The Crab House on Oyster Creek: Folkloristic Response to Vernacular Landscape and its Environmental Moorings

The Andersen crab house on Oyster Creek is located on a waterway that is part of the wider estuarine environment consisting of New Jersey’s Great Bay and the Mullica River. It is a building type that has long served oystermen, clammers, crabbers, finfishers, and waterfowlers along New Jersey’s Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay coastlines. Having survived for almost ninety years, the building’s siting allows Phil Andersen to effectively tend the adjacent crabbing grounds and prepare the catch for market. The building, along with his boat and harvesting gear organizes the contours of his working landscape, tools that do not simply define the occupation’s environmental fit, but, as an assemblage, continually advance Andersen’s acquisition of traditional ecological knowledge. While its stark presence on the salt marsh punctuates its environmental fit and role as the axis of Andersen’s occupational map, its enduring function as a working landscape resonates widely throughout the community. The work and social life of the building speak to its capacity to be broadly affiliative, its features, use, and siting laden with aesthetic and performative depth that make it a touchstone of environmental experience and sense of place. These attributes—specifically their role in curating memory and affirming a community’s environmental moorings—show how the Andersen crab house, and similar buildings that preceded it, have engendered folkloristic response for over one hundred and fifty years.

Evaluation of vernacular landscape attraction for traditional village tourism: A case study of Yongfeng Village in Lanzhou

In the context of rural revitalization, the benign development of traditional village tourism is of great significance to the implementation of Rural Revitalization Strategy in China. Taking Yongfeng Village in Lanzhou as the research object, this paper discusses the evaluation method of vernacular landscape attraction. Through the research on the internal and external environment and historical culture of Yongfeng village, this paper constructed the rural landscape attraction system and evaluation index. With the help of the effective data of the questionnaire survey, this paper made an empirical calculation of the rural landscape attraction intensity of Yongfeng Village by using the methods of AHP and factor analysis. The results show that: (1) the protection and rational use of historical and cultural resources is the core content to improve the attractiveness of rural tourism landscape; (3) the internal space is the connotation externalization of the attraction of rural landscape, Renovating the historical built-up environment is the material basis for attracting tourists’ in-depth experience. Therefore, the effective way to enhance the attraction is to activate and integrate the material and non-material rural landscape resources of traditional villages.

Study on the Conservation Planning of Vernacular Landscape in Village Planning in the Context of Multi-regulation Integration——The Case of Changlong Village in Pinggui District, Hezhou City

As one of the important concentrated manifestations of Chinese rural culture, vernacular landscape is related to the success or failure of new rural construction and village planning. How to protect the existing vernacular landscape in the practical village planning advocated by “multi-planning” and how to play the role of vernacular landscape in supporting development and protecting cultural heritage is one of the important tasks of village planning. This paper takes Changlong Village in Pinggui District, Hezhou City, Guangxi Province, as an example to explore and study the issue of planning the native landscape of Changlong Village in the multi-planning village planning, so as to provide technical support for the scientific protection and reasonable development and utilization of the native landscape for rural revitalization, and to provide reference and reference for the native landscape planning in the village planning of similar areas in China.

A Multidimensional Model for the Vernacular: Linking Disciplines and Connecting the Vernacular Landscape to Sustainability Challenges

After developing a systematic analysis of the vernacular phenomenon in different disciplines, this paper presents a flexible model to understand the multiple factors and the different degrees of vernacularity behind the many processes that lead to the generation of material culture. The conceptual model offers an open, polythetic and integrative approach to the vernacular by assuming that it operates in different dimensions (temporal, socio-political, sociological, locational, epistemological, procedural, economic and functional), and that the many attributes or characteristics included in those dimensions are all relevant but not strictly necessary. The model is intended to facilitate a more methodical and rigorous connection between the vernacular concept and contemporary discourses on sustainability, resilience, globalization, governance, and rural-urban development. In addition, and due to its transdisciplinary character, the model will enable the development of comparative studies within and between a wide range of fields (architecture, landscape studies, design, planning and geography). A prospective analysis of the use of the model in rural landscapes reveals its potential to mediate between the protective approach that has characterized official planning during the last decades and emergent approaches that advocate the reinterpretation of the vernacular as a new form to generate new collective identities and to reconnect people and place.

PAISAGEM E GEOGRAFIA VERNACULAR NA SERRA DA MERUOCA - CE: FOTOGRAFIA E PINTURA COMO AUTOTESTEMUNHOS

O contexto de análise das paisagens vernaculares para a construção das reflexões deste artigo é a Serra da Meruoca, maciço residual encravado no Sertão cearense, na região Noroeste do estado do Ceará. A metodologia utilizou imagens fotográficas e pinturas artísticas como vetores importantes e essenciais para o aprofundamento do que se entende sobre saberes e Geografia vernaculares. O texto funciona como autotestemunho, dado o fato de os autores pertencerem ao mesmo meio de seu estudo e também atuarem, um como fotógrafo, outro como pintor amador e serem ambos atuantes em Geografia. O objetivo deste artigo é o de contribuir com estudos e possíveis debates acerca desses saberes, destacando como enfoque as paisagens que envolvem os ambientes naturais e culturais. Para isso, usamos abordagem qualitativa direcionada para as realidades espaciais em seus aspectos conceituais, com destaque para a paisagem enquanto conceito essencial nos estudos geográficos. Palavras-chave: Paisagem vernacular. Serra da Meuoca. Imagem. Fotografia. Pintura Artística. ABSTRACT The vernacular landscape analysis to the construction of this article is placed at Meruoca Mountain, a residual mass located in the Northwest region of Ceara state. The methodology used photographic images and artistic paintings as important and essential vectors for understanding about vernacular Knowledge and vernacular Geography. The text is a self-testimony given the fact that the authors belong to the same place of living and research. They are amateur photographer and painting artist as well both are geographers. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the studies and possible debates about those knowledges, highlighting the landscapes that surround the natural and cultural environments. For this we use qualitative approach directed to spatial realities in their conceptual aspects with emphasis on Landscape as an essential concept in Geography. Key words: Vernacular Landscape. Meruoca Mountain. Image. Photography. Artistic Painting. RESUMEN El contexto de análisis de los paisajes vernáculos para la construcción de las reflexiones de este artículo es la Sierra de la Meruoca, macizo residual enclavada en el agreste cearense, en la región noroeste del estado de Ceará. Cuanto a la metodología, utilizamos imágenes fotográficas y pinturas artísticas como conductores importantes y esenciales para la profundización sobre conocimientos y Geografía vernácula. El texto actúa como testigo propio, dado que los autores pertenecen al mismo medio de su estudio y también actúan, uno como fotógrafo, el otro como pintor aficionado y ambos actúan en la Geografía. El artículo tiene como objetivo contribuir a los estudios y posibles debates sobre estos conocimientos, enfatizando los paisajes que rodean los alrededores naturales y culturales. Para eso, utilizamos un abordaje cualitativo direccionado a las realidades espaciales en sus aspectos conceptuales, destacando el paisaje como un concepto esencial en los estudios geográficos. Palabras clave: Paisaje vernáculo. Sierra de la Meruoca. Imagen. Fotografía. Pintura Artística. RÉSUMÉ Le contexte de l'analyse des paysages vernaculaires pour la construction des réflexions dans cet article est la Serra da Meruoca, une massif résiduelle encastrée dans la confins du Ceará, dans la région nord-ouest de l'état. La méthodologie a utilisé des images photographiques et des peintures artistiques comme vecteurs importants et essentiels pour l'approfondissement de ce qui est compris comme connaissances et géographie vernaculaire. Le texte fonctionne comme un témoignage de soi, étant donné que les auteurs appartiennent au même environmment de leur étude et également agissent, l'un en tant que photographe, l'autre en tant que peintre amateur et tous deux sont actifs en géographie. Le but de cet article est de contribuer aux études et aux débats possibles sur ces connaissances, en soulignant comment se concentrer sur les paysages qui impliquent des environnements naturels et culturels. Pour cela, nous utilisons une approche qualitative orientée vers les réalités spatiales dans leurs aspects conceptuels, en mettant l'accent sur le paysage comme concept essentiel dans les études géographiques. Mots-clés: paysage vernaculaire. Serra da Meruoca. L’Image. La photographie. Peinture artistique.

Ex-haciendas en Tlaxcala. Hacia una reconfiguración del paisaje rural

The hacienda system in Mexico represented a unique stage of development, playing a role of territorial control, social reproduction and production, reaching significant levels of productivity, forming a solid economic base, which allowed it to transcend various socio-political and economic conflicts, to this day, where due to its heritage and productive relevance, it has formed a vernacular landscape characteristic of the Mexican country side. The socio-economic and historical inheritance of the hacienda system in Tlaxcala gave rise to population centers, ejidos, municipalities and cities, from ceded or expropriated lands, forming the basis of the current Tlaxcaltec society. The assets represented by the former estates are at risk, when the disappearance of 65% of properties is registered, due to the high maintenance and conservation costs; low profitability of agricultural production; legal problems and lack of institutional support. This chapter deals with the origin, evolution and current situation of the former hacienda of the estate of Tlaxcala, concluding with rescue and conservation alternatives.

VERNACULAR DESIGN AS VISUAL PRACTICE OF URBAN SPACE ORGANIZATION

Article discusses specific status of the vernacular design in the visual style of the modern Ukrainian city, where indigenous dwellers coexist with those who came recently from the country. The vernacular regions in Ukrainian cities are analyzed as complex, eclectic and grass-roots. The vernacular design is understood within the complex cultural environment, where different traditions and cultural identities coexist. The terms "vernacular life", "vernacular landscape" are explicated. The vernacular landscape is interpreted in the context of the everyday human activities brought into the public urban spaces. The crucial characteristic (amateur, brutal, trying to be visible and being invisible, economical, tactical, irrational, anachronistic) and the main principles (constraint, thrift, durability, commonness) of the vernacular design are studied within the interpretive context of urban culture collective identity.