From cultural landscape to territorial heritage, and vice versa: a required conversion for a landscape project from heritage

Abstract

The article focuses on the necessary translation of cultural landscape heritage and identity values into the material sediments comprising the territorial heritage for a landscape project. It is aimed to disclose the sort of relationship between the cultural landscape and the territorial heritage, which shall eventually allow us to move from one concept to another. This is made by means of a comparative-descriptive analysis. The conceptualization done by some authors of the Territorialist Society to define the integrated plan for territory is taken as a reference. Therefore, the broad sense of the territorial heritage embraces cultural landscape heritage and identity values. The alignment with the territorialist presumptions pursues an effective integration of the landscape values when operating on the territory through a landscape architecture and to have an impact on landscape, even when there is neither a prescriptive nor a regulatory framework that may address to innovation in this regard.