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Lost landscapes in the territory of Czechia

Publication at Faculty of Science |
2022

Abstract

The article presents the solutions and results of the project "Heritage of lost landscapes: identification, reconstruction, presentation, developed in 2018-2022 within the NAKI II programme of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic. The aim of the project is to use model examples to identify and present the types of traditional cultural landscapes that have disappeared during the dynamic changes that have taken place in the Czech landscape and society since the end of the 18th century.

Both historical sources, mainly old maps and archival images, and modern geoinformation technologies were used to identify, document and partially reconstruct the disappeared landscapes. A typology of lost landscapes was created, which shows the diversity of vanished or transformed landscapes in the Czech Republic through 40 specific examples.

All 40 model areas are available to the interested professional and general public in the Digital Atlas of Extinct Landscapes.