This work aims to verify how historical landmarks in metropolitan environments can be used as reference for the territorial planning of neighborhoods, bringing the symbolic dimensions to the political scene to better understand new urban functions. By using the point of view of the Master Plan of the city of Rio de Janeiro on the organization of the environmental and cultural aspects of the territory, we will analyze how the neighborhood of Flamengo is inserted in the territorial division called Macrozona Controlada. For this purpose, we will use municipal legislation as a basis for the perception of public policies related to culture and the environment in local management. Thus, we intend to understand how spaces have been reorganized through time, how historical, political and social aspects became interrelated and resulted in the current logistics, so that, in this way, we may see how the proposed zoning fits into the cultural and environmental aspects to meet potential needs. In our theoretical foundation, the concepts of landscape, territory and place will be worked out to emphasize the relation of man and his space as well as the transformations arising from this relationship. The territory represented as a construction by and from power relations can also be understood in the discussion about the formation and organization of human players activity in the neighborhood. As a methodological process, we will use the bibliographic analysis of books and documents concerning the formation of the city of Rio de Janeiro as well as its expansion and urbanization process to other zones of the Rio metropolis. Fieldwork to collect information and images will be carried out by the researcher.