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Cultural Landscape

A cultural landscape is defined as the natural landscape as modified by human activities and bearing the imprint of a culture group or society; the built environment. As Carl Sauer stated, “The works of man express themselves in the cultural landscape. There may be a succession of these landscapes with a succession of cultures. They are derived in each case from the natural landscape, man expressing his place in nature as a distinct agent of modification…” The cultural landscape then is subject to change either by the development of a culture or by the replacement of cultures.
By studying the area around my house I found that the intersection of Glendora Avenue and Arrow Highway includes the elements of a business and family life. The intersection includes some various cultural identities applying to different ethnicities. First we will answer “What is cultural identity?’ By culture, we understand the wholeness and variety of all the manifestations of society on t...

Posted by: John Mayes

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