöra naturens värde inom utomhusidrott och friluftsliv. Naturens många olika värden och roller för idrotts- och friluftslivsutövare bör sedan beaktas inom samhällsplaneringen i stort och vid framtida utveckling av stadsnära natur- och rekreationsområden.

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Roby, Ruth. "Imprint of a landscape a Yarrawa Brush story /." Access electronically, 2007. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/15.

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Campbell, Liam. "The Foyle River catchment landscape : connecting people, place and nature : dwelling beyond dualistic tensions." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.538952.

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Bocchetti, Carla. "Cultural geography in Homer : studies on nature and landscape in the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269540.

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Welshman, Rebecca. "Imagining archaeology : nature and landscape in the work of Thomas Hardy and Richard Jefferies." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/10921.

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Over the last two decades the potential for the combined study of literature and archaeology has been increasingly recognised. The Victorian era, which gave rise to new literary forms, and to archaeology as a science, offers a fertile area of enquiry. This thesis seeks to bring together the imaginative possibilities of archaeology and literature, conceiving their close association to be rooted in the observance and appreciation of the natural world. Focusing on the work of Thomas Hardy and Richard Jefferies, who both wrote about Wessex landscapes rich in archaeology, the thesis identifies the processes involved in the authors’ engagement with nature in archaeological settings. In 1851, Sir Daniel Wilson welcomed archaeology into the ‘circle of the sciences’, and the subject rose to popularity in the periodical press alongside rural pursuits; driven by the closing divide between town and country. Literary depictions of nature in ancient settings elevated the imaginative conception of the past, and found a receptive audience in London papers such as the Graphic and the Pall Mall Gazette, to which Hardy and Jefferies contributed. Both authors associate the mysterious qualities of prehistoric times, and the consonant sense of ‘untrodden space’, with the discovery of new subterranean territories in the self. In a society that was ‘adrift on change’, and seeking new meaning, these connections between the literary and archaeological imagination, and between the present and the past, forged at least temporary consolation. Both authors anticipated early Modern approaches to an archaeology of mind.

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Carroll, Rachel Art College of Fine Arts UNSW. "What kind of relationship with nature does art provide?" Awarded by:University of New South Wales. Art, 2007. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43308.

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The relationship with nature through art has been explored as a two fold bond. The first considers a relationship with nature via art and science, where the history and contemporary application of scientific illustration in art is explored; while the second explores past and present connections with nature via art and the landscape, particularly the panoramic tradition. Historically these relationships have predominately been about dominating nature, mans dominion over the land. Science was seen as the only authority, while our relationships with the land in art, positioned the viewer at a commanding distance above and over the land, as seen in the post colonial panoramic tradition. In contrast, -The Coorong Series- explores a lived history with nature rather than the historical role of dominance. -The Coorong Series" explores a relationship of knowledge, understanding, and the experience of nature; through two parts. The first combines art and science in -The Coorong Specimen Series', to explore the facts and knowledge that science has provided about certain plants, birds and marine life from the Coorong. Inspiration has been derived from 19thC scientific illustrations and the lyrical prints of the Coorong by Australian Artist John Olsen. Part two explores the immersive experience of the iconic landscape in ???The Coorong Landscape Series" providing a relationship that seeks to understand the functionality of the location and to celebrate the unique beauty of this diverse region. Inspiration has been gained from the landscapes by l8th and 19th C artists John Constable and Claude Monet, along with landscapes by contemporary artists, John Walker and Mandy Martin. Through aesthetic notions such as scientific illustration, panoramic landscape, immersive scale, the collection of work, an expressionistic use of paint, and labeling of each piece like a museum display. -The Coorong landscape series" provides an exploration of a region that immerses the viewer in an experience of the location. The series portrays a relationship with nature through art that educates the viewer about The Coorong region. Connections are made between the land, birds, plants, fish, and human interaction; which results in an ecological consideration of the Coorong. Ultimately it is the educational experience that art provides allowing the viewer to explore a plethora of relationships within nature, and to explore how these relationships have changed or continue to exist within this era.

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Perry, Stephen George. "The unfinished landscape fractal geometry and the aesthetics of ecological design." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/50512/1/Stephen_Perry_Thesis.pdf.

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During the late 20th century it was proposed that a design aesthetic reflecting current ecological concerns was required within the overall domain of the built environment and specifically within landscape design. To address this, some authors suggested various theoretical frameworks upon which such an aesthetic could be based. Within these frameworks there was an underlying theme that the patterns and processes of Nature may have the potential to form this aesthetic — an aesthetic based on fractal rather than Euclidean geometry. In order to understand how fractal geometry, described as the geometry of Nature, could become the referent for a design aesthetic, this research examines the mathematical concepts of fractal Geometry, and the underlying philosophical concepts behind the terms ‘Nature’ and ‘aesthetics’. The findings of this initial research meant that a new definition of Nature was required in order to overcome the barrier presented by the western philosophical Nature¯culture duality. This new definition of Nature is based on the type and use of energy. Similarly, it became clear that current usage of the term aesthetics has more in common with the term ‘style’ than with its correct philosophical meaning. The aesthetic philosophy of both art and the environment recognises different aesthetic criteria related to either the subject or the object, such as: aesthetic experience; aesthetic attitude; aesthetic value; aesthetic object; and aesthetic properties. Given these criteria, and the fact that the concept of aesthetics is still an active and ongoing philosophical discussion, this work focuses on the criteria of aesthetic properties and the aesthetic experience or response they engender. The examination of fractal geometry revealed that it is a geometry based on scale rather than on the location of a point within a three-dimensional space. This enables fractal geometry to describe the complex forms and patterns created through the processes of Wild Nature. Although fractal geometry has been used to analyse the patterns of built environments from a plan perspective, it became clear from the initial review of the literature that there was a total knowledge vacuum about the fractal properties of environments experienced every day by people as they move through them. To overcome this, 21 different landscapes that ranged from highly developed city centres to relatively untouched landscapes of Wild Nature have been analysed. Although this work shows that the fractal dimension can be used to differentiate between overall landscape forms, it also shows that by itself it cannot differentiate between all images analysed. To overcome this two further parameters based on the underlying structural geometry embedded within the landscape are discussed. These parameters are the Power Spectrum Median Amplitude and the Level of Isotropy within the Fourier Power Spectrum. Based on the detailed analysis of these parameters a greater understanding of the structural properties of landscapes has been gained. With this understanding, this research has moved the field of landscape design a step close to being able to articulate a new aesthetic for ecological design.

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Brossard, Sylvie. "Rites et lieux de l'enfance, reconstruire l'idée de nature : éléments pour une pensée sauvage de l'architecture et des paysages." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013TOU20023.

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Cette thèse procède de la genèse chez l’enfant de l'idée de nature qui induit les politiques d'aménagement du territoire, de l'espace et de protection de la nature. La première partie s'attache à rendre compte de la dimension culturelle de l'idée de nature, par une histoire de l’enseignement de la nature à l’école, par les travaux des anthropologues de la nature, et par une histoire de l'émergence de la prise en compte du contexte et du paysage dans les politiques publiques de la recherche urbaine en France depuis 50 ans. Elle se conclut par l’identification de la demande sociale de nature. La deuxième partie trace la genèse de l’idée de nature chez l’enfant, totémiste à sa naissance puis immédiatement naturaliste dès qu’il se sent aimé, et animiste lorsqu’il pense le monde comme finalisé à la satisfaction de ses désirs. Elle souligne l’importance de l’éducation et du cadre de vie sur la transformation du naturalisme enfantin en une représentation moins finaliste de l’idée de nature et suggère l’intérêt d’accompagner les fondements affectifs de la représentation du monde de l’enfant par une pratique concrète et sensorielle de l’espace. En conclusion, nous invitons dans la troisième partie les concepteurs, à parcourir ce chemin et offrir en interprète à leurs affectataires une pensée sauvage de l’architecture et des paysages pour contribuer à la reconstruction nécessaire d'une idée de nature reterritorialisée, concrète, et affectivement responsable. Cette perspective se traduit par la proposition de structuration d’un Plan National du Paysage pour construire une culture du paysage sur de nouvelles bases, en particulier esthétiques
This thesis stems from the genesis at child age of the idea of Nature, a process that induces policies for land settlement, for space planning, or for the protection of nature. The first part accounts for the cultural dimension of the idea of nature, building upon a history of how nature has been taught about at school, the work of nature anthropologists, and a history of how landscape has been taken into consideration by town planning public research policies in France in the past 50 years. The conclusion of this part identifies the social demand for nature. The second part traces the genesis of the idea of nature in the child, who is totemist at his birth, then naturalist as soon as he feels himself loved, then animist when he thinks the world as finalized for the satisfaction of his needs. This part underlines the importance of education and living environment in the process of transformation of child’s naturalism into a less finalized representation of the idea of nature, and suggests it is of interest to accompany the affective foundation of the child’s representation of the world by a concrete and sensory practical experience. In the third and conclusive part, we invite the designers to walk down the path of living a wild idea of architecture and landscape planning and share it with their beneficiaries, in order to contribute to the necessary rebuilding of an idea of nature being territory-aware, concrete, and affect-responsible. This perspective is rendered by the proposal of setting up a National Landscape Plan aiming at building the landscape culture on new foundations, in particular for aesthetics

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