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Creating the Landscape Symbol Vocabulary for a Regional Image: The Case of the Kentucky Bluegrass

Karl Raitz and Dorn VanDommelen
Landscape Journal, September 1990, 9 (2) 109-121; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.9.2.109
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Abstract

A case study of the creation of an image symbol vocabulary for Kentucky is presented. The process of creating a regional image through landscape symbols involves two principal types of actors: patrons and interpreters. Patrons initiate the process by creating or contributing to a prototype landscape in the form of land use, building type, style and design, or manipulation of natural features. The patrons who contributed to Kentucky's preferred landscapes were wealthy gentry from England, Virginia, and Maryland. The interpreters were the architects and landscape designers who selected and filtered elements of the prototype landscape for reproduction and adaptation in new formats, contexts, and locations. Kentucky's regional image symbols are rooted in English gentry landscape tradition with imputs from Virginia and, after the turn af the 19th century, northern and eastern architects. Since aboul 1975, Post Modern architectural themes have found a rich source of images in the Bluegrass landscape, which are being used to further develop the use of symbols to represent not only the region but the entire state.

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Karl Raitz, Dorn VanDommelen
Landscape Journal Sep 1990, 9 (2) 109-121; DOI: 10.3368/lj.9.2.109

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Creating the Landscape Symbol Vocabulary for a Regional Image: The Case of the Kentucky Bluegrass
Karl Raitz, Dorn VanDommelen
Landscape Journal Sep 1990, 9 (2) 109-121; DOI: 10.3368/lj.9.2.109
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