Community identities as visions for landscape change

Residents’ felt senses of their community can play substantial roles in determining visions for landscape change. Community identities are often anchored in tangible environments and events of a community, and have the potential to serve as visions for landscape planning processes. Photo-elicitation...

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Published in:Landscape and urban planning 2004-08, Vol.69 (2), p.315-334
Main Authors: Stewart, William P., Liebert, Derek, Larkin, Kevin W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Empowerment
Human dimensions of holistic landscape ecology
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
Photo-elicitation
Stakeholder perceptions
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Summary:Residents’ felt senses of their community can play substantial roles in determining visions for landscape change. Community identities are often anchored in tangible environments and events of a community, and have the potential to serve as visions for landscape planning processes. Photo-elicitation is applied in this study to connect community-based meanings to environments and events. Twenty participants took photographs of landscapes just outside the southwest fringe of the Chicago metropolitan area and were interviewed while viewing their photographs. Analysis of interview texts focused on meanings of environments that connected participants to their community, and were organized into three overlapping themes: (1) places to learn about community landscapes, (2) places to enact community, and (3) places to improve community landscapes. These meanings are explicitly connected to landscape features through participants’ photographs and could form the basis of visions for landscape change within strategic planning processes.
ISSN:0169-2046
1872-6062
DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2003.07.005