Teaching humanistic geography

Constructing urban cultural landscapes & living in the palimpsests: a case of Moscow city (Russia) distant residential areas

“…They stated that "the total cultural landscape is information stored in symbolic form" that "in part functions as a narrative" (Rowntree, Conkey, 1980, p. 461), and "the symbolic qualities of landscape, those which produce and sustain social meaning, have become a focus of research" as this "allows us to disclose the meanings that human groups attach to areas and places and to relate those meanings to other aspects and conditions of human existence" (Cosgrove, Jackson, 1987, p. 96). This idea of place as being constructed has been developed in various directions inside humanistic geography (Tuan, 1974(Tuan, , 1976Hall, 1978;Entrikin, 1985;Hasson, 1984). "Space is transformed into place as it acquires definition and meaning", Yi-Fu Tuan (1977, p. 136) states.…”