Landscape units in degraded metropolitan basins. Del Gato stream, Argentina

Abstract

The concept of landscape has been part of the academic discussion of the last two decades, approached by different disciplines both from a theoretical and methodological perspective, occupying an important place in territorial planning. In this framework, methodologies have been developed to identify landscape units that, from a qualitative perspective, link natural and cultural aspects, and give a fundamental weight to social perception. Based on the critical analysis of these methods that consider the value of everyday and degraded landscapes, a methodology is proposed to delimit landscape units in degraded basins of the Metropolitan Region of Buenos Aires (RMBA), which could be useful to give a landscape recognition to historically ignored rivers and streams, and to give entity to the basin as a unit of land management and territorial management.