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The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland
This paper investigates the once ubiquitous vernacular earth-built structures of Scotland and how perceptions of such buildings were shaped and developed through periods of intense cultural and environmental change. We focus upon the past exploitation of traditional resources to construct vernacular...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29170589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9931-4 |
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author | Parkin, Simon J. Adderley, W. Paul |
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description | This paper investigates the once ubiquitous vernacular earth-built structures of Scotland and how perceptions of such buildings were shaped and developed through periods of intense cultural and environmental change. We focus upon the past exploitation of traditional resources to construct vernacular architectures and on changes in the perception of the resultant buildings. Historic earth-built structures are today deeply hidden within the landscapes of Scotland, although they were once a common feature of both urban and rural settlements. Whilst the eighteenth and nineteenth century period of Improvement – during which many of these structures were destroyed, repurposed, or left to decay – has received extensive attention by historians, there exists no previous serious study of the human and environmental dimensions. Through analysis of the material aspects of landscape resource use and analysis of the historical perceptions of such use, we emphasize the national significance of this undervalued aspect of Scotland’s built and cultural heritage, increasingly at risk of being lost completely, highlighting the prior ubiquity of mudwall structures. |
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spelling | pubmed-56803602017-11-21 The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland Parkin, Simon J. Adderley, W. Paul Hum Ecol Interdiscip J Article This paper investigates the once ubiquitous vernacular earth-built structures of Scotland and how perceptions of such buildings were shaped and developed through periods of intense cultural and environmental change. We focus upon the past exploitation of traditional resources to construct vernacular architectures and on changes in the perception of the resultant buildings. Historic earth-built structures are today deeply hidden within the landscapes of Scotland, although they were once a common feature of both urban and rural settlements. Whilst the eighteenth and nineteenth century period of Improvement – during which many of these structures were destroyed, repurposed, or left to decay – has received extensive attention by historians, there exists no previous serious study of the human and environmental dimensions. Through analysis of the material aspects of landscape resource use and analysis of the historical perceptions of such use, we emphasize the national significance of this undervalued aspect of Scotland’s built and cultural heritage, increasingly at risk of being lost completely, highlighting the prior ubiquity of mudwall structures. Springer US 2017-09-15 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5680360/ /pubmed/29170589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9931-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2017, Corrected publication October/2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Article Parkin, Simon J. Adderley, W. Paul The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland |
title | The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland |
title_full | The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland |
title_fullStr | The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland |
title_full_unstemmed | The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland |
title_short | The Past Ubiquity and Environment of the Lost Earth Buildings of Scotland |
title_sort | past ubiquity and environment of the lost earth buildings of scotland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5680360/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29170589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-017-9931-4 |
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