Cultural Landscapes

Cultural landscapes are landscapes that have been affected, influenced,

or shaped by human involvement.

A cultural landscape can be associated with a person or event. It can be

thousands of acres or a tiny homestead. It can be a grand estate,
industrial site, park, garden, cemetery, campus, and more.

Collectively, cultural landscapes are works of art, narratives of culture,

and expressions of regional identity.

Why are cultural landscapes important?

Cultural landscapes are a legacy for everyone. These special sites reveal
aspects of our country’s origins and development as well as our evolving
relationships with the natural world. They provide scenic, economic,
ecological, social, recreational, and educational opportunities helping
communities to better understand themselves.

There are four non-mutually exclusive types of cultural

landscapes.

➢ Designed Landscapes
➢ Ethnographic Landscapes
➢ Historic Sites
➢ Vernacular Landscapes

Designed Landscapes

These are landscapes that were consciously designed or laid out by a

landscape architect, master gardener, architect, or horticulturist
according to design principles, or by an amateur gardener working in a
recognized style or tradition.

Ethnographic Landscapes

These are landscapes containing a variety of natural and cultural

resources that the associated people define as heritage resources.

Historic Sites

These are cultural landscapes significant for their

association with a historic event, activity, or person

Vernacular Landscapes

These are landscapes that evolved through use by the people whose
activities or occupancy shaped those landscapes. Through social or
cultural attitudes of an individual, family, or a community, the landscapes
reflect the physical, biological, and cultural character of those everyday
lives.

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RECREATIONAL SPACES 09 MAY 2018
What is recreation?
•Recreation represent any rational human activity that results in
pleasurable response, at any time, place or circumstances with
attendant enriching physical, intellectual or emotional benefits.

•or fun is the expenditure of time in a manner designed for therapeutic

refreshment of one's body or mind.
•sports or what people do with their free time.

Recreational spaces

•Public space is and has been an integral part of communities, serves as

a location for people to meet, relax, and exchange ideas.

•Public space states “a place where anyone can come without paying an
entrance or other fee”

•Refreshment of one's mind or body after work through activity that

amuses or stimulates; play

•Providing mental relief through spaces, environment and surroundings.

Three main types of recreational Open space:

➢ Formal youth & adult playing space

➢ Children's playing space
➢ Informal recreational open space

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BODHI TREE ASHOKA TREE BEL TREE

Sandy Soil
13%

Clay Loam
25%

Clay Soil
16%

Sandy Loam Soil

46%

SANDALWOOD TREE BANYAN TREE

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