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- Adevi, Anna, et al.
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Preferences for Landscapes: A Matter of Cultural Determinants or Innate Reflexes that Point to Our Evolutionary Background?
- 2012
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In: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 37, s. 27-49
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Two different theories exist relating to preferences for landscapes: 1) people prefer certain types of landscape independent of their cultural and ethnic background-preferences are innate; 2) people prefer landscapes experienced during childhood regardless of their appearance owing to learned conceptions-preferences are determined by culture. Our aim was to evaluate relationships among preferences for landscapes and childhood landscapes. Results are based on a questionnaire sent out at random to 2000 people in Sweden, and on a qualitative study comprising 19 people. They show that people: i) feel more at home in the type of landscape they grew up in and more often choose to settle down in this type of landscape, even if they have moved from their childhood region; ii) prefer qualities connected to childhood landscapes. However, some of these qualities, those suggested to be innate, are more preferred than others. In conclusion, people prefer landscapes experienced during childhood, but seem to attach more easily to qualities that are suggested to have an innate significance.
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- Boda, Chad
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The politics of landscape creation in the history of development along Florida's Atlantic coast
- 2017
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In: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1469-9710 .- 0142-6397. ; 42:4, s. 361-374
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The politics of landscape production involve questions about the power to define what landscape means, who or what belongs to landscape and who or what belongs in landscape. Asserting the right to participate in landscape production and thus to help steer landscape along desirable development pathways remains a core component of landscape politics and grows in importance as many societies experience widespread citizen withdrawal from engagement in political processes. In this article, I review the history of landscape production in Florida, USA, to reveal the interrelated consequences of adjustments in political economy, administration, land use, and spatial representations for future landscape development. In particular, my analysis of the strategic contestation of undesirable development in the production of the local landscape in a small coastal community highlights the increasing need to engage strategically in the politics of landscape production in the pursuit of socially and environmentally desirable landscapes the world over.
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- Busse Nielsen, Anders
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Are Perceived Sensory Dimensions a Reliable Tool for Urban Green Space Assessment and Planning?
- 2015
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In: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 40, s. 834-854
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Environmental psychologists have developed varying methods for landscape assessment according to how it is perceived and experienced. In the Nordic countries, eight perceived sensory dimensions are increasingly being used as a methodological framework for expert assessments. These are serene, nature, rich in species, space, prospect, refuge, social and culture. Using an onsite questionnaire distributed to green space visitors in Helsingborg, Sweden, this study is the first to examine the representation of the eight sensory dimensions in different types of urban green spaces as experienced by lay people and their relationships with green space attributes. The results showed that (1) prospect then serene and space were the most common, and culture and social the least; (2) the experience of the sensory dimensions varied across the six study sites and was related to their diversity of biotopes and overall size; and (3) respondent experience of the sensory dimensions was consistent across gender, age and frequency and type of recreational use. These results grant legitimacy to the method in assessment and mapping of recreational experience of urban green space.
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- Busse Nielsen, Anders
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The representation of time: addressing a theoretical flaw in landscape architecture
- 2019
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In: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 44, s. 997-1013
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the representation of time within landscape architecture. While change is an everyday part of landscape, the lack of a theoretical framework or accepted best practice for the representation of time arguably affects landscape architecture's position in today's society, where flexibility and dynamics are key. The representation of time was explored in a 'design experiment' with landscape architecture students using the case of Hojstrup Parken. Rather than producing one optimum proposal, the experiment revealed different ways of integrating time into traditional drawing types, while new drawing types allowed other sophisticated representations. Some are of relevance for competition entries, others for technical drawings or management prescriptions, and others for user involvement. We conclude that the introduction of temporal representations in addition to spatial representations in the taxonomical system for representation could enrich understanding of the landscape, assessment of existing landscape designs, and the creation of new designs.
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- Butler, Andrew
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Dynamics of integrating landscape values in landscape character assessment: the hidden dominance of the objective outsider
- 2016
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In: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 41, s. 239-252
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- While there has been extensive research undertaken on the values which insiders attribute to landscape there is a lack of literature which looks at how planning professionals handle landscape values. In this article, I develop a framework for questioning how landscape values are taken up in landscape planning, with the aim of conceptualising what landscape values mean in practice. This is undertaken through addressing landscape assessment, more specifically analysing how landscape character assessment (LCA) represents a critical point in the framing of landscape values. Through a synthesis of research on landscape values I examine the underlying logic of the LCA documents. I conclude that the values communicated in these assessments tend to be those of ‘objective' outside experts, predominantly based on aesthetics and focusing on the physicality of landscape. This I argue leads to a questioning the legitimacy of the LCA approach.
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- Butler, Andrew, et al.
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Foraging for identity : the relationships between landscape activities and landscape identity after catastrophic landscape change
- 2019
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In: Landscape research. - : Routledge. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 44:3, s. 303-319
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this article, we deal with landscape activities in relation to changing landscape identity after a major wildfire in Sweden in 2014. The aim was to investigate the relationships between 22 landscape activities (before the fire) and 2 components (emotion and cognition) of landscape identity (before and after the fire). A total of 656 respondents living nearby the fire area participated in this study. Before the fire, a positive association was found between the activities of enjoying nature and foraging, and both components of landscape identity. This suggests that the more participants enjoyed nature and picked berries and mushrooms, the stronger their attachment to the landscape (emotion), and the more they remembered and reasoned about the landscape (cognition). Post fire, these relationships were found only between the two components of landscape identity and foraging. This implies a significant role of this type of activity for keeping alive' landscape identity.
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- Butler, Andrew, et al.
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Landscape Character Assessment as an Approach to Understanding Public Interests within the European Landscape Convention
- 2014
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In: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 39, s. 219-236
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The European Landscape Convention's (ELC) definition of landscape, "an area, as perceived by people...'', places the public central to any understanding of landscape. This paper argues for 'just' involvement of the public and looks at how the focus of landscape as a perceived entity has been taken up within Landscape Character Assessment (LCA), an approach applied in England and Scotland for implementing the ELC. Based on a conceptual framework grounded in perception as a phenomenological experience of landscape and informed by principles of participation, LCAs from 2007 to 2011 have been assessed as to how public involvement has been considered. The results show that only a quarter of all assessments accessed involved the public, and that among these there is great disparity in the degree to which the public is engaged.
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- Butler, Andrew, et al.
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Landscape identity, before and after a forest fire
- 2018
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In: Landscape research. - : Routledge. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 43:6, s. 878-889
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Our identity is tied to where we are and how we engage with the landscapes in which we find ourselves. But what happens if the landscape which we use for our everyday life is drastically altered by a catastrophic upheaval, for example, when forest fires ravage the landscape? In this paper, interviews with individuals affected by the largest forest fire in modern Swedish history are used to exemplify our conceptualisation of how landscape identity is impacted by dramatic change. We address the phases of stability, change and progression in relation to the case. Finally, we propose that landscape identity can be utilised as a central concept for engaging with the social aspects of the impact of forest fires.
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