![]() Culture is the agent, the natural area is the medium, the cultural landscape is the result" "The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. His classic definition of a 'cultural landscape' reads as follows: Within his definition, the physical environment retains a central significance, as the medium with and through which human cultures act. Sauer was determined to stress the agency of culture as a force in shaping the visible features of the Earth's surface in delimited areas. Sauer, a human geographer, who was probably the most influential in promoting and developing the idea of cultural landscapes. The major task of geography was to trace the changes in these two landscapes. 'cultural landscape') a landscape created by human culture. original landscape) or landscape that existed before major human induced changes and the Kulturlandschaft (transl. ![]() He defined two forms of landscape: the Urlandschaft (transl. In 1908, Schlüter argued that by defining geography as a Landschaftskunde (landscape science) this would give geography a logical subject matter shared by no other discipline. Geographer Otto Schlüter is credited with having first formally used “cultural landscape” as an academic term in the early 20th century. Lands were then considered shaped by natural forces, and the unique details of such landshaffen (shaped lands) became themselves the subject of 'landscape' paintings. The word " landscape" itself combines "land" with a verb of Germanic origin, "scapjan/schaffen" to mean, literally, "shaped lands". From the 16th century onwards, many European artists painted landscapes in favor of people, diminishing the people in their paintings to figures subsumed within broader, regionally specific landscapes. The concept of 'cultural landscapes' can be found in the European tradition of landscape painting. an "associative cultural landscape" which may be valued because of the "religious, artistic or cultural associations of the natural element.".an "organically evolved landscape" which may be a " relict (or fossil) landscape" or a "continuing landscape"."a landscape designed and created intentionally by man". ![]() As defined by the World Heritage Committee, it is the "cultural properties represent the combined works of nature and of man" and falls into three main categories: Cultural landscape is a term used in the fields of geography, ecology, and heritage studies, to describe a symbiosis of human activity and environment. ![]()
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