Fluvial landscape and territory planning. Perspectives of integration in the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires

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Abstract

The emergence of landscape as a concept associated with land planning in the context of the globalization process has resulted in the development of a wide range of tools and strategies aimed at assessing and intervening in everyday and degraded landscapes, including river landscapes. The Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (RMBA), where hydrographic basins represent a challenge in environmental matters, is a favorable territory to analyze the application of tools that, through the enhancement of the river landscape, promote the integration of the landscape into the planning. The present article aims to analyze the possibilities of integration of landscape policies within the land planning instruments in the RMBA, based on the analysis of a development strategy developed for del Gato stream, one of the streams that integrate this system. In a first part of the work the theoretical and methodological framework in relation to the fluvial landscape is addressed. Subsequently, the empirical phase is developed, which deepens the value of the landscape in the case study. Finally, we reflect on the possibilities of implementing this type of strategies within the current planning framework.

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fluvial landscape, Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires, territorial planning