ABSTRACT
In chapter four, three cases of landscape analyses, conducted mostly in accordance with conventional methods, serve as examples to demonstrate the importance of making explicit the landscape ideal that guides the seeing of an area as landscape. Through the identification of landscape motifs that are relevant to the actual planning task, a landscape emerges. This proposed image is a meaningful landscape under the given circumstances and points towards a certain planning decision. Under the guidance of an explicit ideal, the analysis can activate and strengthen its narrative legitimacy. In an example from Vegaøyan, landscapes appear from seeing the land according to the ideal of the World Heritage Centre. In an example from Sarpefossen, a poetic landscape is extracted from an ordinary area. An example from Storhei shows how the analyst assembles material memories and cultural values in an area and articulates intangible experiences as shareable narratives.
