Territorial Identity, Conceptual Construction and Urban Analysis Strategy

This text seeks to elucidate the notion of identity associated with urban planning and relates it directly to the concept of heritage system, integrating various components of the latter as key factors to support a methodological proposal for an integral reading of the territory that relates time and space as defining axes. A new vision of the concept of heritage, far from a monumental conception, necessarily requires new ways of reading it, observing it, tracking it and keeping record of it. The characteristic elements of the identity that this text exposes, al­low an objective search, traces, facts, symbols and manifestations that, beyond the institutional declarations of heritage, legitimize a cultural relationship of a community with its territory and materialize as manifestation, evidence and consolidation over time in the heritage system.