Urban Planning and Sustainable Development in The 21st Century, Conceptual and Management Issues

World Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences Symposium 2016

Santander, Arturo Azpeitia^1 ; Garai-Olaun, Agustín Azkarate^2

Built Heritage Research Group (GPAC, UPV/EHU), CIEA Lucio Lascaray, Avd. Miguel de Unamuno, 3., Vitoria-Gasteiz

01006, Spain^1

UNESCO Department on Cultural Landscapes and Heritage (UPV /EHU), CIEA Lucio Lascaray, Avd. Miguel de Unamuno 3, Vitoria-Gasteiz

01006, Spain^2

关键词: Conceptual frameworks;    Environmental quality;    Information society;    Legislative frameworks;    Material substrates;    Regulatory frameworks;    Social transformation;    Sustainable resources;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/44/3/032005/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/44/3/032005

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Urban areas in historic cities resemble a living organism that evolves in parallel to social transformation processes, shaping the material substrate that expresses identity and collective memory. In the twenty-first century, exponential population growth, globalization and the information society have resulted in many of these socio-economic processes accelerating, with consequences that we are not yet able to discern in their entirety. In this context, cities need to adapt to the general dynamics of urban development by incorporating the environmental, economic and social aspects of the "sustainability paradigm". With good planning, urban heritage is a key sustainable resource that needs promoting as part of the existing territorial competitiveness in a scenario marked by an increase in rivalry between cities. This requires the development of a conceptual framework that, based on a global, holistic and integrative approach, covers equity and social justice, respect for human rights, the gender perspective, public health and environmental quality, among other aspects. In this sense, the purpose of this paper is to study the concept of landscape applied to urban planning in greater depth, paying special attention to the analysis of the notion of Historic Urban Landscapes from a critical point of view, since the economic pressures arising from the reality of today's globalized world pose a serious threat that hinders their custody and protection, complicating this new comprehensive approach: how to bring this new systemic and transversal concept to the current regulatory framework in order to achieve real legal protection and effective governance models in urban areas? What should be the acceptable limits to ensure that "managing this change" does not result in public spaces being at the service of the interests of financial capitalism? These, along with many other questions, make the work of the professionals in charge of urban conservation more challenging in their aim to establish a sustainable dialogue to clear the complex equation between historical city and development. With a view to try to answer these and other questions, this paper sets out need to design comprehensive urban policy and legislative frameworks coordinated, and sets out proposals regarding the development of acceptable change limitation methods and indicators, and the application of the concept of buffer zones to the conservation of urban heritage that can become the basis for urban management policies and models.