ABSTRACT
As we have already seen, the term landscape can be used in a variety of ways: as a scale of planning, as an approach to forest ecology and as the perceptual realm of the senses. The earliest use of the term, originally a Dutch word, means a “prospect of scenery that can be taken in at a glance from one point of view.” Thus landscape is both a physical and an experiential concept. The last chapter concentrated on its physical and ecological attributes. In this chapter we are going to examine some of the concepts and practical aspects of the experiential sense of landscape, review the different approaches adopted to try to manage landscape change and/or protect scenery and present a method for analysing landscape character and sensitivity that can be applied as part of the integrated design process to be presented in Chapter 5. One of the important interactions we have with our surroundings or environment is the aesthetic.
