In Latin America, marginality is a complex phenomenon involving various geographically significant factors, including the critical, physical, social, and human aspects. Bouldering areas of cities are often excluded from infrastructural interventions and social policies. In the case of Andean...

In Latin America, marginality is a complex phenomenon involving various geographically significant factors, including the critical, physical, social, and human aspects. Bouldering areas of cities are often excluded from infrastructural interventions and social policies. In the case of Andean...

Dieser Beitrag unterbreitet einen Vorschlag zur Berücksichtigung von Atmosphären bei der Analyse der sozialen Konstruktion von Landschaften. Ausgehend von einem Überblick über Ansätze der konstruktivistischen Landschaftsforschung mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den deutschsprachigen Raum wird ein...

Dieser Beitrag unterbreitet einen Vorschlag zur Berücksichtigung von Atmosphären bei der Analyse der sozialen Konstruktion von Landschaften. Ausgehend von einem Überblick über Ansätze der konstruktivistischen Landschaftsforschung mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den deutschsprachigen Raum wird ein...

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and...

The doctrines of urban plans of the last century imposed on the territory of the city of Skopje have always insisted on a hierarchical and structured character of the city and its parts. The unattainability to establish one consistent urban model in this period leads us to a new reading of the...

The doctrines of urban plans of the last century imposed on the territory of the city of Skopje have always insisted on a hierarchical and structured character of the city and its parts. The unattainability to establish one consistent urban model in this period leads us to a new reading of the...

This Special Issue contains articles include, but not limited to, empirical, analytical, or design-oriented approaches to the following topics: Monitoring of carrying capacity and mechanisms for managing tourist flows in rural areas; Systems and tools to measure the social, economic, and...

"China's land borders, shared with fourteen other nations, are the world's longest. Like all borders, they are not just lines on a map but also spaces whose histories and futures are defined by their frontier status. An ambitious appraisal of China's borderlands, Shifting Sands takes in the full...

Purpose: This study aims to present and explore the landscape approach as an innovative management model for heritage tourism, applied to the case of the Brussels Art Nouveau heritage. The main objective of this paper is to gain insight in discrepancies regarding visions on the tourism potential...

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has had limited success in mitigating agriculture's environmental degradation. In this paper we simulate the impacts of the 2013 “greening” reform on biodiversity and ecosystem services in environmentally contrasting landscapes. We do this by...

The dissertation studies factors and attitudes influencing farmers’ behavior and societal preferences in context of pasture-based livestock production systems. The particular topics are the adoption of grazing practices from the farmers and preferences for pasture landscapes from the public...

One of the remarkable features of Mediterranean landscapes is the terraced land frame, usually supported by dry stone walling. The terraces, property division walls, pathways and traditional paths design a network compartmentalization that defines landscape identity. The informational content,...

One of the remarkable features of Mediterranean landscapes is the terraced land frame, usually supported by dry stone walling. The terraces, property division walls, pathways and traditional paths design a network compartmentalization that defines landscape identity. The informational content,...

Abstract The socio-ecological and political properties of rural and urban landscapes have been argued to produce the differentials in rural-urban health. However, the mechanism of the COVID-19 pattern in this socio-political-ecological perspective has not been understood in Africa. The study...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to critically assess how a National Government Park in Tokyo aims to commemorate the first 50 years of the Showa era (1926–1976), a time of drastic upheaval and societal change, with a naturalistic landscape. Design/methodology/approach The author...

Purpose Hospital landscape is not a useless space within hospital buildings anymore. It is considered as a supportive area providing mental and physical peace. However, the planting design of the hospital landscape and the way it should be in order to not disrupt wayfinding performance is...

Purpose Frank Lloyd Wright's famous house Fallingwater has been the subject of enduring scholarly debate centred on the allegedly clear parallels between its form and that of its surrounding natural setting. Despite these claims being repeated many times, no quantitative approach has ever been...

This book is a history of outdoor advertising control in Britain between the early-nineteenth century and the beginning of the 1960s. It considers the development of primarily legislative and governmental approaches to controlling commercial signage, billboards, posters and hoardings in rural...

This book applies an economic and environmental perspective to the history of landscape and the rural economy, highlighting their inter-connections through specific case studies. After explaining how the author made his discoveries and when they started, it analyses relations between documentary...

Part 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Strategic Locations -- Chapter 2. Sources: Artefacts -- Chapter 3. Sources: Documents -- Chapter 4. Post-war Time Shift -- Part Two: Localities -- Chapter 5. Chalk Downs -- Chapter 6. Heathland -- Chapter 7. Lot Meads -- Chapter 8. Drove Roads -- Chapter 9....

Suburban zone is an extremely conflicted area exposed to very dynamic changes. Popularity of the suburbs increases every year. The rapid increase of population density and net migration from cities to rural areas changes the spatial, aesthetic and social character of these areas. Hence, it is a...

Suburban zone is an extremely conflicted area exposed to very dynamic changes. Popularity of the suburbs increases every year. The rapid increase of population density and net migration from cities to rural areas changes the spatial, aesthetic and social character of these areas. Hence, it is a...

Purpose This study aims to analyze the visual aspects of transport tourists’ experience of mobility focusing on British cruise and coach tourists’ international travel experiences. Design/methodology/approach The qualitative data was collected using semi-structured in-depth interviews with...

Purpose This paper argues for the recognition of regional-consumers’ perceptions of growing food in the landscape. This paper aims to explore the hidden value of observed landscapes and lived “lifescapes” as unformulated brand experiences, particularly those relevant to regional meat....

Purpose Over a century of state-sponsored construction of monuments, historic mythmaking and nationalist framings of WWI has ensured that it has become notoriously difficult to present the heritage of the Great War in an inclusive and non-selective way. In this paper the authors present a...

Im Zuge der Globalisierung unterliegen territorial-politisch-kulturell eindeutige Identitätskonstrukte einem zunehmenden Erosionsprozess. Dieser Erosionsprozess des Eindeutigen betrifft auch die Verständnisse von Raum und Landschaft, aber auch deren Aneignung. Dies stellt unterschiedliche...