Landscape Versus Region – Part I

Agnew, John A. (editor) / Duncan, James S. (editor) / Howe, Nicolas (author)

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Human Geography ; 114-129

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-04-08

16 pages

9781405189897 , 9781444395839

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395839.ch7

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Sauer's commitment to landscape morphology ‐ replaced by synoptic, inter ‐ disciplinary pursuit of culture history , “The Morphology,” Sauer writing that “area or landscape ‐ the field of geography, it is a naïvely given section of reality, not a sophisticated thesis” , late 1930s, anxiety about scientific legitimacy of regional geography ‐ reaching something of a climax , region against landscape, Hartshorne's dislike of landscape ‐ obscure blend of “scene” and “area” muddied geography's methodological waters , the Berkeley School, winning the fight in cultural geography ‐ landscape being the subject of a vibrant and contentious literature , tensions between landscape and region ‐ 1920s, Landschaftskunde, or landscape science, imported from Germany as a rival to regional geography , birth of American cultural geography ‐ a cultural process like any other , historicism, primary bone of contention ‐ then naturalism, a close second , ordinary English, “landscape” and “region” ‐ disparate things, neither complementary nor conflicting , regional geography and its discontents ‐ story of Sauer/Hartshorne rivalry, a story of cultural diffusion