Resumen

BARTORILA, Miguel Ángel. A study of the significant ecological areas of the Montevideo Territorial Code Plan. Nova scientia [online]. 2011, vol.3, n.5, pp.64-84. ISSN 2007-0705.

In metropolitan areas the natural and the artificial environments struggle and compete one against the other. Their developments, apparently disconnected, have important points in common. The interest to address, at the same level, the processes that conform the natural ecosystems and the urban artifact open the way to the study of the ecosystems in the city and the network urbanism (Dupuy, 1998). This article presents the partial results of a research (doctoral dissertation) that attempts to point out the importance of the determination of the so-called significant ecological areas in the practice of urbanism. Through the case study of the city of Montevideo, Uruguay, are identified the social and temporarily details of the natural ecosystems in the city, identifying the way in which they are recognized and integrated in the territorial code. There are instruments of analysis and studies that allow or collaborate in the spatially complex determination of the natural reality of the land. The revision of the work of different authors will be used to understand the way in which the knowledge and interrelationship of the ecosystems and the city has been studied and interpreted, which accordingly will allow to obtain urban instruments to demarcate and reevaluate the intra and "peri-urban" natural ecosystems.

Palabras llave : Montevideo; natural ecosystems; territorial code; urban ecotones.