Many of the bustling metropolitan cities are bound to rapid urbanization and globalization that unavoidably change the culture, traditions, and, ultimately, the history of the city. This extremely rapid transformation of social and economic construct could lead to the diminishment and disappearance of urban cultural interactions, and thus poses a huge threat to big cities. Sacred landscape can provide a solution towards preserving and protecting core cultural values and dealing with new social challenges. Sacred landscape is a cultural construct that mirrors our memories and myths and is a treasury of intangible human values that nurture our lives. It connects elements of nature such as mountains, rivers, trees, and caves to human values such as religion, culture, and history. Recent studies suggest that the concept of sacredness is associated with people’s backgrounds, environmental elements, and cultural values [8—10]. Critical to the notion of sacred landscape are the concepts of imaginary and cultural landscapes in which our sense of place and memories inhere. In this paper, we aim at finding some of the key and tangible values of sacred landscapes that can be applied to modern urban areas to permeate and preserve our cultural and social values.
Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/000511
Rimaz, Hamideh
Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment\School of Architecture
Year: 2018
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