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Talk:Assignment 4: Landscape Concepts in comparison

2010-12-12T17:00:55Z

Hampem: /* Literature and Dictionaries */

Dear participants,

Please use this page as a forum if you have general questions concerning this assignment. Thank you!

Hi Everybody!

I'm a little bit stuck with this literature looking, maybe you could help me. My questions are:

1. What type of literature exactly, should I look for?

I have already a poem what describes the "ideal" landscape of the era, it is idillic and romantic , but only describes a small segment of the country. It rather deals with the past, then with the future.

Then I have the definition of the landscape by the hungarian landscape architect profession. But that reflects only the bigger part of the landscape architect's opinion, other professions which also "constructing" the landscape don't agree with this definition. However that definition can be related to the concepts of future landscapes, because even today it is the "starting point" in the hungarian l.a. profession, education.

2. Should the literature be academic kind, or could I choose from other areas (for example as the poem mentioned above)?

Should I cite from Hungary's regional development concept? That exactly deals with the future of the hungarian landscape, but I think it's too large for the purpose, both in quantity and scale.

Or should I look for regulations?

3. Hungary is a small country, but even so it consist from many, totally different landscapes, so we can't tell it is just like this or that. Therefore each landscape is treated uniquely, and must be treated uniquely, and (I suppose, not yet sure) there are different literature for the different places... But of course, there are general regulations, for example in the regional development concept, and as I mentioned, maybe too large. So which landscape should I choose? Maybe that in which I'm living?

Well, as I wrote it down helped me to think already, but I post it, maybe there are some constructive ideas... :)

Balázs Dukai

== Literature and Dictionaries ==

Dear Balasz, I think it might be interesting to look at the lexical definition in Hungarian because this shall give a good summary of the common understanding (which is usually more or less different from the professional understanding). So a look at some bigger Hungarian encyclopaedia should help, I would say. I think we should not look into different regional landscape types as this would lead to a very broad discussion. So keep it broad and general- the lexical definition + the poem is good for the common understanding, a short summary of the regional plan's definition should be enough for the professional perspective (plus some aspect of the landscape architects' view if you wish) Ellen

Hello Balasz, (hello Ellen) what a nice surprise to find you in the discussion page!
I wanted to thank you for the bicycle trip through the Serbian city, Magyarkanizsa (paahh!) with You Tube!
What a good idea!
Hello everybody!
I wanted also to thank Beate Scharbach for the trip through Freiburg, what a beautiful German city!
And I will never forgive Kun and Wei for that perfect movie from Kassel, good work!
I felt like a little fly!

Balasz, we have also problems to find the right concepts for “landscape” in our cultural background (Uruguay).
And I must confess, that the way landscape concepts are managed in this forum brings me to a bit of confusion. Can we really think of a desirable future landscape?
Or should we all work for a future better world with eco friendly materials, sustainable, 0 energy costs, without cars and planes, with more justice and so on?
I think that a concept of landscape is something more complex, more fragile, not standard, a social construct which depends of every human being.
Of course we should all work for projects like Eva Lanxmeer in the Netherlands, like that of Buffalo Bayou in United States, like that for the coast of the city of Tallinn in Estonia!
Or for a cultural approach, like that of the Independence Square of Tallinn, or the square in Las Piedras, Uruguay.
And let us hope that this project “Greeting to the Sun” in Zadar, Croatia, will have also over time a low ecological footprint.
And that, when we will not need the factories anymore, that here will be a political will to transform a zone like the Ruhr Gebiet in an Emscher Park, Germany.
But what happens to places where factories are working? Automobile industries, high technology industries. Installations for our resources of energy. How shall we manage the territory where they are installed? How will we perceive them, aren´t they part of what we think is our landscape?
What does Uruguay have to say to foreign investors, when they install their industrial plant in our country, because in Europe they don´t want them? Shall we believe them, when they tell us, that the factory is built with eco friendly materials, that they are sustainable, and have 0 energy costs?
What sense has it to waste our time with landscape concepts, if tomorrow the Shenyang Architectural University Campus in China will tell us, that, or we plant everywhere a rice paddy or we will starve?
Just some comments to some of these great efforts for this wonderful Landscape Forum!
Thank you Ellen, thank you Heike and those who are on behalf of this forum and make us think together!
Greetings
From Babi
(María Teresa Hampe) from Montevideo, Uruguay.

Future Landscapes Group 5

2010-11-24T19:50:27Z

Hampem:

--> Back to [[Assignment_3:_Future_landscapes|overview of assignment 3]]

== Case Studies ==
=== [[Case Study Montevideo 1]] ===
=== [[Case Study Kassel Group|Case Study Kassel]] ===
=== [[Case Study Tartu 3]] ===

== Core Questions ==
''Attention: this is a dynamic page list, the answers written in your case studies will appear automatically here. Do not edit this second paragraph.''

=== In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
Comment to work of Kassel from Montevideo:
The necessity of food production in a country with limited tillable land makes that a simple rice paddy, being just a cultivable territory, becomes part of the cultural identity of China and transforms itself in a possible target-landscape for the nation.

Comment to work of Tartu from Montevideo:
The Independence Square in Tallinn is a typical example for an urban space with an important history and which needs to connect different parts of the city. As far as society needs a place which represents it, these squares will be part of our future landscape.

<DPL>
category=Future Landscapes Group 5 Case Study
mode=ordered
include = #Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes?
</DPL>

=== What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===
Comment to work of Kassel from Montevideo:
The Shenyang Architectural University Campus in China is a very good example for the study of a case that soon will be a problem for all the world. Thought in these terms, it is clear that for the concept of landscape the aesthetic component would not be so much important. A landscape architecture ought to redefine its role towards this situation.

Comment to work of Tartu from Montevideo:
Just in September 2010 a group of architects won the architectural competition for the redesign of our Independence Square in Montevideo. Citizens of Montevideo are now looking at the plans. And many people say: Who did ask us what we wanted?
And we ask you, if the problems with the Statue of Liberty in the Square of Tallinn did not happen because people were not consulted before the redesign. Maybe the role of a landscape architect in such a project should consider the public consultation like in the Punta Yeguas Park.

<DPL>
category=Future Landscapes Group 5 Case Study
mode=ordered
include = #Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project?
</DPL>

== Comparative Analysis ==
*Which major similarities and differences could you identify in those two case studies?

''Please write your thoughts here''

== Synthesis and Outlook ==

''please write your thoughts here, you may add concept maps and sketches.''
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Future Landscapes Group 5

2010-11-24T19:21:58Z

Hampem:

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:56:58Z

Hampem:

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Case Study of Punta Yeguas Park on Montevideo Coastline, by Cecilia Curbelo and María Teresa Hampe

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' Punta Yeguas Park
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.

- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds

- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.

The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo

o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, edited by Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo

o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
----
[[Category:Case Study]]
[[Category:Future Landscapes Group 5 Case Study]]
About categories: You can add more categories with this tag: "[[Category:Category Name]]", add your categories

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:52:22Z

Hampem:

---> back to overview of [[Future Landscapes Group 5]]

Case Study of Punta Yeguas Park on Montevideo Coastline, by Cecilia Curbelo and María Teresa Hampe

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' Punta Yeguas Park
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo

o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, edited by Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo

o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
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[[Category:Future Landscapes Group 5 Case Study]]
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:51:42Z

Hampem:

---> back to overview of [[Future Landscapes Group 5]]

'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''
Case Study of Punta Yeguas Park on Montevideo Coastline, by Cecilia Curbelo and María Teresa Hampe

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' Punta Yeguas Park
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo

o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, edited by Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo

o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
----
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:50:32Z

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'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' Punta Yeguas Park
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo

o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, edited by Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo

o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
----
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:48:03Z

Hampem:

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'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' Punta Yeguas Park
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo

o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, editado en Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo

o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
----
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:45:12Z

Hampem:

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'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo

o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, editado en Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo

o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
----
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T21:43:33Z

Hampem:

---> back to overview of [[Future Landscapes Group 5]]

'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:working for PY.jpg|your image text
Image:viewPY.jpg|your image text
Image:vegetationPY.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

o DINAMA (2008) “Uruguay and the convention on Biological Diversity: Advances and challenges”, edited by the Ministery of Housing, Territorial Planning and Environment, Montevideo
o Seminario Taller de planificación Participativa Junta Departamental Montevideo, 2007 “Diseñando juntos el Parque Público Punta Yeguas”, editado en Gráfica Don Bosco, Montevideo
o Sieverts, Thomas (1997) “Cities without cities. An interpretation of the Zwischenstadt” edited in English 2003 by Spon Spress, London
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2010-11-23T21:40:17Z

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File:ViewPY.jpg

2010-11-23T21:37:43Z

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File:Working for PY.jpg

2010-11-23T21:36:07Z

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T20:52:56Z

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:StaCata1867.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T20:49:23Z

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

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2010-11-23T20:45:47Z

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T20:42:23Z

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

----
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T20:41:39Z

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

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Punta Yeguas Park

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T20:35:36Z

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

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Image:Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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Punta Yeguas Park

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T20:33:54Z

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Mapa_PYeguas.jpg|140px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>
Punta Yeguas Park

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Case Study Montevideo 1

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{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| Punta Yeguas Park|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|Western Montevideo|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|Uruguay|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|Council of Montevideo and citizens of Western Montevideo
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"| Citizens of Montevideo
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|In process since 2006|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[aerea .jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

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Punta Yeguas Park

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:49:57Z

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''country''
|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|''office or planner/designer''
|-
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|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
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</googlemap>
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=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

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Punta Yeguas Park

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:48:40Z

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|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''country''
|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|''office or planner/designer''
|-
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|-
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=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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aerea PYeguas

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File:Aerea Punta Yeguas.jpg

2010-11-23T19:46:34Z

Hampem:

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:36:28Z

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''location''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''country''
|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|''office or planner/designer''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''please enter the client here''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
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</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

A territory suffers the tensions of different agents: The future landscape depends of the regards of local people and what they expect for their landscape, the benefits of the government and global economical interests. The results of this pressure will have different consequences, which have to be considered by a landscape planner.
According to Thomas Sieverts (1997) “the protection of nature is essential in order to retain the “historical” nature as an object of living experience in the city”.
In this project a landscape planner has an ethical debt to support and promote local people who are working hard for managing their natural environment. But as a part of an eco-region an integrated design of this park to the rest of the coast and the rural district is necessary and possibilities a continuum with the rest of the coast. This makes possible different lectures (esthetic, cultural, economical) of Montevideo’s coastline, with a gradual transformation from urban to rural and natural backgrounds.
The combination of the professional vision of landscape planner with the aspirations of social groups, the knowledge of the legal framework and the ecological conditions of the coast are the clues to find the necessary links between nature and urbanism.

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:35:12Z

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|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''location''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''country''
|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|''office or planner/designer''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''please enter the client here''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
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</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The area is used mainly by the local population, but in the summer people arrive from all Montevideo. The different offers of sports, the recreation possibilities and the natural sight, makes the place very attractive.

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

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Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
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=== References ===
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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:34:39Z

Hampem: /* Analysis of design/planning process */

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'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''

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| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''name of project''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''location''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''country''
|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|''office or planner/designer''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''please enter the client here''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

The design process is the result of the dynamic teamwork of the people of the neighborhood, with the collaboration of professional of the council and other volunteers. The planning method used was “Participatory planning for scenarios formalized with planning management” by the project PPGA (Planificación Participativa y Gestión Asociada) from FLACSO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales).
But the focus of the problem is just the area of Punta Yeguas. It is necessary to overview the connection with the rest of western coastline to have a harmonious interrelationship with other structural elements of the territory.

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

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Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:34:00Z

Hampem: /* Analysis of program/function */

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'''add your case study title''' by ''add authors''

{| align="right" width="300pt" style="background:Gainsboro; color:black"
|-
| '''Name''' ||style="background:Lavender"| ''name of project''
|-
| '''Location''' || style="background:Lavender"|''location''
|-
| '''Country''' || style="background:Lavender"|''country''
|-
| '''Office''' || style="background:Lavender"|''office or planner/designer''
|-
| '''Client''' || style="background:Lavender"|''please enter the client here''
|-
| '''Completion''' || style="background:Lavender"|''Please enter the date of completion''
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| [[Image:projectimage.jpg|300px]]
|-
| ||style="background:Lavender"|
|-
| colspan="3" align="center" style="background:silver"| <googlemap version="0.9" lat="-23.581609" lon="-46.590271" type="satellite" zoom="9" width="300" height="250">
</googlemap>
|}

=== Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? ===
test, test

The Uruguayan economy depends mainly on their natural resources, but in turn it is trying to maintain the objective of Uruguay "Natural Country".
The pressure on the natural environment of Montevideo is given by the invasion of different economic activities and by population concentration. A clear example of this situation is its coastline: a great urbanization has taken place in its 22 km, which is making pressure on the more natural western coastland with the invasion of different economical activities.
The area of Punta Yeguas Park shows an edge where city and nature meet each another.
Since more than ten years a group of local people is working for protecting this area from devastation. 2006 the Council of Montevideo expropriated this area from private hands to destiny it as a public park and local people work for the design and the managing of the park.
With the work of local people, who feel indentified with the environment, this project can mean the correct implementation of biological, infrastructural and cultural topics in a territory. A project,which will be easily managed in future, because it is sustained by its own people.

=== Landscape and/or urban context===
*Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

Illustration:
Map; sketches; short descriptive analyses

The Punta Yeguas Park is an area of 103 hectares on the coast of the River Plate between the settlement Santa Catalina and the stony border of Punta Yeguas.
The principal landscape feature of this zone is that it looks like a rolling plain with a smooth slope from the route till the coast. On the River Plate are consecutives beaches of dunes of sand, with some prairies and small forests on the top, a some wetland and a stream. The vegetation has different types of forest, indigenous and imported. The vegetation of important size are mostly pines and eucalyptus, both exotic. This park is part of an eco-region with diversity of fish and invertebrates, as well as important mammal and bird colonies.

=== Cultural/social/political context===
*Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

Illustration:
Bullet points, image, background notes

According to the legal framework of the “POT” (Plan de Ordenamiento Territorial de Montevideo), this zone is included as an “Area of Environmental Recover” (Área de Recuperación Ambiental).
This area was in private hands till 2006, exposed to devastation. The owners extracted sand in excess, not taking into account the legal framework that protects the ecosystem in the region. Simultaneously the forest was being destructed because of the commercialization of wood.
People of the environment felt identified with this particular coast side, and felt that is was losing its natural features. The settlements of Western Montevideo are mostly poor and many of them are situated in illegal properties. So they put them self together, but had no economical recourses to manage the situation.
Finally they integrated a representative group of Western Montevideo, so that they could handle and come to an agreement with the Council of Montevideo: In the year 2006, the Council began to expropriate this area from private hands for the destiny of a public park.
Still then and till today they are working for this park trying to achieve their goals.

=== Spatial analysis of area/project/plan===
*What are the main structural features?
*How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

As the project aims to promote the general natural features of the western Coastline, the infrastructure proposed for the area has to respect present landmarks and the biological components. It has been shaped to give more value to nature.

=== Analysis of program/function ===
* What are the main functional characteristics?
* How have they been expressed or incorporated?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

Goals of the plan(1):
- recover a collective space for the city, managed by the neighbors.
- integrate recreational and cultural activities with the natural features of the coast, the sighting of birds
- create social responsibility on the use of space, its flora and fauna.
The planning is based in a zoning of the different activities: camping, sports, a cultural center with the possibility for a museum, a multi center, an information center.
The necessary infrastructures imply paths for walking, jogging and cycling, lighting, signaling the services offered in the area, and the identification of the different vegetation, among others.

(1)Seminario Taller Parque Público Punta Yeguas, 2007

=== Analysis of design/planning process ===
* How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
*Were there any important consultations/collaborations?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Analysis of use/users ===
* How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
* Is the use changing? Are there any issues?
Illustration: Map/diagram/sketches photos and background notes

=== Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project? ===

=== You may add 1-2 more core questions as discussed in your group ===

=== Image Gallery ===

<gallery caption=" " widths="150px" heights="150px" perrow="5">
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
Image:yourimage.jpg|your image text
</gallery>

=== References ===
Please add literature, documentations and weblinks

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About categories: You can add more categories with this tag: "[[Category:Category Name]]", add your categories

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:32:07Z

Hampem: /* Spatial analysis of area/project/plan */

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:30:55Z

Hampem: /* Cultural/social/political context */

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:30:04Z

Hampem: /* Landscape and/or urban context */

Case Study Montevideo 1

2010-11-23T19:29:20Z

Hampem: /* Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes? */

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T20:01:33Z

Hampem:

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== '''Cecilia Curbelo, Rafael Dodera and María Teresa Hampe''' ==

=== Images ===
<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Park Rodo Montevideo.jpg|Park Rodo Coastline Montevideo
Image:Coastline South Montev 2.jpg|Coastline South Montevideo
Image:Cerro Coastline Montev 3.JPG|Cerro Coastline Montevideo
</gallery>

=== Description ===

The city of our University, Montevideo, is situated on the south coast of Uruguay on the River of the Plate. Its climate is temperate, but the predominantly gently undulating geography makes our countryside vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts.
The foundation of the city dates from 1725 and was founded as a strategic move between a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. As most of the pre-Columbian inhabitants have been defeated, the generality of the residents of the country descends from European immigrants. Currently Montevideo has about 1.4 million inhabitants.
What most distinguishes our city in Uruguay is its 30 km coastline, besides the bay and the seaport. This coastal strip delineates the space of the "sea" Río de la Plata with its changing nature with the urbanized space. The 22 km long avenue along the coast, “rambla”, created for mobility, gives our city a constant in its appearance. On one side the rocks and the beaches, the sea has its limit on the skyline with the sky as a continuous line, on the other side of the rambla different types of edifications, parks and squares show the mark of human actions.
The pictures show three views of our coastal strip, where you can always see the main city in the ground:
In the front of the first is an urban park, which was created on dunes of sand at the beginning of the twenties siècle. Its artificial vegetation is almost exotic, but you can find also some indigenous specimen, responding to recent ecological requests of our countryman. This part of the rambla is the most visited all over the year, because of its urban and geographic location, protected of the wind. In summer its beach is used for bathing and swimming.
In the second picture dominates the urban shape with its strip itself. This kind of wall suffers with the inclement and storms: With its foundations on the rocks next to the sea it has to be repaired form time to time. In the back you see the cranes of the seaport, and on your left the other coast of our bay.
The third picture is taken from a large suburban park on the other side of our bay. Although this side has a beautiful view on the bay and the main city, it is visited by a restricted part of our population: great part of the poor population of Montevideo lives on this side of the bay.
Depending of climate the seaside will change its scenery: when polar air masses move from the south and the waves moisten the avenue, only birds and a few fishermen will visit the rambla. But with temperate climate, people arrive from everywhere to carry out activities of entertainment, recreation, sports, jogging or meeting. The rambla is a democratic space in our city, where everyone takes part without differentiation of ages, social classes, cultural or religious ideas. Above all the rambla is an area of social identity.

File:Cerro Coastline Montev 3.JPG

2010-10-24T20:00:10Z

Hampem:

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:59:19Z

Hampem:

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== '''Cecilia Curbelo, Rafael Dodera and María Teresa Hampe''' ==

=== Images ===
<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Park Rodo Montevideo.jpg|Park Rodo Coastline Montevideo
Image:Coastline South Montev 2.jpg|Coastline South Montevideo
Image:image_03.jpg|image title
</gallery>

=== Description ===

The city of our University, Montevideo, is situated on the south coast of Uruguay on the River of the Plate. Its climate is temperate, but the predominantly gently undulating geography makes our countryside vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts.
The foundation of the city dates from 1725 and was founded as a strategic move between a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. As most of the pre-Columbian inhabitants have been defeated, the generality of the residents of the country descends from European immigrants. Currently Montevideo has about 1.4 million inhabitants.
What most distinguishes our city in Uruguay is its 30 km coastline, besides the bay and the seaport. This coastal strip delineates the space of the "sea" Río de la Plata with its changing nature with the urbanized space. The 22 km long avenue along the coast, “rambla”, created for mobility, gives our city a constant in its appearance. On one side the rocks and the beaches, the sea has its limit on the skyline with the sky as a continuous line, on the other side of the rambla different types of edifications, parks and squares show the mark of human actions.
The pictures show three views of our coastal strip, where you can always see the main city in the ground:
In the front of the first is an urban park, which was created on dunes of sand at the beginning of the twenties siècle. Its artificial vegetation is almost exotic, but you can find also some indigenous specimen, responding to recent ecological requests of our countryman. This part of the rambla is the most visited all over the year, because of its urban and geographic location, protected of the wind. In summer its beach is used for bathing and swimming.
In the second picture dominates the urban shape with its strip itself. This kind of wall suffers with the inclement and storms: With its foundations on the rocks next to the sea it has to be repaired form time to time. In the back you see the cranes of the seaport, and on your left the other coast of our bay.
The third picture is taken from a large suburban park on the other side of our bay. Although this side has a beautiful view on the bay and the main city, it is visited by a restricted part of our population: great part of the poor population of Montevideo lives on this side of the bay.
Depending of climate the seaside will change its scenery: when polar air masses move from the south and the waves moisten the avenue, only birds and a few fishermen will visit the rambla. But with temperate climate, people arrive from everywhere to carry out activities of entertainment, recreation, sports, jogging or meeting. The rambla is a democratic space in our city, where everyone takes part without differentiation of ages, social classes, cultural or religious ideas. Above all the rambla is an area of social identity.

File:Park Rodo Montevideo.jpg

2010-10-24T19:57:00Z

Hampem:

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:55:53Z

Hampem:

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== '''Cecilia Curbelo, Rafael Dodera and María Teresa Hampe''' ==

=== Images ===
<gallery caption=" " widths="200px" heights="150px" perrow="3">
Image:Park Rodó Coastline Montev1.JPG| The coastline in Montevideo
Image:Coastline South Montev 2.jpg|Coastline South Montevideo
Image:image_03.jpg|image title
</gallery>

=== Description ===

The city of our University, Montevideo, is situated on the south coast of Uruguay on the River of the Plate. Its climate is temperate, but the predominantly gently undulating geography makes our countryside vulnerable to rapid changes from weather fronts.
The foundation of the city dates from 1725 and was founded as a strategic move between a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. As most of the pre-Columbian inhabitants have been defeated, the generality of the residents of the country descends from European immigrants. Currently Montevideo has about 1.4 million inhabitants.
What most distinguishes our city in Uruguay is its 30 km coastline, besides the bay and the seaport. This coastal strip delineates the space of the "sea" Río de la Plata with its changing nature with the urbanized space. The 22 km long avenue along the coast, “rambla”, created for mobility, gives our city a constant in its appearance. On one side the rocks and the beaches, the sea has its limit on the skyline with the sky as a continuous line, on the other side of the rambla different types of edifications, parks and squares show the mark of human actions.
The pictures show three views of our coastal strip, where you can always see the main city in the ground:
In the front of the first is an urban park, which was created on dunes of sand at the beginning of the twenties siècle. Its artificial vegetation is almost exotic, but you can find also some indigenous specimen, responding to recent ecological requests of our countryman. This part of the rambla is the most visited all over the year, because of its urban and geographic location, protected of the wind. In summer its beach is used for bathing and swimming.
In the second picture dominates the urban shape with its strip itself. This kind of wall suffers with the inclement and storms: With its foundations on the rocks next to the sea it has to be repaired form time to time. In the back you see the cranes of the seaport, and on your left the other coast of our bay.
The third picture is taken from a large suburban park on the other side of our bay. Although this side has a beautiful view on the bay and the main city, it is visited by a restricted part of our population: great part of the poor population of Montevideo lives on this side of the bay.
Depending of climate the seaside will change its scenery: when polar air masses move from the south and the waves moisten the avenue, only birds and a few fishermen will visit the rambla. But with temperate climate, people arrive from everywhere to carry out activities of entertainment, recreation, sports, jogging or meeting. The rambla is a democratic space in our city, where everyone takes part without differentiation of ages, social classes, cultural or religious ideas. Above all the rambla is an area of social identity.

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:53:40Z

Hampem:

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:51:58Z

Hampem:

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:50:57Z

Hampem:

File:Coastline South Montev 2.jpg

2010-10-24T19:50:15Z

Hampem:

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:49:04Z

Hampem:

Pictures of our Landscapes BIOS Group 1

2010-10-24T19:48:10Z

Hampem:

File:Park Rodó Coastline Montev1.jpg

2010-10-24T19:44:28Z

Hampem: uploaded a new version of "Image:Park Rodó Coastline Montev1.jpg"

File:Park Rodó Coastline Montev1.jpg

2010-10-24T19:43:57Z

Hampem:

File:View of Montevideo.JPG

2010-10-18T17:52:32Z

Hampem: Our city of Montevideo is a town of about 1,4 million people, situated in the southern coast of Uruguay on the river Plate. In the front of the picture we can see a park, boardering the "rambla", our avenue on the coast. In the back we see the skyline of

Our city of Montevideo is a town of about 1,4 million people, situated in the southern coast of Uruguay on the river Plate. In the front of the picture we can see a park, boardering the "rambla", our avenue on the coast.
In the back we see the skyline of the city.