Cartography, landscape and territory (DOI: 10.2436/20.3000.02.4)

Autors/ores

  • Vicenç M. Rosselló i Verger Universitat de València (UV)

Paraules clau:

landscape, cartography, geography, map, laws on the landscape

Resum

The word landscape is fashionable. It has become thoroughly modern and triggers heated debates on concepts like territory and map. But the most decisive impetus to “canonise” the predominant word and concept of landscape has come from laws, which refer back to the idea of territory and protection. This makes clear the need for cartography. Maps are not an image like any other: they strive to bring order to the world; they serve to classify and qualify. Yet maps cannot reproduce the totality of the landscape or its evolution: when it abstracts, a map falsifies, departs from reality, simplifies and caricatures it.

Key words: landscape, cartography, geography, map, laws on the landscape

Original source: Treballs de la Societat Catalana de Geografia, 65: 35-49 (2008)

Descàrregues

Número

Núm. 1 (2012)

Secció

Geografia

Llicència

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