UrbanLandscape.org.uk
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Urban Landscapes - Main Page
Description
The urban landscape can be viewed both as a series of structures and edifices more or less organised by human action and as a panorama of social and cultural histories
framing our present and inscribing our past. Seen in this way, '....the conurbation becomes one huge archaeological site as the city reveals its inner self through a continuous process of urban renewal and revitalisation in which the very innards of
the landscape are exposed and delayered like a vast anatomical dissection' (Ron McCormick, Archaeologies : Tracing History in the Urban Landscape, 1998). The challenge for urban landscape photography is to not only record the physical manifestations of this relentless process, but also to make visible the underlying social and cultural forces which ultimately determine their form and meaning.
