Cultural geography define

As a result, cultural geography was long dominated by American writers

Geographers drawing on this tradition see cultures and societies as developing out of their local landscapes but also shaping those landscapes

This interaction between the natural landscape and humans creates the cultural landscape

Dubow, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2009 Landscape is a central theme of cultural geography, and the past three decades have seen an explosion in the varied and competing ways in which cultural geographers and others have understood the term

Classical cultural geography is conventionally traced back to origins in the 1920s, with the work of Carl Sauer and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

The ‘Berkeley School’, as it would become known, embedded an understanding of culture as both ‘cultivation’ – to grow or rear – and as ‘way of life’