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Introduction
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We
can take the term “cultural landscape” to mean the
physical environment human beings have created through
interaction with the world around them.
At its most basic level, the cultural landscape reveals
the impact of human beings on the natural world.
On a more complicated level, however, the contemporary
cultural landscape is the product of human interaction, in
both recent past and present, with earlier versions of the
manmade environment. Conceived
of this way, we can begin to think of the world around us as
the product of historical accumulation (both accidental and
intentional). Thus
we can begin to view our environment’s appearance as an
artifact of sorts, and analyze it as such.
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