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Is there future for landscape identity in the globalised world

Identity is an outcome of differential features that are common to a certain social or physical entity. A wide and richly articulated phenomenology of identities has originated throughout the history. In the past, highly developed differentiation among social or territorial communities was an implicit feature, manifest in many aspects. However, the most obvious were those created in the material culture, such as buildings, organisation of settlements and agricultural land-use. So identity evolves as an overall, synthesising concept for what the countryside represents as a physical, economic, social and symbolic entity. Globalisation covers almost all material and spiritual aspects of our life at an increase pace and with following features: - it has become global and affects even the smallest place in remote areas - it proceeds very fast - it has a far-reaching, actually world-wide effect of homogenisation. These processes inevitably take place also in rural landscapes with detrimental effects and are in the form of: - abandonmet of the traditional way of building, so the unity of materials, colour and style, is lost, and disordered diversity takes over: - the spatial organisation of old rural settlements is disappearing ; new buildings escape traditional patterns and bring disfiguration of the existing villages, breaking the integrity of the village and the surrounding landscape. - Introduction of single-crop, large-scale farming that results in a highly uniform landscape of extremely simplified structure with little interest as experiential landscape and lacking ecological value, - The paper will bi illustrated with examples from a study about potential impact of globalisation on cultural landscape and some suggestion will be made about possibilities to maintain the identity or rural landscapes.

identity; globalisation; rural lanadscape;

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