This article aims to be a reflective text, and to express, from an analytical, critical and practical approach to the notion of territory and cultural landscape, how said duality shapes the conception of heritage in a holistic way. Its goal is to show the decisiveness and inescapability the patrimonial component has for the purpose of the planning of territory, urban planning and sustainable development. The correlation and implication between theory and practice, and the comprehensiveness of the patrimonial component, are found through the examination of theoretical definitions, international agreements, management proposals and examples of practical cases in Peru. The reflection is set off by Ramón Folch’s statement, that "the landscape is the aspect of the territory and summarizes the history of the anthropic process that it has been able to develop". In such a way, the article int...

The following review gives the opportunity to talk about heritage in its integral conception, in this chance about the particular case of Madrid's urban landscape and how it has gradually been forgedduring the last two centuries, according to a specific practice of planning. The virtue of the publication consists precisely in describing and analyzing representative urban pieces that make up the current patrimonial landscape of the city: streets, squares, gardens, residential buildings, facilities,infrastructures, uses of public space, etc. It differs meritoriously from those traditional architectural guides that only contemplate the isolated object, indifferently from its surroundings, without thinking about the city as it is perceived by the neighbor, the passer-by, the student.

This article aims to be a reflective text, and to express, from an analytical, critical and practical approach to the notion of territory and cultural landscape, how said duality shapes the conception of heritage in a holistic way. Its goal is to show the decisiveness and inescapability the patrimonial component has for the purpose of the planning of territory, urban planning and sustainable development. The correlation and implication between theory and practice, and the comprehensiveness of the patrimonial component, are found through the examination of theoretical definitions, international agreements, management proposals and examples of practical cases in Peru. The reflection is set off by Ramón Folch’s statement, that "the landscape is the aspect of the territory and summarizes the history of the anthropic process that it has been able to develop". In such a way, the article int...

The following review gives the opportunity to talk about heritage in its integral conception, in this chance about the particular case of Madrid's urban landscape and how it has gradually been forgedduring the last two centuries, according to a specific practice of planning. The virtue of the publication consists precisely in describing and analyzing representative urban pieces that make up the current patrimonial landscape of the city: streets, squares, gardens, residential buildings, facilities,infrastructures, uses of public space, etc. It differs meritoriously from those traditional architectural guides that only contemplate the isolated object, indifferently from its surroundings, without thinking about the city as it is perceived by the neighbor, the passer-by, the student.