Geographers regard landscape as a scientific term, and define it as a kind of landscape, or a comprehensive natural geographical area, or a kind of unit, such as urban landscape, grassland landscape, forest landscape and so on. Artists regard landscape as the object of expression and reproduction, which is equivalent to landscape architects taking landscape as the setting or background of buildings; Ecologists define landscape as an ecosystem or a system of ecosystems; Tourism experts regard landscape as resources;
More commonly, the landscape is equated with the street view facade of the city by urban beautification activists and developers, neon lights, landscaping and sketches in real estate, and fountains overlap. A more literary and broader definition is "a scene that can be expressed in a picture and can be viewed from a certain angle."
Especially the natural scenery. But even the same scene, different people will have very different understandings, as Meniger said, ten versions of the same scene (ten
The same version
Landscape, 1976): Landscape is the nature that people yearn for, the landscape is the habitat of human beings, the landscape is man-made handicrafts, the landscape is a material system that needs scientific analysis to understand, the landscape is a problem to be solved, the landscape is a resource that can bring wealth, the landscape is an ideology that reflects social ethics and values, the landscape is history and the landscape is beautiful.
As the object of landscape design, landscape refers to the integration of land, space and objects on land. It is the imprint of complex natural processes and human activities on the earth, which can be understood and expressed as follows:
Landscape: the object of visual aesthetic process;
Habitat: the space and environment where human beings and other creatures live;
Ecosystem: an organic system with structural functions and internal and external relations;
Symbol: a language and spiritual space that records human past, expresses hopes and ideals, and relies on identification and sustenance.