Resumen de Landscape by the catalogue, tensions and misalignments in the building, house by house, of the Mediterranean dream
This paper is part of an ongoing investigation on the urbanization processesderived from tourism that, focused on the Costa Blanca, Spain, aims to rethinksome planning tools in contemporary landscape urbanism. In this case, I departfrom the importance of the landscape catalogue in the implementation of theEuropean Landscape Convention (ELC) and the difficulties found in practiceto put into effect its democratic approach. I take the landscape catalogue as afertile space for rethinking how landscape is created collectively nowadays andI present reflections on research in the early days of catalogue making and onfieldwork done participating in the tensions and misalignments in the building,house by house, of the Mediterranean dream in the Costa Blanca, Spain. Thisway, I put side by side the making of catalogues and the use of cataloguesby inhabitants in building warehouses, plant nurseries or prefabricatedelements, to see how, in both, the elements of the catalogue undergo a similarabstraction, being cut out from the field. Exploring the use of catalogues Iintend to question the making of catalogues and to be able to rethink pre-givendefinitions of how a landscape is characterized through the study of how alandscape is changed in practice.
