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Abstract
ABSTRACT. This article examines Lexington, Kentucky's Courthouse Square as a racialized landscape in order to illustrate a methodological framework for landscape interpretation that relies on historical geographical understanding. That framework ultimately calls for interpreting the place of landscape in everyday social practice by drawing on consideration of landscape's role in facilitating or mediating social practice and in expressing personal and regional place‐based identities, and on historical description of the tangible, visible scene as the foundation for such interpretations. The framework and the example take inspiration from D. W. Meinig, through his work concerning the interpretation of ordinary landscapes as well as his more extensive considerations of historical geographies of the American experience.
* I am grateful to Don Meinig for inspiring my interest in cultural landscapes and historical geography, and I thank the anonymous reviewers who took the time to make this essay better.
1 Dr. Schein is an associate professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.
* I am grateful to Don Meinig for inspiring my interest in cultural landscapes and historical geography, and I thank the anonymous reviewers who took the time to make this essay better.
1 Dr. Schein is an associate professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.
Notes
* I am grateful to Don Meinig for inspiring my interest in cultural landscapes and historical geography, and I thank the anonymous reviewers who took the time to make this essay better.
1 Dr. Schein is an associate professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506.