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Landscape

 
Wikipedia: Landscape (disambiguation)

Landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land.

Landscape may also refer to:

In history and culture:

  • Landscape archaeology, study of the material traces of past peoples within the context of their interactions in the wider (typically regional) social and natural environment they inhabited.
  • Landscape history, the study of the way in which mankind has changed the physical appearance of the environment - both present and past.
  • Cultural landscapes are 'combined works of nature and of man'.

In geography:

  • Landscape architecture, the art of planning, designing, and managing public and private landscapes and gardens.
  • Landscape design, the design of open space urban or rural areas
  • Landscape ecology, a subdiscipline of ecology that investigates the ecological causes and consequences of spatial pattern, process and change in landscapes
  • Landscape engineering, the technical aspect of landscape architecture
  • Landscape garden, large scale estate gardens, and is usually applied to the 18th and 19th centuries, and seen as a precursor to landscape architecture
  • Landscape manager, a person who cares for human-made or natural landscapes
  • Landscape planning, the planning of large scale and/or long term landscape development projects
  • Landscape urbanism is a theory of urbanism arguing that landscape, rather than architecture, is more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience
  • Landscape Park (Poland), a type of protected area of lesser importance than a National Park

In popular culture and the arts:

In computing:

In science:


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