Braiding Community & Environment via Public Space
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“Environmental literacy lies at the heart of understanding the places with which we are familiar, and thus at the heart of the issue of IDENTITY. It is necessary for people who live in and use urban places, indeed places of any kind, to know the environment around them. An awareness of place can only be enhanced when it becomes a part of people’s everyday lives.” source: Theory in Landscape Architecture P. 210 Michael Hough, environmental learning and direct experience Recognizing how different people use different places to fulfill the practical needs of living is one of the building block on which a distinctive sense of place can be enhanced in the urban landscape. Regional identity is connected with the peculiar characteristics of a location that tell us something about its physical and social environment. It is what a place has when it somehow belongs to its location and nowhere else. It has to do, therefore, with two fundamental criteria: first, with the natural processes––what people have put there. It has to do with the way people adapt to their living environment; how they change it to suit their needs in the process of living; how they make it their own. In effect, regional identity is the collective reaction of people to the environment over time… source: Theory in Landscape Architecture P. 210 Michael Hough, knowing the place |
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