The City And The Problems Modern Urbanism

The city and the problems modern urbanism

Modern urbanism with all its pros and consThis work will focus, we will know the current position of modern urbanism, who originated it and what triggered.

This essay takes as a premise the documentary seen in class of "the human scale", based on the urban planning problems that some cities around the world suffer.

Jan Gehl Danish architect, inspired this documentary, since he has dedicated much of his life to improving urban life by reorienting the design of cities to the pedestrian and cyclist, first, contrary to what is customary or used to in past times,In doing so for the car.

Starting from human history, the modern crisis began to gesture from the wars of the twentieth century. Until then, modernity seemed so firm and safe, but began to crumble within his own idea (will to indefinite progress, dominance over nature through the absolute social autonomy of man) bringing with him problems and conflicts.

All economic, political, social and philosophical equivalents with which modern culture, or modernity has been identified, are not only processes historically constituted as urban, but also have their space for development in the urban world and produce a cultureown urban. This can be clearly observed that each city along the planet, all these factors with which modernity is identified, are present almost in the same way. Modernity has set aside the user by keeping the economic sector, the politician, etc.

, focuses on what produces or leaves the most, treating people as a constant change.

Subsequently, what the architects would seek in the second half of the twentieth century would be a transformation in human life forms and a complete renewal of cities. Because they thought that architecture was called to find the conditions of possibility and existence of society, these conditions would be based on the fact that technology with its increased boom could solve all the practical and aesthetic problems that modernity proposed, being beingThus, all social development options were in the hope of the rationality of the industry and the potentials contained in production (today we see that this plan did not result as it was raised).

A banner of the modern movement would be the world -famous architect Le Corbusier. This Swiss Franco architect is considered one of the clearest exponents of modern and most influential architecture of the twentieth century. He had great influence when the so -called "principles of modern urbanism" were formulated: these principles will be typical of functionalist urbanism.

The effect that the Le Corbusier project would have on the future of the development of urban planning is based on two outstanding aspects of his thinking;On the one hand, he considered the mass increase of the traffic raised as a priority problem to design and redesign large cities, and on the other hand, the existing relationships of industry facilities and residential areas, forcing a project for a city for a city for a citymodern-industrial, to the separation of these same.

In short, Le Corbusier wanted or had a vision of modernism to prioritize the industry, this was doing the action of Zoning, placed in one place the place or region where the residences would go and on the other hand placed the industrial zone and as the onlyAccess, highways and roads through the most popular and most interesting transport, which was the car.

Planning among all its meanings, urbanistically speaking, is the synthesis of rational logic, imposed by modernity in key. This was a "new" concept which were working, being that this is nothing new and that it was known, but without applying or taking into account.

The fundamentalization of planning as the most important disciplinary drift of modern urbanism then appears as one of the great triggers of the Baroque city crisis. The approach of social sciences and the search for disciplinary autonomy by urbanism caused, as already suggested, a distancing with the architecture and mastery of the demands that the scientific foundations brought with them. With the desired autonomy and urgency for having scientific foundations and procedures, modern urbanism was running a real risk of being reduced to a discipline locked within its own scientific veracity, which completely ignored the relevance of socio-socio-processes and elementsSpace.

It did not matter if planning was constituted as the concept of reference of modern urbanism, the multiple failures in the implementations of plans in different cities of the world brought with them an exploitation of skepticism around its effectiveness within the real urban realities.

What we understand as postmodernity leads us to other discursive paths of the urban world, in which it is represented as the characterization of a new contemporary way of life, but marked at the same time by the remnants of the past and which has as its greatest field of action thecity, with which something new will emerge and will be known as postmetropolis. This is as a variation of issues related to the restructuring generated by economic crises and unequal development that have been modeling urban space since the birth of urban industry and modernity.

In recent decades the modern crisis and its relationship with urbanism, it is being and will be extremely important, since architects, urban planners or people responsible for sectorizing or doing the master plan of what cities will be like, as well as their extensions orsectors remodeling, they are not doing so in the right way, they are not focusing on what should be focused, which is, the individual or the person.

The person goes out to eat, to work, to have fun and relax, or well that is what is supposed to do (relax). In recent years it has been seen how an intolerant society is being done, with lack of touch towards other people, which leads to anger, discomfort, discomfort. The lack of public or private spaces to be able to socialize, is what is needed to achieve a better inclusion to which we have at the moment.

The architects, engineers, urban planners have the task of giving solutions to all these adversities or bad habits that they themselves have generated over time, also the political and economic part has great influence on the processes carried out to the city.

One of the most important points for modern urbanism, as mentioned above, is the exponential growth of the car, more and more, people need a car to transport, since their residence area is located too far from their placeof work, which flatly forces to build more and more highways, thus consuming crucial spaces for the urban context.

Unfortunately, this trend at least in the country that will be the main economic power worldwide, which is China, will not decrease, the most populated country on the planet, it is thought that it has 5 times more cars that were counted in 2014.

All this translates as the loss of customs in that country, although generating a much greater economic gain with which it had just 20 years ago.

As the city increases, the effort to move towards a point in the same city increases considerably.

In the nineteenth century even in cities with large conglomerations of people you could eat, sleep, work and even die right there. Today extremely marked trends indicate that cities increasingly incite permanence. Since the 70s and 80s (although since the last time it began to gestate), it has been much more imposed on flows, to constant change and rapid adaptability than to permanence in a state or place;The endless search for people to seek work, the survival of others less fortunate.

This mentioned above refers to the term "bedroom city", which does not refer to more than people live in a different place than where to work, either in another surrounding city or on the periphery of the same city. People are transported daily to work and when they move to their place of origin in their homes, it is already night, so they only get to sleep.

This is progressively damaging society causing discontent and disconnection of the same people with your environment or community. Thus creating a crisis in which the vast majority of people who are living in cities that are too large or overpopulated, live with an insecurity, intolerance and lack of touch with others. Continuing with the same, the same cities do not more enjoyable the issue of modernity, not creating adequate spaces for the same people.

The increase in bedroom cities has not fought the disappearance of economic and social inequalities among its inhabitants, but these types of contrasts are increased, fragmenting society, this happens especially in underdeveloped countries, with large indices ofInsecurity As already mentioned, more a high rate of poverty, pollution (of any type), road congestion, unemployment and disappearance of green areas. We can cite 2 examples of bedroom cities, speaking at the local level (Mexico):

• Ecatepec
• Nezahualcóyotl

Where you can see all the deficiencies already described in this type of places. Today, Nezahualcóyotl and Ecatepec have remained with the highest index and the greatest demographic potential in the country, with a high degree of urbanization;Between 99 and 100%, Nezahualcóyotl remains the municipality with the highest population density in the country, while the second continues to consolidate as the most populous municipality of the entity.

Going from the background of what was initially to modern urbanism, going through what it represents today and what has caused, several things are rescued to take into account: the modernist model that was intended in Silgo XX is obsoleteWhen we compare it with the way of being and the way of behaving of people, not to design based on the way we can move, but we must design in which we all feel part of everything, that we form aTotal inclusion, we must not classify.

You also have to be part of all this to nature, seeing it from a sustainable point, that matters a lot, it helps to create a healthier city. In the same way we must put aside the car in a gradual way, without disappearing it, but without paying the attention to which it is given today, seeing it from a sustainable urbanly sustainable point of view, it would greatly reduce energy resources and even more important, itgives more prominence to the user.

Now with the consequences of modern urbanism such as bedroom cities, a solution to which we could face is to invest in these same cities so that they themselves have their own economic center and thus, a good part of the population would avoid migrating dayWith the metropolis day in search of money, little by little the same cities can be self-sufficient. There are many solutions, now, the way of applying it and that one or the other works, will depend completely on the context in which we are located.

The individual is first, their problems must be known, then raise solutions and then execute them. We are still in time to reverse all this "crisis" that we are going through, that our resilience helps us to generate a change for better.