Event Landscape- the New View of the People, the Time and the Place
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Key theme:
02 Functional integrity of historic urban landscapes
Date of reception:
14/11/2008
AUTHORS (*Main author)
LANLIN, Xiang
* (China)
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Peking University
BIN, Lu
(China)
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Peking University.
ABSTRACT
Taking the cultural geography point of view, by comparing the terms of historic urban landscapes, historic urban, urban landscapes, cultural
heritage, this study defines the historic urban landscapes, which concerning more about the relationship between the people and the
place. It should be composed of the physical elements and the non-physical elements integrally instead of dimidiated.
Recurring to
landcsape phenomenology, landscape is not a way of seeing, but a way of dwelling. To Ingold, landscape is taking as a `milieu of
involvment', that's the interaction of the local people to the historical urban. Because they lived in the designated space from cradle to
grave in generations, they conteracted with the space more tightly than others through their rationality, feelings and meanings. Landscape
is a part of their lives, and they are also the part of the landscape.
This study focouses on the events by analysing the text of the
interview in the local place. Events link the people, the time and the space tightly as active images to the local people. From their
statements on the practical activity, I sort them from the kind of the events, the feelings and the perceptions, then drawing the elements and
structure of the landscape in different people, at last, recuring to new cultural geography, analyze the relationship between landscape sign
and the potencial social-culture meaning. We can gain the three types in historic urban landscapes: the first is the ordinary landscapes, it
covering the people's ordinary living landscapes such as the residence, the working spaces, the commuting paths, the retails, the wells etc;
the second is the incident landscapes, where some unformal intercourses and klatch imposed on the private and group happened; the third
is the memorial landscapes, where some great public events like the ancestor and god worshipping, festival celebrating taking place, it will
take great effect on the local people. The three landscape elements established the integrity of the historic urban landscapes.
Taking
the case of the historic center in Beijing, I analyze the landscape evolvement under the local people's perception from the point of their
practical activity, try to find that under the specified cultural background and scale, historic urban landscapes show special landscape
image, and the people and the place shouldn't be separated in the conservation.
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