Cultural
landscape studies
 
 
   

 Eastern European Land-use pattern

 Village consists of road, coppice, fields, & lake
 
Compare European to the US landscape patterns:
 

 

 Western Kansas farmland

 California aqueduct
 
Describe the differences you see between European and U.S. patterns.
What accounts for the distinguishing configurations you see in the landscape?
 
Terms
 
• coppice is the medieval term for a wood lot where trees are used for heating and lumber for building
• commons is a medieval concept for those areas near to villages, hamlets, and towns that were accessible to all for purposes of grazing cattle, collecting provisions, or other communal uses
 
• entail an inevitable part or consequence. • To have as a logically necessary consequence. Law the settlement or the inheritance of (property) over a number of generations so that ownership remains within a particular group, usually one family • archaic cause to experience or possess in a way perceived as permanent or inescapable.
Legally speaking the entail is a perpetually restricted conveyance or settlement for the inheritance of property over a number of generations so that it remains within a family or other group. • any property that is bequeathed under such (entailed) conditions.
 

culture | landscape | hearths or originating areas