How can Local and Popular Cultures be seen in the Cultural Landscape? Chapter 4 Section 4 Text pages 117-123 How can Local and Popular Cultures be seen in the Cultural Landscape?

Cultural Landscape The visible human imprint on the landscape. Sequent Occupation - Cultural imprints of successive societies on a place, contributing to the cultural landscape How have people changed the landscape? What buildings, statues, and so forth have they erected? How do landscapes reflect the values of a culture?

Placelessness The loss of uniqueness in a cultural landscape – one place looks like the next.

Ethnocentrism Judging others by one’s own cultural standards

Convergence of Cultural Landscapes #1: Diffusion of architectural forms and planning ideas around the world.

Convergence of Cultural Landscapes #2: The widespread distribution of businesses and products creates distinctive landscape stamps around the world.

Convergence of Cultural Landscapes #3: Borrowing of idealized landscape images blurs place distinctiveness. Skyscrapers and Urban Centers Shopping Centers Highways

Global-Local interaction Global-local continuum What happens at one scale is not independent of what happens at other scales Glocalization The character of a place comes from interactions of local distinctiveness and smaller- scaled influences

House Types Kniffen’s traditional American house types New England Mid-Atlantic Southern Tidewater