Census (Digital Collage)

Census Series: The countryside has become a landscape designed and created intentionally by man, a system of interaction between human activity and natural habitat, a cultural landscape. Combined works of nature and humankind, they express a long and intimate relationship between peoples and their natural environment. Some reflect specific techniques of land use that guarantee and sustain biological diversity. Others, could be considered Urbanization, residential development of rural land, the spreading of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land as well as forest and other wilderness areas, a conversion of agricultural land to urban use. Urbanization endangers more species and is more geographically ubiquitous than any other human activity, being disruptive to native flora & fauna and introduces invasive plants into their environments. The effects of this urban spread can be mitigated through careful maintenance of native vegetation, the process of ecological succession and public education, embracing modern advances in conservation and traditional customs as seen in many cultures around the world where communities with powerful beliefs and creative solutions embody an exceptional spiritual relationship of people and nature, cultivated terraces on lofty mountains, gardens, sacred places, low Impact constructions testify to the creative genius, social development and the imaginative and spiritual vitality of humanity.