To enhancing the landscape experience of chittorghar fort through the city

Abstract

Landscape is about the relationship between people and place. It provides the setting for our day-to-day lives. It results from the way that different components of our environment - both natural and cultural interact together and are perceived by us. People value landscape for many different reasons, not all of them related to traditional concepts of aesthetics and beauty, it also provide shade and shelter to both for animals and humans(all the major incident of Buddha’s life are closely associated with landscape settings, from birth to Enlightenment and Death). Landscape can have social, religious and community value, as an important part of people’s day-to-day lives. It provides a cultural record of how people have lived on the land and harnesses its resources. Ideally, economy was more or less also ecology. From the early on, in the sastra- authors there seems to have been an avid insight into the interrelatedness between long term prosperity and restrictive management of natural resources. It provided people with the place to enjoy the best conditions of life, such as youth, health, beauty, the company of lover and friends, and the performance of melodic music, political discussion and religious sermons, not only this; it provided the place for ascetic, outcast, demons, and tribal people. Landscape contributes to a sense of identity, wellbeing, enjoyment and inspiration . The identity of people is shaped through interaction with many environments, such as social class, religion, ethnicity and gender, but also in interaction with the physical world. People derive a significant part of their identity from the landscape in which they were raised or live. People can have a sense of belonging to a specific landscape. People are not only attached to visual features of the physical environment of how they see the land, but also how they identify forms, patterns and elements, processes, how they hear, smell and feel surroundings, they have associations, memories and symbolic meanings attached to these components of landscape. It is this association and interaction of human with its surrounding world which gives each landscape distinctness, make it different from the other, which might look physically & visually the same. Landscape character, which is the pattern that arises from particular combinations of the different components, can provide a sense of place to our surroundings. It is important to conserve or enhance or create an environment which results in the sense of place to people. Also, the sense of place comes from the experience of the outdoor environment.” Experiential landscape is a concept of the outdoor environment that draws together spatial and experiential dimensions as a unified whole.” Without this extra dimension of Experience the space remains a vessel. Stress should be given to social relevance of space rather than appearance The Experiences Identified, conserved enhanced or created will result in better understanding of Place & culture.