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Farmland landscape fragmentation evolution and its driving mechanism from rural to urban: A case study of Changzhou City

, 2021
China's farmland landscape fragmentation follows a distinct evolutionary tendency along the spatial gradient “central urban areas → urban–rural transitional areas → rural areas”, because of its binary structure comprising urban and rural areas.
Jia Penghui, Chen Dengshuai, Li Manchun
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Maintaining the Rural Landscape

New Zealand Geographer, 1995
ABSTRACTCultural landscapes require maintenance. The example of hedging in South Island, New Zealand, is used to explore the factors which generate perennial crises of maintenance, and ultimately affect the sustainability of a productive rural landscape. This logic of maintenance is applicable to other forms of landscape investment in drains, buildings,
SHERRY OLSON, PETER HOLLAND
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Rural Landscape Anatomy

Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2006
Landscape Architecture is still maturing in the Netherlands. It fills gaps left by urban designers and provides integrated design examples that reflect current cultural conditions, yet at the same time this does not necessarily lead to specific and adaptive design strategies.
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Understanding different cultural ecosystem services: An exploration of rural landscape preferences based on geographic and social media data.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
Yongjun Li   +14 more
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Aesthetic heterogeneity on rural landscape: Pathway discrepancy between perception and cognition

Journal of Rural Studies, 2022
Jun Qi   +3 more
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The spatial characteristics and relationships between landscape pattern and ecosystem service value along an urban-rural gradient in Xi’an city, China

, 2020
The spatial structure and function of Xi’an city is significantly affected by urbanization, a factor which can be considered as the main driver of landscape pattern and ecosystem service change.
Lei Hou, Faqi Wu, Xinli Xie
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Redreaming the rural landscape

Futures, 2007
Abstract Human cultures and landscapes co-evolve. Australia's rural landscapes are changing due to profound shifts in cultural, institutional and economic relationships with nature, and the values and meanings of landscapes are being reinterpreted.
Jason Alexandra, Curtis Riddington
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The rural landscape

The chapter analyzes the structure of the rural landscape of the Neo-Assyrian and in particular the management of water and the construction of hydraulic ...
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Governance in rural landscapes

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography, 2012
Participation and governance are mostly connected to urban settings with their particular challenges of multiple ethnic communities, derelict urban fabric, and dysfunctional socio-economic systems. However, rural areas are affected by governance approaches and national and international funding institutions such as the European Union tend to require ...
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Reading the rural landscapes

Landscape and Urban Planning, 2005
Rural landscapes express the logics behind the crop systems of farmers, the aesthetic or the visions of Arcady, real nature or outdoor recreation of their inhabitants. Linguistics, either structural linguistics or semiotics, provide useful tools for deciphering the resulting constructions.
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