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What criteria should be used for preserving an urban tree as a cultural heritage to be transmitted? Three hypotheses are examined in the case of the city of Tunis. The first relates to the environmental and aesthetic role played by trees, their useful contribution to the quality of life and health in the urban environment, and the need to preserve them to ensure the well-being of the population. The second hypothesis supports the idea that trees may be considered as monuments in the sense of evoking an urban memory. The third hypothesis concerns a personal, often symbolic or even religious attachment of the inhabitants to certain trees. The tree thus contributes to forging the identity of the inhabitants of the city by marking their living environment.

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This research is about the housing architectural development in the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) margins at the end of the Colonial Period. Both the Spanish strategy of domination in this area and a geopolitical need drew up the guidelines for the economic growth of this obscure and remote village of the Spanish Empire: “the forgotten village”. There was mass migration, both external and internal, within that context. This generated tension in the urban space as well as in the inner social system. The growing elite demanded increasing shares of commercial participation and power, made an intensive use of the urban land, and generated a new architectural aesthetic expressed in the formal language of the Neoclassicism. All these contributions guide and give theoretical support to another vision of this history. Therefore, in this thesis, they will enrich the research process and facilitate the weaving of the net by considering spatial variables, housing patterns, the use and occupation of the land, and the forms of economic accumulation and identity in its widest meaning. Through housing, we are able to “read” the inhabitants and interpret the houses’ social value.

The research project developed in this thesis aims at explaining the spatial, symbolic, technological and functional transformation, as well as the use of the houses, of the Rio de la Plata (River Plate) margins at the end of the Colonial Period. Both the Spanish strategy of domination in this area and a geopolitical need drew up the guidelines for the economic growth of this obscure and remote village of the Spanish Empire: “the forgotten village”. There was mass migration, both external and internal, within that context. This generated tension in the urban space as well as in the inner social system. The growing elite demanded increasing shares of commercial participation and power, made an intensive use of the urban land, and generated a “new” architectural aesthetic expressed in the formal language of the Neoclassicism. All these contributions guide and give theoretical support to another vision of the history. Therefore, in this thesis, they will enrich the research process and facilitate the weaving of the net by considering the spatial variables, housing patterns, the use and occupation of the land, and the forms of economic accumulation and identity in its widest meaning. Through housing, we are able to “read” the inhabitants and interpret the houses’ social value.