Espacio y Desarrollo (Apr 2008)
Hacia una planificación urbana sistémica. Una experiencia universitaria de aprendizaje y aplicación de nuevos instrumentos técnicos en la planificación urbana tradicional
Abstract
In view that the relations of ecologic effects overflow the limits of the traditional academic training on planning, the methodological models used are not longer adequate to solve problems; then there is a need to significant changes in the professional training of future architects and planners. Systemic urban planning is called to play a more important role not only in city management but in its hinterland connection. Universities play an important role in providing an adequate training to this end. Thus, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism, National University of San Agustin, Arequipa, Perú, there is the course Urban Planning 1, where the students are being introduced to the systemic thought within the urban planning. The main objectives are to provide a conceptual basis towards a systemic planning and a sustainable urban design; to introduce the students in urban planning within a general concept of «Preventive Urban-environmental Planning», that is, urban planning with vision to the long run, based on landscaping plans, able to prevent and reduce the environmental impacts, that were able to articulate all results in a land use plan and have enough flexibility to undergo a permanent spatial analysis and allow planning oriented to sustainable development projects.
