Lost Landscapes: In Search of Cartographic Evidence

摘要: This chapter aims at retrieving the old landscapes which are currently ‘lost’ in time, as well space, by comparing maps dating from different historical periods. The traces of gradually disappearing, especially because their existence was not linked to present inhabitants’ concrete experiences. Based on large-scale (1:25,000–1:57,600) back 1769–1980, six case studies Romania were analysed (in a GIS open source environment) covering several types landscapes: rural, urban, agricultural, forests, and vineyards. Ada-Kaleh Island Orsova City flooded after settling Iron Gates Lake (1970–1971). Eteni Lăteni villages disappeared following floods produced Somes (1970) Danube Rivers (1942). well-groomed cemetery still bears witness village. painful history Bărăgan where people deported for political reasons, did last long Lătesti village (1951–1976), but it intense. In order find out how interested young nowadays past landscapes, also they relate questionnaire given first-year students Faculty Geography within University Bucharest. Their responses proved that 85% same 58% unaware fact had been covered Lake, 69% hadn’t heard Island, 92% familiar with cause its disappearance. Forty-nine percent respondents didn’t know great part Vlăsia Forests (Codrii Vlăsiei) Bucharest’s metropolitan area beginning twentieth century, being replaced or agricultural landscapes.