ABSTRACT
Landscapes are treasures of the past, frame contemporary everyday life, and affect future environmental, economic and cultural processes. As material custodians of both historical memory and the sense of place, landscapes encapsulate our attachments, emotions, perceptions and knowledge, as well as our interests, decisions and actions. By providing a context to the spatial fixes and flows of everyday life, landscapes are long lasting witnesses to the production and consumption of territorial identities. Changes in spatial fixes and flows, provoked by agents of varying geographical scope, are reflected in the constant regeneration of the natural, economic and cultural character of territories. Landscapes are pivotal in the recognition of these changes. As constitutive elements of and factors in the making of territorial identities, landscapes are the medium through which the existing and emerging identities of places and regions are generated, recorded, assumed and claimed.
