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We find it extremely gratifying to see the existence of positions of reflexivity in regard to the nature of the city. The treatment of it, part of an organismic premise that is comparable to the metabolism of a large living-with their needs and conditions.
addition, we find it rewarding the commitment to a livable city, a city with a high rate of mystification of applications that is capable of independently solving their needs. Always in more areas reduced to subsist on the link with other parts of the "body."
However, come to us soon the inevitable question: what to do with the existing legacy of times with a large oversized? ... In part, the answers are in the same article.
Then we leave them with a literal reproduction of the article in Skfandra and signed by Rosa Chandía Jaure.
hope you enjoy it.
way of expanding the city limits of the city of Santiago de Chile. We wonder, what is the appropriate scale for a city to be habitable? Thinking that the city operates as a machine that requires a constant flow of raw materials and energy supplies, the scale must find the best balance between the requirements for habitability, comfort of the inhabitants, and the availability of resources supplying the city and its persistence over time. This means addressing the issue from the territorial aspect, environmental and social.
From the standpoint of environmental and land, the metabolism of the city should move their resources flow into this one, with the production of energy, raw material and water needed to cover all claims, and should take charge of the generated wastes once they enter the system resources. However, today the city should be injected from the outside, even at great distances, all the resources you need, and After use, expel waste, damaging the environment for productivity. Food, depends on agricultural lands and livestock disposal, water runoff depends on which source moves kilometers to enter the city. The historical record shows us that there is no town without a periphery that is capable of supplying and maintaining resources in time. As stated Clive Pointing (1992) is significant that in the region where it first developed the idea of \u200b\u200burbanism, with the first ciudades_ Mesopotamia, on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers _, wherever also comprise a history of the first major environmental crisis, which resulted in an acute process of desertification, which became the fertile valleys in the high desert we know today.'s reflection Antonio Alero (1999) shows that the idea of \u200b\u200bmodern urban planning, which involves the unlimited expansion of the city in pursuit of progress, accompanied by a gradual desertification of land that provide energy and materials, as it produces an excessive exploitation of agricultural lands that end in a steady deterioration of productive land. For this reason it is essential to the design of the city considering the need to annex territory operate effectively and in a manner that ensures the future availability of resources to meet all demands inhabitants.
Now if we see the city from the social point of view, we should ask ourselves what would be the scale that allows the inhabitant to experience the city, what is the distance at which it moves, how have resolved their daily activities in an area around the city allows at such a rate, you can enjoy the events that occur within it. This means, that is not the same going from home to work the car, with air conditioning and the radio on, feeling the city as an entity external to the life of its own, purely urban space built that helps us the car we move from one point to another of the city, no matter what happens outside of it during the course of the trip. Different is moving from home to work at a distance that can living, that is, ignoring the world of his own car, and using means of transport that require us to interact with the space and recognize every street and place to which we are moving. walk or bike, allow us to appreciate the city a high speed, it is impossible to ignore, it appears the air, looks, announcements, a cafe on the road, a shop, square, people walking to pets, people walking on the sidewalk seating, trees on the sidewalks. The city is becoming livable, thus habitable.
Plaza de Catalunya, Barcelona. Livable urban space.
advocates expanding the area of \u200b\u200bthe city, cited as an example of developed cities to Los Angeles, a city with one of the largest urban areas of the world and are ideal Life is constantly promoted through cinema, the press and television. The truth is that the city requires that the displacement between a point and another is similar to teleportation, where the only important thing is where I am, and where I have to, necessarily rise to the car to move, regardless of the route carried out or events that are experienced along the way. This model city, is an individualistic model, which breaks up the urban life. This model is not even necessary to plant trees on sidewalks because people do not walk, just move into the private world of the automobile, and the city itself does not exist, there are only points Start and finish in a urbanized area, which by the way, to exist, requires a lot more energy and resources in cities that have the same development, but in a denser urban area, controlled, and more imbued with information. As the periphery is not supplied with the equipment and services necessary to supply the inhabitants of the immediate environment, they become dependent on the automobile as the primary means of transportation. María Elena Ducci (1998) warns us that this model of car-dependent city leads to the disappearance of the casual meeting places, which linked or not to trade, have underpinned the emergence of ideas and projects of civilization human. The real problem of growth of the city is not resolved with the expansion but rather taking charge of the micro-areas within it, that rather than urban settings within a city, This configuration of neighborhoods, as in Mediterranean cities like Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere people, probably working in an area near your home, and virtually all service requirements of a resident, are resolved within a few distances can experience the city, therefore, get better quality of life, less energy and resource consumption, and the overall result a diverse city that does not need expansion to achieve development.
Bldv Cienega Street Intersection. with W3D St., Los Angeles, USA. The distances between one point and another are vast and empty of information.
City of Barcelona. Next to 4 times larger, the city of Los Angeles.
References:
Alero, Antonio. (1999) Desertification and Urbanization: The failure of utopia. Electronic article is available at: http://habitat.aq.upm.es/boletin/n9/aaale.html
Ponting, Clive (1992) Green History of the World. Paidos.
Ducci, Maria Elena (1998) Santiago, "an oil slick without end? What happens to people when the city grows indiscriminately? Available at: http://redalyc.uaemex.mx/redalyc/pdf/196/19607205.pdf
Until next time, take care and be happy.
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