Talk:Assignment 4: Landscape Concepts in comparison

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Hi Everybody!

I'm a little bit stuck with this literature looking, maybe you could help me. My questions are:

1. What type of literature exactly, should I look for?

I have already a poem what describes the "ideal" landscape of the era, it is idillic and romantic , but only describes a small segment of the country. It rather deals with the past, then with the future.

Then I have the definition of the landscape by the hungarian landscape architect profession. But that reflects only the bigger part of the landscape architect's opinion, other professions which also "constructing" the landscape don't agree with this definition. However that definition can be related to the concepts of future landscapes, because even today it is the "starting point" in the hungarian l.a. profession, education.

2. Should the literature be academic kind, or could I choose from other areas (for example as the poem mentioned above)?

Should I cite from Hungary's regional development concept? That exactly deals with the future of the hungarian landscape, but I think it's too large for the purpose, both in quantity and scale.

Or should I look for regulations?

3. Hungary is a small country, but even so it consist from many, totally different landscapes, so we can't tell it is just like this or that. Therefore each landscape is treated uniquely, and must be treated uniquely, and (I suppose, not yet sure) there are different literature for the different places... But of course, there are general regulations, for example in the regional development concept, and as I mentioned, maybe too large. So which landscape should I choose? Maybe that in which I'm living?

Well, as I wrote it down helped me to think already, but I post it, maybe there are some constructive ideas... :)

Balázs Dukai

Literature and Dictionaries

Dear Balasz, I think it might be interesting to look at the lexical definition in Hungarian because this shall give a good summary of the common understanding (which is usually more or less different from the professional understanding). So a look at some bigger Hungarian encyclopaedia should help, I would say. I think we should not look into different regional landscape types as this would lead to a very broad discussion. So keep it broad and general- the lexical definition + the poem is good for the common understanding, a short summary of the regional plan's definition should be enough for the professional perspective (plus some aspect of the landscape architects' view if you wish) Ellen