For a landscape policy in urban municipal planning – The paradigm of Salvador-BA, Brazil

This text reflects on what comes to be landscape, through a visit to its history in brief lines, and what is its role in law. How the latter supports it in the Brazilian ordering from federal to municipal level. Likewise, it explores the curious theme under the construction of a historical teleological hermeneutics, touching on the sense of managing the landscape to maximize the socioeconomic well-being of the population of Salvador. The research carried out was of a descriptive nature, the method, which provided the logical bases, was the hermeneutic-phenomenological method. The collection of data and information was carried out through bibliographic searches. It is concluded, at the end, that the Master Plan of Salvador needs regulation in landscape matters, complex and dynamic cultural asset, which needs its own Landscape Plan, in a law that guarantees popular participation, under the terms of the Right to the City, in pursuit of sustainable development. To this end, it is essential to have a Public Policy in favor of the landscape, whose aim is to improve the quality of social and economic life and to accommodate movement within the city to stimulate income distribution.