Abstract

Landscape is changing. Fairly closed discourses on aesthetics, art and architectural history are being opened up and historical accounts of the development of place that emphasized overarching economic, social and political processes are being contested (see Chapter 11). As value is typically placed on aspects that most directly inform favoured discourses, new ways of valuing are stimulated by new definitions of landscape, including the European Landscape Convention’s, ‘an area, as perceived by people, whose character is the result of the action and interaction of natural and/or human factors’ (Council of Europe 2000). How landscape is experienced from within, as ‘a constantly emergent perceptual and material milieu’ (Wylie 2007: 2) also influences evaluation.