Landscapes with different logics: A physicalistic approach to semantic conflicts in spatial planningShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Quaestiones Geographicae, ISSN 2082-2103, E-ISSN 2081-6383, Vol. 36, no 4, p. 29-45
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Sustainable development
SDG 15: Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
Abstract [en]
This paper deals with the ways of categorising landscapes as ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ using a physicalist approach, where these terms have special meaning. The aim of this paper is to elaborate on the question whether such a division is still meaningful with regard to anthropogenic landscapes, not least in spatial planning. The concerns raised in this paper depart from the increasingly complicated structure of geographical space, including that of anthropogenic landscapes. Our standpoint is illustrated using cases of landscape ambiguities from Poland, Germany, Romania and Greece. Leaning on frameworks of physicalist (mechanicistic) theory, this paper suggests an explanation to the outlined semantic conflicts. This is done by pointing to the relationality between the impact of centripetal and centrifugal forces, the specifics of socio-economic development, as well as the varying landscape forms that emerge from the differences within that development.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Adam Mickiewicz University , 2017. Vol. 36, no 4, p. 29-45
Keywords [en]
urban landscapes, rural landscapes, semantics, physicalist approach, spatial planning
National Category
Human Geography
Research subject
Humanities, Human Geography
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-108618DOI: 10.1515/quageo-2017-0034OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-108618DiVA, id: diva2:1620490
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