Hola, Thought these two reviews from H-Urban offer some food for thought regarding landscapes-- Saludos, Ellen Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:07:54 -0000 From:...
Since the question of landscape experience is being discussed here, I thought I might point out that, as far as I know, the first systematic attempt in this...
Further to my Post # 144 : Outside Appleton's approach I noted in that Post, there seems to be an scarcity of theoretical approaches dealing specifically with...
Following up my earlier Post # 146 commenting on Veikko Rantalla's paper on The Environmental Experience. Another quote: " The problem of the nature of the...
Greetings to everyone! Our exchange of views seems to have gone into a long pause (perhaps the result of prolonged New Year's hangovers?). I'd like to reopen...
Thanks Jorge for refreshing our memories on the topic we are suposed to be discussing. Posts here are so spaced in time that sometime one forgets what is all...
In his last Post Jorge proposed the sequence: landscape situation, aesthesis (perception), encounter, experience…appreciation. It appears of interest to...
In his last Post Horatio W. proposed to explore several terms related to Landscape Appreciation through the use of Minsky's frames. I quite agree with him in...
Reporting on a new addition to our Landscape Appreciation website: an essay by Prof. David Russell (University of Western Sidney ) titled A Psychological...
Shortly after reading Russell's excellent Essay, and hence having it fresh on my mind, I happened to drive by the Elah valley. This is the 'place' where the...
Suzanne Langer, (in her classic book Feeling and Form, 1953) proposes the notion of ethnic domain thus:" As scene is the basic abstraction of pictorial art,...
In connection with Prof. Russell's motivating Essay , I thought of bringing-in the topic of Episodic Memory. Quoting Russell: "For the imagination to engage...
Eddington in his Post #155 introduced the subject of Episodic Memory. I agree with him in that Tulving's model may be a bit too crude to account for most of...
If I can be excused for disgressing from Episodic Memory…There is another angle to this thing of Landscapes of Childhood you are discussing: "sense of...
Yes Tittivulus - wonder is wonderful! As Diane Ackerman put it in Rarest of the Rare: "Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck...
Hi, I have been busy finishing PhD and have not responded for some time, however the sense of wonder is a major interest of mine, indeed I wrote the 2002 book...
To H. Washington: I read your book some years ago; I must say I enjoyed it very much. Regarding the point you make in your Post " and to teach children in...
This place has been pretty silent for quite some time; seems to happen to us every Summer. Now, with Autumn well on his way, I hope we'll renew our exchanges...
I have been reading lately another of Jeff Malpas books: "Heidegger's Topology" , "Being, Place, World" (MIT Press, 2006) I'm not qualified to write here a...
There appears to be a number of different senses of sense of place or of landscape. Of these, I'd like to quote three: a philosophical sense, a (social)...
In the last Post HWillburn writes about the various senses of the sense of landscape . Regarding the (Human) Geographic sense, I'd like to draw attention to...
In my last Post ( #163) I mentioned three different senses for sense of place/landscape. I selected those three, among many others, because of their importance...
There have been several Posts dealing with sense of place or of landscape, bot no one appears to have mentioned a definition of the terms. Shouldn't we specify...
Eddington7 in Post #164 writes: There have been several Posts dealing with sense of place or of landscape, bot no one appears to have mentioned a definition of...
I've been reading lately a very interesting book "The Image of the City" by Kevin Lynch; (MIT Press, 1996). Although intended primarily for city planners or...
Continuing my latest Post on Lynch's "Image of the City" : perhaps it'd be better if I quote and then proceed to comment on its relevance to landscapes. " An...
Yet another concept devised by Kevin Lynch: Imageability. The term relates to the attributes of identity and structure in a mental image which were discussed...
As said, Kevin's Lynch's Imageability has merited considerable attention in the field of Landscape Studies. From all those I'd like to dwell, because of its...
Continuing with the concept of Imageability in the sense ascribed to it by Tveit, Ode & Fry (see ref. in Post #171): The authors define imageability as: ...
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