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Conservation of landscapes of cultural and historic value has emerged as an increasingly significant aspect of the understanding and management of the built environment over the past 25 years. Distinct patterns and trends are observable over this quarter century in which landscape has evolved from an obscure aspect of Canadian heritage to one now seen in many dimensions. Four identifiable approaches - reconstruction, restoration, conservation planning, and cultural landscapes - reflect differing philosophies in the treatment of landscapes. Each has made distinctive demands in terms of knowledge, technologies, and communication, and each has contributed through research, experimentation, and publications to better understanding of the historic landscapes of our country. These characteristic approaches to identification, protection, and management of past landscapes reflect changes in both Canadian society and the international conservation movement, to which Canadians have actively contributed and from which they have also learned. Given the aging of Canada's pioneers in historic landscape conservation and the transience of communications technologies in today's world, there is an urgent need to capture our experience in this field while we have among us those who were most influential in its early years. And we still know very little about the history of how Canadians have designed, evolved, and valued the land.
La question de la conservation du paysage historique et culturel est apparue il y a environ 25 ans dans le domaine de l'amenagement du cadre bati. Differents modeles et courants ont marque ce quart de siecle au cours duquel le paysage, parent pauvre du patrimoine canadien, est devenu l'objet d'un interet sans cesse grandissant. Le traitement du paysage se divise en quatre secteurs principaux: la reconstruction, la renovation, la planification de la conservation et le paysage faconne par l'homme. Ces domaines ayant tous des besoins specifiques, que ce soit sur le plan scientifique, technologique ou mediatique, chacun a contribue a sa facon, par la recherche, l'experimentation et la creation de publications, a une meilleure comprehension du paysage historique canadien. Une evolution se dessine a travers les differentes facons d'aborder l'identification, la protection et l'amenagement du paysage historique. On la remarque tant au sein de la societe canadienne que du mouvement ecologique international, mouvement auquel le Canada a pris une part active et duquel il a...