Cultural Landscape The imprint of people on the land-how humans use, alter and manipulate the landscape to express their identity. Examples; Architecture of buildings Methods of tilling the soil Means of transportation Clothing and adornment Sights, sounds and smells of a place U of C Berkley Professor Carl Sauer is responsible for the concept of cultural landscape. Derwent Whittlesey proposed the concept of sequent occupance

The visible human imprint on the landscape. Cultural Landscape The visible human imprint on the landscape. How have people changed the landscape? What buildings, statues, and so forth have they erected? How do landscapes reflect the values of a culture? A Buddha in Thailand

- The cultural landscape is fashioned from a natural landscape by a cultural group. - Culture is the agent, the natural area the medium, the cultural landscape is the result. Under the influence of a given culture, itself changing through time, the landscape undergoes development, passing through phases, and probably reaching ultimately the end of its cycle of development. With the introduction of a different-that-is alien culture, a rejuvenation of the cultural landscape sets in, or a new landscape is superimposed on remnants of an older one. Carl Sauer, 1925

Convergence of Cultural Landscapes: The widespread distribution of businesses and products creates distinctive landscape stamps around the world. What are some other examples of businesses that can be found around the world?

Convergence of Cultural Landscapes: Diffusion of architectural forms and planning ideas around the world.

Convergence of Cultural Landscapes: Borrowing of idealized landscape images blurs place distinctiveness.-right Las Vegas, Nevada-below Toronto, Canada

Placelessness: the loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape – one place looks like the next. Rossville, Minnesota-a suburb of St. Paul-it could be anywhere in the US

House Types Kniffen’s traditional American house types: New England Mid-Atlantic Southern Tidewater

The New England “Large” house is a modern adaptation of a Yankee folk house that added a wing as the style migrated westward. It is a 2 ½ story house built around a central chimney.

The Georgian Style (1700-1800) used Renaissance inspired classical symmetry. Typically it was 2 rooms deep and 2 rooms high with end chimneys and pilasters around the door.

The “Cape Cod” style dwelling from New England features a steep roof with side gables and a symmetrical layout with the door in the center.

The Victorian or Queen Anne style of architecture was dominant in the United States from 1880 to 1900.

The Tudor Revival (1910-1940) became popular in suburban areas in the 1920s. The style is loosely based on Medieval construction.

The “bungalow” (1900-1920) was supposedly a modified version of an Indian rural vernacular form. The bungalow typically has a low-pitched roof with wide overhang eaves.

This narrow home fits easily on small city lots This narrow home fits easily on small city lots. In the Midwest this version of the “bungalow” is known as the “Chicago bungalow” style.

This “California Ranch” with all rooms on one level takes up a larger lot and has encouraged urban sprawl.

Commonly built in the 1950s and 1960s, this style of home is an good example of maladaptive diffusion since it was intended for the year round living of southern California.

Think about your local community, college campus, high school campus, neighborhood etc. Determine how your local community takes aspects of popular culture and makes it their own.

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