The diluted approach: Safeguarding Necochea-Quequén’s domestic heritage based on the binomial property-user.

Abstract

To safeguard the domestic heritage of middle-sized Latin American cities constitutes a pending challenge. In this difficult task, to understand the relationship between properties and their users is critical in order to come up with answers. However, such an approach sometimes ends up washed away by many researches and ensuing protectionist guidelines. For this reason, this article addresses this approach within a specific territory and a local protectionist framework by means of an analysis of user awareness of domestic-heritage properties in Necochea- Quequén. This intermediate agglomeration that features multiple complexities within the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, is approached from historical-architectural and social variables.