Influence of values on taste

Abstract

Shelley Egoz's dialogue with conventional and organic farmers confirms landscape types correlate with paradigms. Landscape architects engage in enhancing and creating environments for communities. One of the concerns is aesthetics and the form of the landscape. That form, however, might take on a contrasting meaning to different individuals or communities. Cultural landscapes, whether designed by professional landscape architects or created by others, represent a range of possible ways of life and meanings ascribed to those landscapes. The form of the farmed landscape is thus not only a portrayal of technologies but also displays people's world-views. The exploration of what constructs the aesthetic appreciation of these forms, or landscape tastes, is a pertinent question to landscape architects.