The study which gave rise to this article, understands the landscape as a social construction linked to a collective recognition of a mental image based on the experience of space. From this recognition, it is establish that the incorporation of urban design fundaments in the conception of the public space of residential areas, improving their qualities, making them valued as landscape. In this sense, the study offers an instrument for the analysis and evaluation of such spaces, linking the criteria derived from three different but complementary approaches to help the comprehension of the landscape, and the identification of variables (fundaments) that allow building an integral analysis. From these concepts, the sustainable approach provides an ecological vision of the human processes, establishing the construction of the residential (housing) landscape in terms of sustainability, specially related to the achievements of qualities of urban space associated to the comfort.