- 18 Mar, 2021
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the trip
Before the trip, you should determine which five buildings to visit. The city hall does not count. Your building selection should not
be random, but rather with a specific theme or focus in mind. Here are some examples of potential themes: Canadiana historically
significant buildings; parliamentary buildings; gardens; churches or religious temples; ghost story buildings; institutional buildings
like higher education; or medical buildings. The list goes on. Please refer to their website for a list of buildings.
2. Keeping in mind the definition of “cultural landscape as a characteristic and (in)tangible outcome of the complex interactions
between a human group and a natural environment”. Take thorough notes and visuals of the buildings and/or sites that are of
significance to cultural landscape.
3. As you will be putting together your report, you should take photographs of the buildings and their surroundings. Please ensure
that you have one team photo (or selfie with relevant buildings around you) to demonstrate that you have visited the building.
Report Requirements
Please structure your report using the following guidelines:
Introduction
o Rationale for chosen theme and the five buildings. List them with pictures.
o Although you have visited 5 buildings, you only have to present three in-depth.
Brief background information for the three main buildings. Include information about their surroundings, past and present
uses, historical legacies, before/after imageries, or how the building and its surrounding areas have evolved over time.
Identify the site/building in conjunction with its surroundings, using the five elements of mental cognitive imageries:
o Districts – Areas with an identifiable character (physical and/or cultural) that people mentally “enter” and “leave” (e.g.,
a business district or an ethnic neighbourhood)
o Nodes – Strategic points and foci for travel (e.g., street corners, traffic intersections, city squares)
o Landmarks – Physical reference points (e.g., distinctive landforms, buildings, monuments)
o Paths – The channels along which they and others move (e.g., streets, walkways, transit lines, canals)
o Edges – Barriers that separate one area from another (e.g., shorelines, walls, railroad tracks)
Examine the building, site, and its vicinity using cultural landscape principles. Where applicable and relevant:
o Describe the characteristic and outcome of the building/site as a result of human and nature interactions
CGEO820 | Outer Landscape of Culture
May 25 & May 26o Describe the geography of past (historical geography), if it is relevant to the site/building.
o Describe the “genre de vie” (ways of living). Is the site/building demonstrating a functionally organized way of life that
is seen to be characteristic of a particular cultural group
o Describe the impact of globalization, and the extent of a homogenized culture, as well as global forces come to be
modified by local cultures
o Describe the interplay between the building and politics / economy
o Describe other elements of cultural geography such as gender, class, ethnicity, stage in life cycle, etc. as they pertain
to your building / site.
o Describe how the building/site is affected by natural landscape.
o Describe a cultural trait that is persistent among the complex routine of practices that constitute a particular cultural
group
o Describe evidence of a “cultural region” within which a particular cultural system prevail (if applicable)
o Describe the cultural system where by a collection of interacting elements that, taken together, shape a group’s
collective identity.
o Describe whether this building, site, and its surrounding contains “place marketing”, and why?
o Describe other phenomenon that relate to cultural geography, beyond this list.
o Describe whether this build