GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Real Tennis, Machu Picchu, Air Canada Centre
20 Dec 2017
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Cultural landscapes & the geographies of popular culture. Location: refers to a particular position in space. Place: a location with some particular meaning or significance associated with it. Landscape: the visible human imprint on the land. Art class and we have to do landscape painting, people will think of a lake or forest, but that is natural environment. Urban will have skyscrapers, businesses; rural will have farms; Cultural landscape: the outcome of interactions between people (societies) and their suburban will have single family homes environments. Adapting natural environment to suit their needs. Corn eaters, rural landscape will be growing corn. All inhabited parts of the earth = cultural landscape. Everywhere inhabited has been modified culturally by the people. Many distinct cultures = different cultural landscapes. Meaning & significance => transcend the cultural group. Symbolic landscapes: symbols of a culture and what it stands for. Statue of liberty - for a long time the statue reflected an image of the.
