GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Simulacrum
4 May 2017
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Landscapes can re ect a political and/or economic system. Exclusionary: some places off limits to certain groups. Created by people as they go about their daily routines. Ones that are lived in, but also changed. Have the ability to change peoples perceptions. Where people live and work (neighbourhood, residential area) Are deliberately constructed to represent values and aspirations of social groups, with intent to project them to population. The symbolic meanings that you nd in landscape are meant to re ect those who created the meanings. Two types of symbolic landscapes: landscapes of power: elite landscapes. If you think of it as us and them, it is their place. Darrelict landscapes (abandoned or fallen apart scary. Washington"s principle points: white house, washington monument, and the congress. Can have several authors and several readers. Reading landscape: looking out for things that are missing. People do this to control this space, and then decide how space is used.
