This document provides an overview of cultural geography and cultural landscapes. It discusses how culture shapes the environment and how cultural traits, regions, and systems develop collective identities. Key approaches in cultural geography studies include the Berkeley School which views culture as an agent that uses nature to create meaning, and the New Cultural Geography which examines symbolic and material landscapes and inequality among groups. Cultural landscapes are formed through human activities imprinting on rural, recreational, and urban spaces. Culture also diffuses through processes like expansion, hierarchy, and relocation.

1. GEOG 101b Introduction to Human Geography Lecture 19 Week 12 CULTURAL LANDSCAPES Cultural systems and identities