The historical landscapes of the production in Seville

Abstract

The research has as its subject of study Seville’s industrial heritage from the perspective of its landscape characterization following the UNESCO guidelines for Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) developed in the Guide to Urban Historic Landscape of Seville by the Andalusian Institute of Historical Heritage (IAPH) in which the author of this article participated. The methodology used allows us to overcome objectiveness, from which we usually approach the industrial heritage in the urban environment, either in its architectures and installations or in its machinery and tools, through the concept of Historical Landscapes of Production. Providing an innovative methodology, analysis and characterization of patrimonial, processional and multidisciplinary character. The central core of the study is based on understanding the insertion of industry in the city as part of a complex process formed diachronically in the territory, more extensive than specifically urban, by natural resources, infrastructures, productive spaces, technical procedures, energy models, production relations and symbolic structures, to know and characterize their heritage values. Starting from the theoretical paradigm of the City-Region, in which the industrial heritage is visibilized in its diversity as a landscape from the productive units that are structured in a scalar and temporal way, by their functionality, position and size, in the typologies denominated: structural landscape, articulating landscape and functional landscape, in the longue durée that goes from pre-industrial crafts, through protoindustrialization, to mechanized technologies of the industrial revolution. This conceptualization, and its methodology, can be transferred to other case studies through the necessary adaptations and corrections derived from the spatialtemporal singularities of each city.