Urban landscape assessment

Abstract

[EN] The valuation of the urban landscape as an important element in the quality of life and the sustainable development of the city constitute an incipient field of investigation from a new perspective that adds meanings and values. It starts from the concept of valuation as a system where the tangible and intangible values that the population and the experts assign to it are considered. These include formal, economic, environmental, social, cultural... issues and the relationships among them. The consideration of the opinions of experts from different disciplines, together with the preferences expressed by the population regarding the spaces they inhabit on a daily basis and their aspirations, strengthen the sense of belonging and the identity of the place as key elements in the perception of landscapes Urban that allows to contribute new qualities, criteria of integration and contemporary values to any type of intervention. These strategies and intervention procedures start from the complexity of the city as a system and incorporate the perception that citizens have or will have of their immediate environment. An analytical-qualitative methodology is proposed for the appraisal of the urban landscape assessment by the experts based on the systemic and perceptive factors that characterize the landscape. Its practical application to the Campanar area in Valencia has allowed us to validate it as a process that leads to the identification of values, pressures and driving forces; the evaluations are carried out in terms of quality objectives and actions to improve the quality of the urban environment.