TY - JOUR
T1 - The place of landscape
T2 - A conceptual framework for interpreting an American scene
AU - Schein, Richard H.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1997/12
Y1 - 1997/12
N2 - This paper presents a conceptual framework for interpreting cultural landscapes in the U.S. through the example of a residential suburb. The particular landscape is presented as the tangible, visible articulation of numerous discourses. Several examples of a "discourse materialized" in the landscape - landscape architecture, historic preservation, neighborhood associations, insurance mapping, zoning, consumption - are employed to demonstrate how the landscape at once constricts and is constructed by individuals who live in a particular place. U.S. cultural landscapes ultimately are viewed as material phenomena, reflective and symbolic of individual activity and cultural ideals, as they simultaneously are central to the constitution and reinforcement of those activities and ideals.
AB - This paper presents a conceptual framework for interpreting cultural landscapes in the U.S. through the example of a residential suburb. The particular landscape is presented as the tangible, visible articulation of numerous discourses. Several examples of a "discourse materialized" in the landscape - landscape architecture, historic preservation, neighborhood associations, insurance mapping, zoning, consumption - are employed to demonstrate how the landscape at once constricts and is constructed by individuals who live in a particular place. U.S. cultural landscapes ultimately are viewed as material phenomena, reflective and symbolic of individual activity and cultural ideals, as they simultaneously are central to the constitution and reinforcement of those activities and ideals.
KW - American cultural landscape
KW - Interpretation
KW - Social life
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U2 - 10.1111/1467-8306.00072
DO - 10.1111/1467-8306.00072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031422668
SN - 0004-5608
VL - 87
SP - 660
EP - 680
JO - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
JF - Annals of the Association of American Geographers
IS - 4
ER -