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A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as Landform s, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the Built Environment . Landscape can also mean the objects around you in a building. Example;
"I went to the mall, because I heard that the Landscape there is wonderful" or "I love the landscape of this house".


Etymology

The word ''landscape'' is from the Dutch word ''landschap'', a contraction of a noun and a verb, ''land'' , (land, patch, area) and the verb ''scheppen'' (to create) litterally, the word means "''created land/patch/area''" as the practice of reclaiming/creating land (polders) was, and is, typical for the Dutch countryside. The word first appeared in English to describe a painted view of the land.


The uses of landscape

Specific uses of landscape include:

  • Landscape Art is the depiction of a landscape in a painting, photograph or other work of art.

  • Landscape Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and managing public and private landscapes and gardens. Related terms include:

  • --- Landscape Design

  • --- Landscape Engineering

  • --- Landscape Planning

  • ---Landscape gardening is the practice of designing large scale estate gardens, and is usually applied to the 18th and 19th centuries, and seen as a precursor to landscape architecture.

  • ---A Landscape contractor ("landscaper") is a tradesman or firm undertaking landscaping works.

  • Landscape Ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that investigates the ecological causes and consequences of spatial pattern, process and change in landscapes.

  • Landscape Orientation of a rectangular page, painting or other graphic means that the longer axis is horizontal. (So named because landscape paintings usually have this orientation.) When the long axis is vertical, it is called Portrait orientation.

  • '' Landscape '' is a play by Harold Pinter

  • Landscape was a British 1980s synthpop band.

  • Anthropic Landscape is a concept in string theory.

  • Cultural Landscape s are "combined works of nature and of man." They are illustrative of the evolution of human society and settlement over time, under the influence of the physical constraints and/or opportunities presented by their natural environment and of successive social, economic and cultural forces, both external and internal {Link without Title} .


In some nordic countries a landskap is or was an administrative unit:


See also