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Chapter 3
Landscape
as
Prospect
and
Refuge
In landscape, the sightseer seeks views that compose involun-
tarily in the mind's eye as satisfying place images. Sightseeing
is a search for scenes by which the objects of place can be
effectively discovered and related. A view, as a complex of
objects (a kind of place in itself), can be categorized according
to basic components. These components include: (i) extent of
view or the distance over which sight is effective; (2) fore-
ground-middleground-background discontinuities or the
existence of multiple horizons; (3) enframement by which
sight is bounded; (4) focal points that serve as attention getters;
and (5) sense of security implicit in focal points that imply
refuge. 1 Effective views contain prospects that enable viewers
to survey considerable distances over several successive
horizons. "Panoramas," for example, are grand uninterrupted
prospects which sweep to far horizons across all or nearly all of
one's field of vision (fig. 3.1). "Vistas," a more common kind
of prospect, are views conspicuously bounded or enframed

What is it that we like about
landscape, and why do we
like it?

JAY APPLETON

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Visual Elements of Landscape. Contributors: John A. Jakle - author. Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press. Place of Publication: Amherst, MA. Publication Year: 1987. Page Number: 39.
    
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