Urban Historic Landscape: Learning from a Lanscape City, Segovia

Abstract

The concept of Historic Urban Landscape is an ambitious idea stressed by a certain ambiguity in its application. Taking advantage of cases such as Segovia, intimately linked to the landscape by its configuration and the recent history of its instruments of heritage protection, we can learn how to interpret the landscape. Thus, we will come to approach a useful strategy to manage and protect historic urban spaces, and all this will be done by claiming the goodness of urban discipline. The proposed system recognizes three dimensions of landscape: geographical, morphological and scenic. All three have consolidated methods of analysis in the history of urbanism, and together they will facilitate an integrated knowledge of the urban landscape. Thus, with knowledge and intelligence, this instrument will allow a sustainable and flexible model of heritage management, while avoiding arbitrariness.