GEO 171 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Travel Literature, Political Ecology, Environmental Determinism

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 171
• Professor: Andrew Mitchell

Document Summary

Landscape (and various ways of defining it scene, way of seeing, morphology: as a scene or a view, a built environment/morphology, a mode of representation a way of seeing. The meaning of all seven axioms and their corollaries for reading the landscape. Axioms for reading the landscape: landscape is a clue to culture. In essence, our culture and who we are is reflected in our landscape, our "autobiography" in a visible form. The presence of items in the cultural landscape almost always reflect the culture - and they are assumed to be equal with others. Lewis uses some examples, such as the equality of the ubiquitous mcdonald"s to a architectural landmark like the. There is inherent difficulty in reading the landscape through traditional academic methods, for a number of reasons. The lack of study of the "ordinary" is due to these elements, as content, seeming to be of lesser value to scholars.