Cultural Landscape
"All the built forms that cultural groups create in inhabiting the Earth- roads, agricultural fields, cities, houses, parks, gardens, commercial buildings, etc."
1. What is a cultural symbolic landscape? Does a symbolic landscape always need to be grand or powerful? Give an example of both a grand and mundane symbolic landscape.
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Symbolic landscapes are landscape elements that can be symbolical or idealogical of the area where it is. Symbolic landscapes do not always need to be grand or powerful. A grand symbolic landscape would be the churches in all of the small towns of Germany where they all are the tallest buildings in the town with simialr architecture throughout Germany. A mundane symbolic landscape would be the average American ranch house that is quite common in America.
2. What are the three principal aspects of landscape? Define each using your own words.
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The three principal aspects of landscape are settlement forms, land-divison patterns anda rchitectural styles.
Settlement forms- The spatial arrangement of buildings, roads, and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area.
Land-Division Patterns- Indicate the uses of particular parcels of land and as such reveal the way people have divided the land for economic,social, and political uses.
Architectural Styles- The architecture of an area is reflective of the culture of that area.
Settlement forms- The spatial arrangement of buildings, roads, and other features that people construct while inhabiting an area.
Land-Division Patterns- Indicate the uses of particular parcels of land and as such reveal the way people have divided the land for economic,social, and political uses.
Architectural Styles- The architecture of an area is reflective of the culture of that area.
3. Provide two examples of settlement forms. Include two document links in your response, each for a short poem about your two settlement form examples.
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An example of settlement forms would be the nucleation of New York City since all of its buildings are so close together. Another example would be the dispersion of the farming regions of Kansas.
http://blogs.cornell.edu/aitmw2012mmp84/2012/07/14/metropolitan-museum-of-art-egyptian-exhibit/
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/footnmouth/hilary1.html
http://blogs.cornell.edu/aitmw2012mmp84/2012/07/14/metropolitan-museum-of-art-egyptian-exhibit/
http://www.sovereignty.org.uk/features/footnmouth/hilary1.html
Provide an example of land-division patterns. Include a document link in your response containing song lyrics that support your example.
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An ecample of land division patterns would be the fact that outside of small towns the land is used for agricultural purposes but in the towns they are where the businesses tend to prosper.
Brooks & Dunn Lyrics
Red Dirt Road Lyrics
I was raised off of Route Three,
Out where the blacktop
ends. We'd walk to Church on Sunday
mornings, Race barefoot back to Johnson's
fence. That's where I first saw
Mary, On that roadside pickin'
blackberries. That summer I turned a corner in my
soul,
Down that red dirt
road.
It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first
car:
I tore it all to
pieces.
I learned the path to
Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on
earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to
know,
There's life at both
ends,
Of that red dirt
road
Her Daddy didn't like me
much,
In my shackled up
GTO.
Oh, I'd sneak out in the middle of the
night,
Throw rocks at her bedroom
window.
We'd turn out the
headlights,
Drive by the
moonlight.
Talk about what the future might
hold,
Down that red dirt
road.
It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first
car:
I tore it all to
pieces.
I learned the path to
Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on
earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to
know,
There's life at both
ends,
Of that red dirt
road.
Instrumental
break.
I went out into the
world,
An' I came back
in.
I lost Mary:
Oh, I got her back
again.
An' drivin' home
tonight,
Feels like I've found a long-lost
friend.
It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first
car:
I tore it all to
pieces.
I learned the path to
Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on
earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to
know,
There's life at both
ends,
Of that red dirt road.
source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/
Brooks & Dunn Lyrics
Red Dirt Road Lyrics
I was raised off of Route Three,
Out where the blacktop
ends. We'd walk to Church on Sunday
mornings, Race barefoot back to Johnson's
fence. That's where I first saw
Mary, On that roadside pickin'
blackberries. That summer I turned a corner in my
soul,
Down that red dirt
road.
It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first
car:
I tore it all to
pieces.
I learned the path to
Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on
earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to
know,
There's life at both
ends,
Of that red dirt
road
Her Daddy didn't like me
much,
In my shackled up
GTO.
Oh, I'd sneak out in the middle of the
night,
Throw rocks at her bedroom
window.
We'd turn out the
headlights,
Drive by the
moonlight.
Talk about what the future might
hold,
Down that red dirt
road.
It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first
car:
I tore it all to
pieces.
I learned the path to
Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on
earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to
know,
There's life at both
ends,
Of that red dirt
road.
Instrumental
break.
I went out into the
world,
An' I came back
in.
I lost Mary:
Oh, I got her back
again.
An' drivin' home
tonight,
Feels like I've found a long-lost
friend.
It's where I drank my first
beer.
It's where I found
Jesus.
Where I wrecked my first
car:
I tore it all to
pieces.
I learned the path to
Heaven,
Is full of sinners an'
believers.
Learned that happiness on
earth,
Ain't just for high
achievers.
I've learned; I come to
know,
There's life at both
ends,
Of that red dirt road.
source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/
The American Culture and How Architecture Reflects It
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In America the greek/roman architecture stylings in the U.S. capital reflect democracy and the style reflects America as the center of the werstern world as Greece and Rome once were.
The Turkish Architecture of the Hagia Sophia
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It shows how diverse the city of Constantinople once was when it was at the center of trade in the known world as it was influenced by the Christian architecture in the west and the Islamic architecture in the east.
The Spanish Architecture
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The architecture of Spain is greatly inspired from the Catholic religion since religion is a huge part of life there. The church towers over all else defining the landscapes surrounding it.