Best regards and welcome to this humble blog.
resumed the activity, not as frequently as we should, to offer an interesting article written by Ethel Baraona blog within the City Living and section devoted to urban planning. The title of the article is "City and entropy: Proposal for a metabolic approach to the systems we live."
The choice of this article has seemed correct because it manages to highlight the significance of our acts, acts that go beyond body contour and immediate. This led to the plan and its global scale, we provide data spectacular, sometimes by monstrous.
hope you enjoy a quiet read of the proposed article. If so we will have achieved a double goal: your awareness to the common problems and enjoy a good read-or at least useful.
Planning until the next appointment, take care and be happy.
City and Entropia
film Powers Of 10 [1977] by Charles and Ray Eames [1] shows exponentially distances and a number of approaches from a couple
lying peacefully on a picnic. With this format, foreshadowing the current Google Earth, this film shows very clearly our relative position in a number of systems and subsystems that are organized in a way that we are still trying to learn. A scale from 10 (5) m we can see the city that is the family, blends with the environment to the point that costs to differentiate. After to make this short stroll to the microcosm of the macro cosmos, is very revealing to discover our position in this series of systems.
Mexico. Google Earth Image
If after this exercise level, we make another time and observe the Earth's history or level of cycles were able to see clearly the utter contingency of our presence on the planet . So in the era of biofuels, the surge climate change prophets of hybrid cars;
worth pausing for a moment and try to objectively perceive the real influence of our presence in the biosphere.
worth pausing for a moment and try to objectively perceive the real influence of our presence in the biosphere.
is much claim to believe that we can control the middle and the end of the materials and energy is to sustain our existence 
.
Slavoj Žižek, is questioned about these issues in his text
. mentioned earlier opinion
Censorship Today
[Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses] and which says: "We can not rely on the protective role the limited scope of our actions, as no longer tenable, and whatever we do, history will continue. "
The man and his achievements are only one element of the current cycle in the history of Earth. At this scale we can observe is that as organizations are organized and interact in a number of systems we call cities. These systems need a set of inputs for their livelihood, and his influence goes beyond their physical limits. An example of the latter ezel case of soybean, whose main production comes from South America [Argentina, Paraguay] but is consumed mainly in China. Olmo Calvo Rodríguez , SUB photojournalist, says:
In Paraguay there are more than 2,600,000 hectares planted with soy-double in 2001 - and last year there were 3, 8 million tons. Most of it is genetically modified. In addition to the expulsion of peasants, the products used for fumigation are considered highly dangerous toxic. soybeans in Paraguay
limit the growth of these systems by optimizing the use of resources, or to improve the technology. The limit is defined by the law
entropy describing the degradation of matter and energy in the universe and thus affects us and our accomplishments. The thermodynamic approach to our cities, we will see how smart I would rethink our patterns of growth. Realizing that our presence in the world had a beginning and will eventually end, and that is just part of a cycle.
In his book The End of History
[1992] Francis Fukuyama
[2] talks about the ethical and social implications of new techno-scientific developments (especially in bio-genetics). In his article was forced to admit that biogenetic intervention of human nature are the greatest threat to their vision of the end of the story and commenting
"History Should Be viewed as an evolutionary process." Žižek talks about the vision we had in the 1970's by the movement of scientists "green" Germany, which proposed that, since that nature is constantly changing conditions on Earth will make the survival of mankind is impossible beyond a couple of centuries, so the collective goal of humanity
ecology of the Earth with force and in order to freeze all changes so that its ecology continue remain basically the same. This allows the survival of humanity.
No doubt this is a proposal extreme and contrary to the balance of the biosphere 
our relationship with the environment resembles that of other agencies, which in turn are part of the
. Under this metabolic approach can then accept and find ways similar to those of nature, so that our lives as bodies also generate systems running so slow and not interrupted sharply. If instead of actively seek technological efficiency that allows us to maintain the level of energy and resources (call it growth or sustainable development), and ultimately creates better products for everyone ... but also better waste; understand and empower other connections between body [
. Under this metabolic approach can then accept and find ways similar to those of nature, so that our lives as bodies also generate systems running so slow and not interrupted sharply. If instead of actively seek technological efficiency that allows us to maintain the level of energy and resources (call it growth or sustainable development), and ultimately creates better products for everyone ... but also better waste; understand and empower other connections between body [
men] and systems [
cities], based on the exchange of relational goods 
is possible that this perception
, support of labor and property in the network, building code systems open to allow ownership and adaptation to the specific situation where applicable.
thermodynamics of our systems allow our transit organization in the history of the Earth may be the seed of new forms of organization that still can not even imagine and to nurture and mutate from DNA we leave in the form of organic detritus and waste inert or active in the nooks and corners of our cities today.
We finish quoting Ilya Prigogine [4], when he says: "I tried to emphasize that in our time, we are very far from the monolithic view of classical physics. Before us opens a universe of which we are only beginning to glimpse the structures. We discovered a fascinating world, as surprising and new as the scanning in childhood. [...] Today, almost at the end of the century, we remain unable to predict where we will take this new chapter of human history, but we can be confident that, with it, it opens a new dialogue between man and Nature. " - So just an illusion? , Ilya Prigogine
1997. Tusquets editors. Ethel Baraona Pohl +
Cesar Reyes -
So just an illusion? [1] Charles and Ray Eames web-site [2] Francis Fukuyama in wikipedia [3] Censorship Today [Violence, or Ecology as a New Opium for the Masses] Slavoj Žižek[4] Ilya Prigogine,
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