Landscape

As my selection for an urban park, I chose Toronto’s Evergreen Brick Works – a uniquely “urban” ecosystem located in the city’s core. Formerly Toronto’s chief brick manufacturing facility, Brick Works has since been converted into a wholly committed city park, devoted to the preservation of greenspace, integration of natural ecosystems into the urban environment and educational facilitation. Among the ecosystem services, Brickworks largely focuses on supporting and cultural values in its…

INTRODUCTION A dog park is a fenced-off land that often times is next to a park, a place where dogs can run without a leash. Dog parks have become very popular throughout urban areas for the limited amount of space. In the City of El Paso there are currently three dog parks located at: West side Don Haskins Community Center, Album Park and near Esperanza Moreno Park. The goal of this paper is to approve a new dog park in the City of El Paso. DOG PARK Benefits of a dog park in the community…

In the book’s The Burnt Stick, and My Grandma lived in Gooligulch, I learned a lot about the people and animals of Australia. The reason I chose these books, is because I wanted to contrast the people and the animals. In the book The Burnt Stick, the information presented was very realistic. In the situation in the book it is told by a man who was actually taken from his family, his name is John Jagmarra. He was taken away at only the age of five. Although this story is only based on a true one,…

The painting “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” depicts a beautiful birds-eye view of the landscape. While demonstrating the working lifestyle of the seemingly middle-class individuals in focus, it also projects the vivid appearance of the area as a result of such efforts. Alone, the painting seems to be only an image of a typical day with minor concentration on the human struggling in the water. “Musée des Beaux Arts” enhances the interpretation of the painting as it reveals the details of…

However, as the book takes on earthquakes and hurricanes. They are describing how man-made objects can destroy any landscape. They are using cultural landscapes as an example in the book. When something is destroyed how people as a community come together to rebuild it. This shows how globalization came along with major cities and how it is linked. The themes they are talking about is…

Humans, by nature, characteristically modify the landscape in which they live. Through the myriad of processes and mechanisms used to alter the landscape sometimes come deliberate alterations of symbolism or meaning. The sub-dicipline of cultural geography investigates the variation of these symbolisms, traditions, and cultural products across time and space. It is through the lens of cultural geography, especially in respect to environmental symbolism, that we can interpret the value and…

of a cultural landscape or historic site. Bluestone and Wallace highlight how the tool of preservation can be a tool of destruction and how the public’s idea of cultural landscapes has changed over time. Hayden points out the relationship between memory and landscapes, including how a society becomes attached to these sites. The overall theme of the readings is the attachment that society holds to these sites and the connection that this has with the conservation of these landscapes. To…

this common area and to the left of the bedroom in an office space with its own hidden courtyard. The swimming pool acts as a means to separate the rough landscape from the house. Function is also accounted for with every human necessity taken care of in its simplest form. (See Figure…

Literacy in the Landscape Understanding language is very important for a person to become a productive member of society, because language is what connects everyone to other people and to their landscape. This paper will discuss the findings from non-experimental, descriptive research that focuses on literacy in the landscape. The selected literacy is connected with gas prices and other various things that may cause a person to stop at a service station, and is located at I-30 and 1903. This…

“What’s the epigenetic landscape?” I asked, my face creating the same puzzled expression as 20 other 14-year olds in the room. The white polo clad Ms. Bhargava gave us her typical vague metaphor, “It is a slope on a mountain with many ridges. The organic cell is a ball that is rolling down the slope. The ridges change the path of the ball, which is like points in time in which a cell gets more specialized. The epigenetic landscape is just a way to explain differentiation and specialization.”…