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Are there different ways of seeing the landscape?

These views of the landscape relate to how different people feel about and interpret landscapes. Individuals usually have their own perceptions of landscapes, and ideas of what they are, relating to their own experiences.

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Landscape 'views'
Why do this?

1. Roll your mouse over each example on the left to see different interpretations of the landscape appear below the picture.

2. Roll your mouse over the picture to see the alternative landscape in Kakadu. Note in your e-journal what different perspectives people might have for this new landscape.

 

 
Landscapes can be viewed as:

Kakadu
nature
habitat
artefact
system
wealth
ideology
history
place
aesthetic
(Meinig,1979)

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