Regional Landscape of the United States and Canada and …

Regional landscapes reflect the cultural characteristics of their inhabitants. This can be seen in the architectural structures used in a region, and in the statues and monuments of local, national, or global significance. This is your assignment: Winston-Salem Let’s practice on other random places…

Important cities (centers of culture and trade)  Washington DC  Chicago  New York City  Los Angeles  Houston  Toronto  Montreal  Ottawa  Quebec  Vancouver, British Columbia

 Both have varied climate regions—they range from the tundra in Alaska to a tropical wet tropical wet climate in climate in Hawaii! Hawaii!

Religious places such as mosques are culturally preserved rather than destroyed because they are valuable in the Eastern culture. They are clustered in the Middle East and Indonesia where Islam is prominent. They are scattered throughout North America where people have relocated.

Churches-Christianity Churches-Christianity Just as Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and more, Christianity has ceremonies or sociofacts that need structures to celebrate these moments. This is my niece, Ava, who was baptized. Picture taken by M Stanford Scanned photo from St Teresa of Avila Church in Norristown, PA bulletin

Dwellings (homes) Roofs, change in climate, ideas…popular… 3cef9bcb1d7f Stone-Lumber-HTOURS0206-de.jpg Tin Roof above Solar panels left

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 Sharecropper home  Anne of Green Gables Canadian Farmhouse

Statutes and Monuments  Many have local, national or global significance Photo by Laurie Williams Sowby

Canada’s Parliament Building and Independence Hall Picture taken fall 2001 by M Stanford

 Soccer fields  Amusement Park Pictures taken by M Stanford

 Wheat fields  Skyscrapers  Shopping malls  Bilingual signs  Influence of automobiles (ex. Gas stations, motels, interstate highways, drive up services)

Human interaction affects the environment  Deforestation—examples are the Amazon Basin, Nepal, and Malaysia  Acid Rain—example is the Black Forest in Europe  Decreased soil fertility—Example is the Aswan High Dam in Egypt

Examples of other well know monuments  Kaaba (Mecca), Western Wall (Jerusalem), Church of the Holy Sepulcher (Jerusalem), Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Kremlin (Moscow), Statute of Liberty, Virginia State Capital building

Kaaba

Western Wall (Wailing Wall)