Tensions and convergence: contemporary urban design as an alternative to urban sprawl

Over the last three decades, the discipline of urban design has been experiencing a phenomenon revealing a more comprehensive and sustainable conception of urban growth, becoming a real and feasible alternative to sprawl. This phenomenon is expressed in the emergence and progressive convergence of u...

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Hoofdauteur:	Mawromatis, Constantino
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Gepubliceerd in:	Revista INVI 2013
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spelling	oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-625362016-07-26T17:29:44Z Tensions and convergence: contemporary urban design as an alternative to urban sprawl Tensiones y convergencia: el diseño urbano contemporáneo como alternativa a la ciudad dispersa y difusa Mawromatis, Constantino Over the last three decades, the discipline of urban design has been experiencing a phenomenon revealing a more comprehensive and sustainable conception of urban growth, becoming a real and feasible alternative to sprawl. This phenomenon is expressed in the emergence and progressive convergence of urban trends derived from different approaches; these trends share a proactive attitude towards the achievement of better cities and have resulted in experiences that act as alternative models opposed to the inanity of suburbia. This paper aims at identifying and contextualizing this phenomenon from a historic perspective by recognizing the diversity of its components and understanding the similarities that can be drawn from each approach. The presence of seemingly irreconcilable conceptions of urban design, as the ones championed by the neo-traditional tendencies and the ones focused on innovation, has led to ongoing theoretic debate on parallel paths that rarely converge. However, specialized literature and some paradigmatic new towns increasingly reveal the concurrence of principles that may confirm this phenomenon as evidence of the strengthening of the discipline within a sustainability framework. Durante las últimas tres décadas se viene manifestando en la disciplina del diseño urbano un fenómeno en construcción que apunta hacia una concepción más integral y sostenible del crecimiento de las ciudades, con proyecciones de poder constituirse en alternativa real y viable respecto a la expansión urbana descontrolada. Este fenómeno se expresa a partir de la emergencia y progresiva convergencia de corrientes urbanísticas que se originan desde distintas aproximaciones y que tienden a coincidir sin embargo, en una actitud proactiva respecto al logro de mejores ciudades; corrientes que han derivado en nuevos referentes que se instalan como alternativas a la inanidad de los loteos residenciales. El presente artículo tiene por propósito identificar y contextualizar históricamente el fenómeno planteado, reconociendo la diversidad de las partes que lo componen, pero comprendiendo a la vez la lectura común que puede extraerse de cada planteamiento. La existencia de caminos aparentemente irreconciliables en las nuevas concepciones del diseño urbano, el de la recreación o adaptación del pasado y el de la anticipación del futuro, ha llevado la discusión teórica por sendas paralelas que, rara vez confluyen; no obstante, se evidencia crecientemente en la literatura especializada como también en algunos casos paradigmáticos, la concurrencia de principios que confirmaría el fenómeno como parte de un fortalecimiento de la disciplina en un marco de sostenibilidad. Revista INVI 2013-07-08 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62536 Revista INVI; Vol. 28 Núm. 79 (2013); 125-163 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62536/66488 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62536/66480
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title	Tensions and convergence: contemporary urban design as an alternative to urban sprawl
title_short	Tensions and convergence: contemporary urban design as an alternative to urban sprawl
title_full	Tensions and convergence: contemporary urban design as an alternative to urban sprawl
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title_full_unstemmed	Tensions and convergence: contemporary urban design as an alternative to urban sprawl
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description	Over the last three decades, the discipline of urban design has been experiencing a phenomenon revealing a more comprehensive and sustainable conception of urban growth, becoming a real and feasible alternative to sprawl. This phenomenon is expressed in the emergence and progressive convergence of urban trends derived from different approaches; these trends share a proactive attitude towards the achievement of better cities and have resulted in experiences that act as alternative models opposed to the inanity of suburbia. This paper aims at identifying and contextualizing this phenomenon from a historic perspective by recognizing the diversity of its components and understanding the similarities that can be drawn from each approach. The presence of seemingly irreconcilable conceptions of urban design, as the ones championed by the neo-traditional tendencies and the ones focused on innovation, has led to ongoing theoretic debate on parallel paths that rarely converge. However, specialized literature and some paradigmatic new towns increasingly reveal the concurrence of principles that may confirm this phenomenon as evidence of the strengthening of the discipline within a sustainability framework.
publisher	Revista INVI
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