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This chapter analyzes theoretical contributions that serve as a basis for the development of the proposed method.
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The works of Lynch (1960) in The Image of the City, of Jacobs (1961) in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and Alexander (1977) in A Pattern Language - Towns, Buildings, Construction, are fundamental contributions that call great attention to the relation between settlements, roadways and open spaces in cities.
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Some authors distinguish nature and artifacts relating to nature as biotic and abiotic resources (living and non-living organisms), which do not need external energy for their development, and artifacts as the anthropogenic environment (urban occupation) and the anthropic environment (exploration of the environment), which need external energy for their development (Bolós 1992).
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The landscape [as a causal system] is the formal outcome of different physical and biological relationships, a simultaneous consequence of a process and a geological structure, and the result of the actions of elements of the climate, biological occupation and the relationships between different energy flows. In areas heavily occupied by humans, the landscape is largely an artifact, since the natural area has been cleared and plowed, parceled, built on and even irreversibly altered from its most basic natural conditions. In these situations, the landscape is often figuratively compared to a palimpsest, in the sense that it can track and interpret the traces of various historical periods and different human interventions. The landscape has materialized different solutions that different generations, applying different technical specifications, have been given the right to occupy and use. (Zoido 2002, p. 24, translated from the original)
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A system is defined by a node, a periphery and the energy through which the pioneering features developed and located in the center can be projected on the periphery, which will thereby be modified by them. It is only from this scheme that we will be able to systematically capture the articulations of the space and understand its nature. This should make defining each piece of land possible, in an exact and special way. Each spatial system and its corresponding locations appear then as a result of the interaction between relationships; the analysis will be so much more rigorous as we are capable of avoiding the confrontations between simple variables that most of the time lead to causative analysis or to cause-and-effect relationships that artificially isolate certain variables and prevent covering the totality of the interactions. Whenever one system substitutes another, it is because the spatial system is always the consequence of the projection of one or more historic systems. Since the space contains characteristics of the different corresponding ages, this focus should allow for a more careful and more systematic interpretation of the remnants and affiliations. (Santos 2002, p. 79, translated from the original)
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Tardin, R. (2013). Conceptual Questions. In: System of Open Spaces. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4352-0_2
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