Summary literature Nature, Landscape and Heritage
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Ashworth GJ & Brian Graham (2005), "Introducton", in: G.J. Ashworth & Brian Graham (eds),
Senses of place: senses of tme, Aldershot (Ashgate), 3-12................................................................2
Sense of place, senses of tme and heritage.......................................................................................2
Intro: Landscape.................................................................................................................................3
Intro: Nature.......................................................................................................................................3
Elerie, H. & Spek, Th. The cultural biography of landscape as a tool for acton research in the
Drentsche Aa Natonal Landscape (Northern Netherlands)................................................................4
Lecture 1: heritage.............................................................................................................................7
Lecture 2a: What is nature...............................................................................................................10
Lecture 2b: Landscape Biography.....................................................................................................11
Ashworth GJ. (1991), "The evoluton of the conserved city", in: G.J. Ashworth, Heritage planning,
Groningen (GeoPers), 15-26 (chapter 2)...........................................................................................12
Antrop, M., 2005. Why landscapes of the past are important for the future. Landscape and urban
planning 70, pp. 21-34 Landscape Research.....................................................................................13
Bazelmans J, Meier D, Nieuwhof A, Spek T, Vos, P (2012).Understanding the cultural historical
value of the Wadden Sea region. The co-evoluton of environment and society in the Wadden Sea
area in the Holocene up untl early modern tmes (11,700 BC-1800 AD): An outline. Ocean &
Coastal Management 68, 114-126....................................................................................................16
Visual representaton of evoluton of the Wadden Sea area........................................................18
Lecture 3: Landscape dynamic in place & tme Layering & tme concepts.......................................19
Lowenthal, D. (2005), "Natural and cultural heritage", Internatonal Journal of Heritage Studies, 11
(1), 81-92..........................................................................................................................................21
Lecture: Culture vs Nature................................................................................................................22
Lecture: Heritage policies in the Netherlands (tmeline)..................................................................24
Jongman, R.H.G., Külvik, M. & Kristansen, I., 2004. European ecological networks and greenways.
Landscape and urban planning 68, pp. 305-319...............................................................................25
Lecture: Natural heritage policies: restoraton and eco greenways.................................................26
Koster, E.A. (2009). The “European Aeolian Sand Belt”: geoconservaton of drif sand landscapes.
Geoheritage 1 (24) 93-110................................................................................................................27
Van Steen, J.M., Pellenbarg, P.H., 2004, Water management in The Netherlands, Tijdschrif voor
Economische en Sociale Geografe, Vol 95, No. 1 P 127-129............................................................29
Van der Cammen, H. & De Klerk, L. (2012). The Selfmade Land, Culture and evoluton of Urban and
Regional Planning in the Netherlands Houten: Spectrum................................................................30
Ch. 1 A culture of order pages......................................................................................................30
Ch. 3 The Golden Age...................................................................................................................32
Ch. 5 A modern naton..................................................................................................................33
Ch. 6..............................................................................................................................................34
,Ashworth GJ & Brian Graham (2005), "Introduction", in: G.J.
Ashworth & Brian Graham (eds), Senses of place: senses of
time, Aldershot (Ashgate), 3-12.
Sense of place, senses of time and heritage
Place and time are the mediums of heritage, were it is experienced through.
Place images are user determined, polysemic and unstable through tme.
They are created by and through processes of identfcaton. Senses of place must be related to
senses of tme if only because places are in a contnuous state of becoming. The key linkage in this
process is heritage.
Heritage is more concerned with meanings than material artefacts. It is the meanings that give
value, either cultural or fnancial, to the later and explain why they have been selected from the
near infnity of the past. These demands of society change into the future, like in former soviet
countries were now the past is being reinvented to refect a new present.
Thus heritage is as much about forgetng as remembering the past.
Heritage is a contested concept and quite inevitably so. Dissonant heritage.
Dissonance is a conditon that refers to the discordance or lack of agreement and consistency as to
the meaning of heritage. Dissonance arises because of the zero-sum characteristcs of heritage, all of
which belongs to someone and logically, therefore, not to someone else.
The creaton of any heritage actvely or potentally disinherits or excludes those who do not
subscribe to, or are embraced within, the terms of meaning atending that heritage. (inclusion and
exclusion)
Heritage is contested along several diferent axes:
the temporal
the spatal
the cultural/economic
public/private
it also functons at a variety of scales in which the same objects may assume - or be atributed -
diferent meanings.
Heritage is an important concept and linked directly to that of modernist natonalism and the naton-
state and the natonal scale. As is seen in UNESCO world heritage sites that are nominated by
natonal governments.
Castells admits to the re-emergence of local and regional government as being beter placed to
'adapt to the endless variaton of global fows', but this also points to heritage being a knowledge
that is rooted in place and region.
Its narratves may communicate the local to the global network, for example through the tourism
and marketng, but they are ofen far more intensely consumed as inner-directed or materialized,
localized mnemonic structures. (as a reminder of the current structure)
,The rise of the network society does not necessarily lead to the demise of place; rather it points to a
redefniton of place at the scale of the local and the regional at the expense of the natonal.
evidently heritage follows this path and becomes more focused on the local.
Use of heritage
Heritage: is that part of the past which we select in the present for contemporary purposes, whether
they be economic or cultural (including politcal and social factors) and choose to bequeath to a
future.
Both past and future are imaginary realms that cannot be experienced in the present. The worth
atributed to these artefacts rests less in their intrinsic merit than in a complex array of
contemporary values, demands and even moralites.
Cultural uses of heritage
Heritage is simultaneously knowledge, a cultural product and a politcal resource.
Lowenthal brings forth four traits of the past:
First, its antquity conveys the respect and status of antecedence, but more important perhaps,
underpins the idea of continuity and its essentally modernist ethos of progressive, evolutonary
social development.
Secondly, societes create emblematc landscapes in which certain artefacts acquire cultural
status because they fulfl the need to connect the present to the past in an unbroken trajectory
Thirdly, the past provides a sense of termination in the sense that what happened in it has ended
Finally it ofers a sequence, allowing us to locate our lives in linear narratves that connect past,
present and future.
Lowenthal sees the use of the past as providing familiarity and guidance, enrichment and escape but
also, and more potently, validaton or legitmaton.
This later trait is partcularly associated with identty in which language, religion, ethnicity,
natonalism and shared interpretatons of the past are used to construct narratves of inclusion and
exclusion that defne communites and the ways in which they are rendered specifc and
diferentated.
The past validates the present by conveying an idea of tmeless values and unbroken narratves that
embody what are perceived as tmeless values. Thus, for example, there are archetypal natonal
landscapes, both urban and rural, which draw heavily on geographical imagery, memory and myth.
Contnuously being transformed, these encapsulate distnct home places of 'imagined communites'
Intro: Landscape
Landscape became commodifed through fa paintngs and later became critcally seen as a form or
reinstatement of power relatons (Marxist/feminist views) then Cultural turn inspected more these
aspects of landscape (the values and perceptons etc.)
Intro: Nature
Nature is ofen viewed as everything that is not human. But some say it is an social construct like
other taken for granted divisions in the world, proposed by deterministc science. Marxist see nature
as a producton factor and sign of oppression. But ANT propose another more network based view
between humans and nature as one network.
, Elerie, H. & Spek, Th. The cultural biography of landscape as
a tool for action research in the Drentsche Aa National
Landscape (Northern Netherlands).
During a fve-year research and acton programme in the Drentsche Aa Natonal Landscape,
geologists, archaeologists, historical geographers, toponymists and ecologists put the theoretcal
concept of the cultural biography of landscape into practce at a regional level.
The researchers also worked with residents, designers, policymakers and stakeholder organizatons
to develop a method of partcipatory planning that can be applied both regionally and locally.
Both the cultural biography and the partcipatory planning method were tested at a more local level
for devising development and management plans for nature conservaton areas, water systems and
micro-landscapes.
Finally, an interactve project in three villages studied the interacton between the physical, social
and mental landscape on the basis of toponyms. The interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methods
developed in the Drentsche Aa region are now applied on a broad scale in the Netherlands
Problems within modern landscape research and policy
Alienation between cultural heritage and landscape disciplines
Sectoral fragmentation of policy
Lack of participation by local residents in research and planning
Lack of collaboration between policymakers, researchers and designer
Framework
Landscape is largely seen as scenery. But according to the New Cultural Geography landscape is
highly subjectve. Landscape is more than just a certain part of land it also contains the
community and it’s traditons.
New Cultural Geography: Percepton, symbolism and ideological signifcance of landscapes were
important themes within landscapes. That makes that a landscapebiography is the progressive
interplay of forces between the richly varied material landscape and the world of ideas, meanings,
representations and memories.
In this approach, heritage is defned in a much broader sense than merely physical relics of the
past. It is also the contnual process of updatng and representng the past within the Lebenswelt.
So eforts of preserving landscape should be done with partcipaton to gain local knowledge, actvate
locals and reduce chance of oppositon.
The kind of research that fts this approach is action reseesarc:s a refectve process of progressive
problem-solving led by individuals working with others in teams or as part of a ‘community of
practce’ to improve the way they address issues and solve problems.
As designers and stakeholders, researchers work with others to propose a new course of acton to
help their community improve its work practces.
Goal and design of the Drentsche Aa research and acton programme