Nuevas miradas al urbanismo contemporáneo
- Autores: Carmen Díez Medina, Francisco Javier Monclús Fraga
- Localización: Biblio 3W: Revista Bibliográfica de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales, ISSN-e 1138-9796, Vol. 22, 2017
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
The aim of this paper is to introduce a book which represents a methodological alternative for the common handbooks of urbanism. It offers useful materials to reconsider the nature and role of contemporary urbanism, given that traditional paradigms are in crisis. Therefore, rather than traditional descriptions, the book offers a panoramic perspective that better mirrors the complex and fragmentary understanding we hold of the world today is more relevant. Our starting point is that urban planning and design result from a combination of discipline traditions, focuses and cultures. For that reason, we have pursued a historical and thematic approach to bring together the visions of an architect and an urbanist, and those of a historian and a theorist. This is the origin of these ‘urban visions’ that have shaped our cities and the variety of landscapes they entail supported by many discourses, strategies and techniques. Ultimately, new views of the urbanism that highlight the importance of engaging strategies linked to resource management, political impact and respect for the geography and landscape , if we intend to live in a more sustainable world and with more urban quality.
