Elizabeth Bowie, "The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene"

Meinig presents the reader with several versions in which a landscape may be viewed by society. Accordingly, a landscape will encompass one of the following: "nature, habitat, artifact, system, problem, wealth, idealogy, history, and place." As designers, we should take heed that clients may and will percieve their surroundings differently than we percieve them. Our task will be to uncover which catagory our client sits in and develop their surroundings in a way which evokes more from the way they percieve thier environment.

It was stated that designers have a tendancy to view the landscape as "wealth" as we may be guided by a developer's wants and desires to line his pockets. We put a "value" to everything placed before us. I disagree. As with our current project "revising the sacred landscape: Poverty Point", the focus could be divided into a few differing "views," landscape as idealogy, as history, and as place. We set out to explore the site through analysis, cultutral aspects, ecology, programming, diagramming, and mapping. The best end results come from those with a strongly prepared background study and well thought out plan as to how to move forward.