ABSTRACT
This chapter contains three distinctive realms: the global, the regional and the local. Research on landscape and globalisation traverses a vast terrain, reflecting the array of relationships between landscapes, which are essentially fixed 'in place', and the mobility of cultural ideas. The idea of a 'global landscape' could even be seen as something of impossibility, given the etymology of landscape and its conceptual dimensions within cultural geography. Landscape is rooted in a place-based understanding of the environment, whether through the cultural milieu of landschaft or the scenic view of landskip. The work of landscape architect Laurence Halprin and architectural firm MLTW at Sea Ranch in California is an exemplary design experiment of working with the local. Critical regionalism amplifies the role of the landscape in inflecting design, primarily through the advocacy of phenomenology and the concomitant heightening of the experiential dimension of landscape.
