Factors of Landscape
The sense of aesthetics is deep down rooted in our brain; it is a part of our function and a response to our consciousness. The aesthetics of the landscape can be viewed beyond the structural perspective
The aesthetics of the Landscape:
In order to understand human behavior, we need to understand the most complex and the most primitive of all the creatures on the earth – The Human being. In order to understand aesthetics (because landscape architecture is partly about aesthetics as well as function), let us turn to the birds – herring gull chicks. Adult gulls have a red spot on their lower bill. Chicks have a powerful innate tendency to peck at red dots, which has evolved as a way of getting their parents to feed them. What scientists found out was that if they replace the beak with a stick with red spots the birds automatically reach for that stick. In other words their aesthetics, their desire to reach out to the stick was a part of their consciousness, part of their brain. The word aesthetics means to perceive. Aesthetic pleasure is the satisfaction or desire deriving from perception. The sense of aesthetics is deep down rooted in our brain; it is a part of our function and a response to our consciousness.
Human interaction and Changing Landscape:
There were four distinct modes of resource use which defined the evolving relation of humans with natural landscapes.
1. Gathering and Hunting stage (Includes shifting cultivation)
2. Nomadic Pastoralism
3. Settled Cultivation
4. Industrialization
Different approaches of Landscape:
Approaches to landscape and nature can be described by the means of metaphors to highlight the ways the landscape is designed and used. Nature, landscapes and gardens can simultaneously be viewed in different ways and provide many benefits, including well – being, memories and identify markers. Nature as industrial resource implies treating nature as if it were an industry, as a producer of raw materials and many products used in modern living.
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