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- Title
Latgale Upland Church landscape reading though spatial indicators.
- Authors
Markova, Madara
- Abstract
Research territory is Latgale Upland. In this territory there are vivid lake and sacred landscapes. This paper describes the Latgale Upland church landscape through assessment of landscape visual character using theory-based visual indicators. This landscape research is less about identifying what makes landscape better or worse, but more about describing landscape. Methods and systems come from landscape character assessment in England and Scotland, developed by the Countryside Agency. In this paper, a focus is put on imageability. In research fields, landscape indicators are being used only recently. In this research, it is necessary to clarify, if is it possible to use indicators for smaller territories. The imageability indicator method was applied on some randomly chosen church landscapes in Latgale Upland. The use of imageability method on orthophoto has to be used in combination with field observation. Field observation is needed to correctly identify indicators, landscape background and other possible landscape features and character. The base map size and scale depend on the landscape type and open spaces. Landscape size and intensity of indicators can be used as base for characterization of landscape and possible developmental means. In church landscapes, we can find range of variable characters.
- Subjects
OSTLAND; ENGLAND; SCOTLAND; LANDSCAPES; CHURCH; UPLANDS
- Publication
Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture: Landscape Architecture & Art, 2013, Vol 2, Issue 2, p12
- ISSN
2255-8632
- Publication type
Article