The horizon line: Brasília and the preservation of its surrounding landscape
HUL, Buffer zone, Historical Urban Landscape, Brasília’s Urban Ensemble
For the preservation of urban heritage to be seen as an integral part of city development strategies, an understandig of the values inherent in each particular site is necessary. According to the Historic Urban Landscape Recommendation (2011), HUL, growth is transforming the essence of many historic urban areas, while urbanization provides economic, social and cultural development, these changes can also end up undermining the sense of place and identity of local communities. The quality of the urban environment has become a local, national and global concern, as cities will be society’s main dwelling place in the 21st century. Meanwhile, the understanding of what is cultural heritage has undergone changes over the 19th and 20th centuries. The expansions in the field of preservation have been adopting a more comprehensive approach, including intangible/imaterial aspects, urban contexts and surroundings. Starting from understanding that the buffer zone of a listed property would be inserted in the layers that make up the historical urban landscape and considering that with the expansion of the surrounding’s concept, the consideration of merely physical aspects in the approaches of this concept would be overcome, we established the following main question: How can the new approaches brought by heritage charters on the concept of surroundings and landscape, help preservation and urban development measures, bringing useful procedures for application in the surroundings of listed properties?