Parks and Cities

Question 1

What are components of a cultural landscape? (6 points)

Answer 1

created by people

shows relationship between people and land

sense of place

place is smt we create - it is emergent , experiential , grounded in history , subjective (they change)

places have active role in social relations

places have rules (like a crosswalk)

Question 2

How did maps shape colonialism?

Answer 2

showed people that there was no one inhabiting the land
- or that’s how they were shown by Europeans

Question 3

Why weren’t rock walls used in some cases of clam gardens?

Answer 3

Theory: Perfect mudflats already allowed for an ideal habitat

Question 4

Why was the creation of parks in the US problematic?

Answer 4

parks created to ensure access to landscapes for future generations – but whose future generations? not Indigenous, only white people and settlers

Erasure of long-term Indigenous inhabitance of these places in favour of short-term visitors. Competing understandings of nature, culture, and place

Question 5

If there is a _____ ______ to place, it is on us to learn different ways of reading them

Answer 5

If there is a social script to place, it is on us to learn different ways of reading them