Urban landscape quality management and monitoring: A methodological proposal to study the case of Porto, Portugal
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2018
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IGI Global
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English
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The issue of the landscape quality or, more precisely, of its goal was addressed in the European Landscape
Convention in 2000 to guide the public authorities and the aspirations of the population concerning
their characteristics. It also happens regarding the landscape management that leads the authors to a
sustainable development preservation, orientating and conciliating the changes that result from the human
interaction with the environment. For a research on urban landscapes management, it is proposed
a methodological analysis to the case study of Porto (Portugal) with a historical approach to understand
how the increasing pressure of tourism is manifested on its image. The main goal is to identify the quality
of the landscape and guide its sustainability towards a constant monitoring of images perception.
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10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch016
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Freitas, I. V, Marques, J., Rodrigues, C. A., & Sousa, C. (2018). Urban landscape quality management and monitoring: A methodological proposal to study the case of Porto, Portugal. In I. S. Rosa, J. C. Lopes, R. Ribeiro, & A. Mendes (Eds), Handbook of Research on Methods and Tools for Assessing Cultural Landscape Adaptation (chapter 16, pp. 396-413). Disponível no Repositório UPT, http://hdl.handle.net/11328/2248
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