Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria
In 1992, the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument recognize cultural landscapes as a human heritage that must be protected. The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the l...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Mehmet Topcu
2022-04-01
|
| Series: | Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://www.drarch.org/index.php/drarch/article/view/89 |
| _version_ | 1811161147050557440 |
|---|---|
| author | Guerrout Chouaib Bahar Baser Kalyoncuoglu |
| author_facet | Guerrout Chouaib Bahar Baser Kalyoncuoglu |
| author_sort | Guerrout Chouaib |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | In 1992, the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument recognize cultural landscapes as a human heritage that must be protected. The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever accelerating changes in technology and life-style have increasingly affected many ancient landscapes, as old land-use practices are abandoned and traditions forgotten.(Birks et al., 1988) Human communities in desert areas formed a special landscape, providing these cultural landscapes within a special ecosystem of sustainable living conditions, which helped to create many social, economic, and cultural systems in addition to preserving biodiversity.
Unfortunately, the cultural landscape in the African desert is constantly deteriorating under the influence of urban, economic, and social changes. In the southern Algerian Timimoun city of is one of the most important global desert touristic destination due to the natural cultural landscape characterizes it, but unfortunately this landscape in continuous deterioration. Agricultural landscapes of desert environment, with its remarkable knowledge culture and world of practices, must be seen as a living library where this knowledge is transferred from generation to generation. It seems certain that we will need more of the know-how stored in this living library in the near future, especially considering the effects of climate change we are experiencing today.
The paper aims to identification of cultural landscapes in the oasis and analyses transformation and change in cultural landscape and traditional green infrastructure elements by relying on a historical analysis of spatial images based on quantitative analysis using ArcGIS software with the aim of identifying the real reasons of this deterioration in the urban cultural landscape in desert cites we will propose an action strategy to prevent this degradation. |
| first_indexed | 2024-04-10T06:09:34Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-7c6564a27fac40fdbe394113d2b701a4 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2757-6329 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-04-10T06:09:34Z |
| publishDate | 2022-04-01 |
| publisher | Mehmet Topcu |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning |
| spelling | doaj.art-7c6564a27fac40fdbe394113d2b701a42023-03-02T20:24:38ZengMehmet TopcuJournal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning2757-63292022-04-0131829510.47818/DRArch.2022.v3i104592Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, AlgeriaGuerrout Chouaib0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7976-1878Bahar Baser Kalyoncuoglu1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7088-3174Okan UniversityIstanbul Medipol UniversityIn 1992, the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument recognize cultural landscapes as a human heritage that must be protected. The Cultural Landscape - Past, Present and Future considers different aspects of man's intervention with natural vegetation and the landscape resulting from a long equilibrium of co-existence. These landscapes are not stable, and the recent and ever accelerating changes in technology and life-style have increasingly affected many ancient landscapes, as old land-use practices are abandoned and traditions forgotten.(Birks et al., 1988) Human communities in desert areas formed a special landscape, providing these cultural landscapes within a special ecosystem of sustainable living conditions, which helped to create many social, economic, and cultural systems in addition to preserving biodiversity. Unfortunately, the cultural landscape in the African desert is constantly deteriorating under the influence of urban, economic, and social changes. In the southern Algerian Timimoun city of is one of the most important global desert touristic destination due to the natural cultural landscape characterizes it, but unfortunately this landscape in continuous deterioration. Agricultural landscapes of desert environment, with its remarkable knowledge culture and world of practices, must be seen as a living library where this knowledge is transferred from generation to generation. It seems certain that we will need more of the know-how stored in this living library in the near future, especially considering the effects of climate change we are experiencing today. The paper aims to identification of cultural landscapes in the oasis and analyses transformation and change in cultural landscape and traditional green infrastructure elements by relying on a historical analysis of spatial images based on quantitative analysis using ArcGIS software with the aim of identifying the real reasons of this deterioration in the urban cultural landscape in desert cites we will propose an action strategy to prevent this degradation.https://www.drarch.org/index.php/drarch/article/view/89cultural landscapeksar ecosystemsocial resiliencetimimoun-africa |
| spellingShingle | Guerrout Chouaib Bahar Baser Kalyoncuoglu Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria Journal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning cultural landscape ksar ecosystem social resilience timimoun-africa |
| title | Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria |
| title_full | Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria |
| title_short | Understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of African Sahara Desert: The case of Timimoun, Algeria |
| title_sort | understanding the cultural landscape value of traditional agrarian landscapes of african sahara desert the case of timimoun algeria |
| topic | cultural landscape ksar ecosystem social resilience timimoun-africa |
| url | https://www.drarch.org/index.php/drarch/article/view/89 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT guerroutchouaib understandingtheculturallandscapevalueoftraditionalagrarianlandscapesofafricansaharadesertthecaseoftimimounalgeria AT baharbaserkalyoncuoglu understandingtheculturallandscapevalueoftraditionalagrarianlandscapesofafricansaharadesertthecaseoftimimounalgeria |