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- Category: Geography
- Founded: Nov 20, 2003
- Language: English
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A site intended as an informal meeting place for exchanging views about subjects relevant to the appreciation of landscapes. Members include people from the various professions connected to landscapes, as well as landscape painters and photographers and an assortment of persons with a general interest in the field. Quoting Abler, et al. (1992) C. Allen, (founder of this Group) notes: “if you incessantly rubberneck, gawk, point, explain, speculate, and argue about what you see, more or less without regard to whether it is urban or rural, physical or anthropogenic, beautiful or hideous…” you ought to be a Member of this Group.
In the front page of this site you’ll find a Message Board to post your views and also connections (left hand side panel) to relevant Links and Text Files. Under “Photos” you’ll find a number of albums with landscape paintings and photographs; this collection is intended as an “image pool” with examples that may be useful to illustrate points or arguments of your Posts.
A complementary site of this Group may be reached at
http://www.freewebs.com/jorgeg/ (not a link!copy and paste in your Favorites)
There you’ll find Essays written by members and excerpts of articles and books which may be relevant to our discussions and edited Threads from the M.B.
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In Post #224, concerning Norberg-Schulz category of complex landscapes I wrote: "On this point I am afraid I part ways with the Norberg-Schulz scheme. If most
Posted - Mon May 11, 2009 12:39 pm
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jorgeg34
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Styles and Genres
In his Post #225, Eddington7 wrote: I am sort of puzzled about how it came to be that the four types became 'styles' when N-S ideas were quoted or interpreted
Posted - Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:42 pm
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jorgeg34
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Landscape styles?
Now that we've covered all four of the Norberg-Schulz types of landscapes perhaps it is the opportunity of clarifying what sort of 'types' they are supposed to
Posted - Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:51 pm
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eddington7
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Style in Landscape: the Complex
Having reviewed the romantic, classical and cosmic landscape according to the ideas proposed by Norberg-Schulz, it is time now to present his last type: the
Posted - Sun Mar 22, 2009 9:32 pm
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jorgeg34
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Re., Hill of Tara
Tim: Perhaps the following quote will make for an added argument. Our much quoted Norberg-Schulz eloquently writes in his book Nightlands (pp.15): " …But
Posted - Sun Mar 8, 2009 8:38 pm
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jorgeg34
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